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Gaffes and Spoofs
You all remember the Fat Finger? It’s a gaffe, trading-style. In one 2014 instance, if the record can be believed, somebody in Japan accidentally tried to buy $700 billion of stocks including more than half the total outstanding shares of…
View pageThe Little Short
In Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, a collection of eccentrics finds a flaw in real estate securities and shorts them. The movie is great, the book even better. Somebody will write a book about the 2020 stock market (anyone?) flaw.…
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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…
View pagePower 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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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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