Market Structure Insights
November 14, 2012
“Why is our stock underperforming the peer group?” Ever got that question from your CFO or CEO? We hear it too. Speaking of questions, if you’re in Atlanta come throw them at the panel on High Frequency Trading for NIRI’s chapter breakfast, Friday Nov 16...
November 8, 2012
Will markets collapse? We’re a day late this week, steering clear of election bipolarity marked by the vicissitudes of demography and the barest palimpsest of republicanism, a diaphanous echo of Madison and Jefferson and Hamilton, names people now think of as inner city high schools....
October 31, 2012
Boo! What a Halloween week. To our many friends, clients and colleagues on the Atlantic seaboard assailed by Hurricane Sandy, we in Denver are rushing sunshine your direction. Exchanges are hoping for sunshine too as trading resumes. It hinges on opening auctions. That gives us...
October 24, 2012
How do you prove relativity? When Einstein proffered the preposterous suggestion that all motion is relative including time, people clearly had not yet seen Usain Bolt. Or what happens to stocks after options-expirations when the spread between the dollar and equity indexes is at a...
October 17, 2012
Let’s go to the tape. That’s what we hear in sports now, especially football. Send it to the replay booth. Forget the referee’s call. We’ll check frame-by-frame and – yes, see, right there, his pinky finger holding the ball broke the goal line. TD! I’m...
October 10, 2012
Have you seen that car commercial with the bearded guy? The car chimes when you should check the tires. To drive the point home, as it were, we viewers see our bearded fellow getting hired and, as the new boss extends a hand, going overboard...