Market Structure Insights
June 21, 2017
The days are getting shorter. We’ve passed the longest one of 2017, Summer Solstice. Imperceptibly now the sun will move off its zenith. Karen and I marked it here in Minneapolis before the NYSE’s Rich Barry and I talk market structure for the Edison Electric...
June 14, 2017
Florida reminded us of high-speed traders. I’ll explain. An energized audience and the best attendance since 2012 marked NIRI National, the investor-relations annual confab held last week, this year in Orlando. We spent the whole conference in the spacious and biggest-ever ModernIR booth right at...
June 7, 2017
EDITORIAL NOTE: Whew! It’s 11pm here in Orlando (this view just off the patio at Highball & Harvest, The Ritz, Grand Lakes), and NIRI National, the annual confab for investor-relations professionals, has wrapped. The bars at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton Grand Lakes are...
May 31, 2017
We’re back from the Belizean reef, living like pirates among the stars. Refreshing! When your home is this, and your view is that, and sweet critters are resident below, even I can forget about market structure. But not for long! While we sailed with phones...
May 17, 2017
“What’s eye are? I haven’t seen that acronym.” So said a friend unfamiliar with this arcane profession at public companies responsible for Wall Street relationships. IR, for you investors who don’t know, is the role that coordinates earnings calls and builds the shareholder base behind...
May 10, 2017
I’ve seen at least four Wall Street Journal stories in May alone about a quiescent VIX. The CBOE’s volatility index derived from options pricing on the S&P 500 hit a low Monday last seen in Dec 1993, the WSJ said (subscription required). It moved lower...