Daily Self Help
We saw Gravity last weekend and like so many others I immediately thought of the equity market. Karen hates how movie trailers today tell the whole story (guess it saves one having to see films), so I’ll offer but a…
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Structural Distortion
“When I talk about this stuff with clients, they’re only half-listening until this phrase appears.” Thus spake my learned friend Jim MacGregor, at Abernathy MacGregor in New York City, whose views I hold in high esteem. “What stuff? What phrase?”…
View pageRebalancing Act
You can see what investors are doing. When indexes are rebalancing, NASCAR ensues. No, not a bunch of noise and southern accents. A race. On Sep 17 with kickoff of the Federal Reserve’s meeting last week, the top price-setting authority…
View pageStreet Level
“My CEO doesn’t get market structure.” I’ve heard that more than a time or two! IROs wanting executives to grasp market complexity in order to see share-behavior in an accurate and contemporary fashion run into the buzz saw of The…
View pageFollow the Line
“All this is not a product of nature.” No I’m not referring to the display, as it were, by Miley Cyrus at the Video Music Awards. If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, what do you…
View pagePondering Exchanges
In France we saw Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture, The Thinker. You know the one? A chiseled fellow (literally and figuratively) pondering in the nude. It’s good to sit down and think (no need to disrobe however). Why are you here?…
View pageBanks BARE All
Where have I been? Somehow, I missed the fun happening in SEC filings for large banks like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. If you already know what BARES are – Buffered Accelerated Return Equity…
View pageSwapping the Future
Whole swaths of stocks moved 3% yesterday. You might thank Dodd-Frank for it, even if David Tepper gets credit (if you heard the Appaloosa Management founder’s interview you know what I mean). To understand how, ever heard of a Rube…
View pageHired ETF Guns
I dare you. Ever say that as a kid? “I’ll give you a dollar if you—” (fill in the blank) Last week the SEC approved a plan by the NASDAQ for sponsors of ETFs trading less than a million shares…
View pageReality or Fantasy
Don’t forget to write your letters, folks! Which letters? See last week’s Market Structure Map on prompting the NYSE or the NASDAQ to file a rule for better data. Speaking of rule-filings, here’s an example. Last week ahead of an…
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