Market Structure Insights

July 12, 2017

Texas is booming. We road-tripped it June 28-July 6, giving y’all a break from market structure. We rolled the I35 corridor from frenzied Frisco north of Dallas, to Austin, now home to 950,000 people, to San Antonio, the fastest-growing Texas city last year, pushing 1.5...

June 28, 2017

Here’s a riddle for you: What’s long and short at the same time? Your shares, public companies (investors, the shares of stocks you own too).  You saw that coming, right.  The problem is you don’t know who’s long or short. Let me rephrase that. You...

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...

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