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Indexed

Is it good to be part of the collective? From Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek, polemics ring like swords and plowshares on anvils. But that’s not what we mean. When Vanguard in 1975 created the 500 Fund, many called it…

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Mini Me

Minis abound. You can trade fractions of shares. Heck, the average trade-size is barely 100 shares, and 50% of trades are less than that. Minis, as it were. There are e-mini futures contracts on the S&P 500 index, and the…

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Big Blanket

The US stock market trades about $500 billion of stock daily, the great majority of it driven by machines turning it into trading aerosol, a fine mist sprayed everywhere. So tracking ownership-changes is hard. And unless we speak up it’s…

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Power of Two

We’re coming to the end of two Coronavirus quarters. What happens now? In a word, July. As to what July brings, it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, winter down under. It’s also the end of a remarkable period in stocks.…

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Squid Ink

Is retail money creating a Pandemic Bubble? Sort of. Really, it’s Fast Traders turning those orders into clouds of squid ink. There are 47 million customer accounts at Schwab, Fidelity, Ameritrade, E*Trade and Robinhood. These big online brokers sell their…

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Benjamin Graham

A decade ago today, stocks flash-crashed. I’m reminded that there are points of conventional market wisdom needing reconsideration. It’s not because wisdom has diminished. It’s because the market always reflects what the money is doing, and it’s not Ben Graham’s…

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