Market Structure Insights
February 4, 2015
Let me go. I don’t want to be your hero. Those words strung together move me now viscerally after seeing the movie Boyhood, in the running at the Academy Awards, as I write, for best of the year. I’m biased by the video for “Hero” from...
January 28, 2015
The teeter-totter with the moving fulcrum never caught on. The reason is it wasn’t a teeter-totter, which is simple addition and subtraction, but a calculus problem. The same mathematical hubris afflicted much talk surrounding US economic growth last autumn when it seemed things were booming...
January 21, 2015
I’ve learned lots about politics the last couple weeks. In June 2014, SEC Chair Mary Jo White said: “We must evaluate all issues through the prism of the best interest of investors and the facilitation of capital formation for public companies. The secondary markets exist...
January 14, 2015
Terra firma. In Latin, “solid earth.” Two thousand years ago people thought Latin would be the lasting language of commerce. History disproved that thesis, but the notion of a firm foundation remains. In stock-trading, however, the ground relentlessly crumbles as prices shift in illusion. The...
January 7, 2015
Happy New Year! We trust you enjoyed last week’s respite from the Market Structure Map. Now, back to reality! CNBC is leaving Nielsen for somebody who’ll track viewer data better. Nielsen says CNBC is off 13% from 2013. CNBC says Nielsen misses people viewing in...
December 24, 2014
As Christmas Eve arrives in the US, market-structure circles are abuzz on tidings from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent of the NYSE, about bold market reform. Is it the birth of opportunity or a winter fable? In case you missed it, word broke last week that ICE...