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Reality Disconnect
In 1975, there were no electronic exchanges in the United States. Now the average S&P 500 component trades electronically 17,000 times daily in 134-share increments totaling a mean of $500 million of stock. Yet public companies still have a 1975…
View pageBeneath the Surface
I don’t think it should be overlooked that “Quants” and “Quasts” differ by only a letter. Scott Patterson’s 2010 book, The Quants, is a great read. You’ll be riveted by what was cascading beneath the market’s surface before the financial…
View pageInteresting Year
“It’s going to be an interesting year.” We wrote that phrase in the Jan 2, 2019 edition of the Market Structure Map. (By the way, we’re in Rhode Island this week visiting customers, and in Newport you’ll see the sea…
View pageWhy Traders Trade
Albert Einstein reputedly quipped that compounding was the 8th wonder of the world. What would he think of negative interest rates? The 10-year German government bond yield is -0.61%. The Rule of 72, which nobody mentions now, says dividing 72…
View pageYet Arrived
Bula! That’s Fijian for “greetings!” You say it “boo-lah.” Fiji is among the friendliest places on the planet. Karen and I are just back from the South Pacific, as this compilation illustrates. Do you know it’s traditional in Fiji to…
View pageUnstoppable
Any of you Denzel Washington fans? He starred in a 2010 movie loosely based on real events called Unstoppable, about a runaway freight train (I have Tom Petty’s “Runaway Train” going through my head). In a way, the market has…
View pageThe Canary
For a taste of July 4 in a mountain town, featuring boy scouts serving pancakes, a camel amongst horses, sand crane dancers, and Clyde the glad hound, click here. Americana. Meanwhile back in the coal mine of the stock market,…
View pageFlying Machines
While France roasts on both the heat of the US women’s soccer strikers and mother nature’s summertime glow, in Steamboat Springs Lake Catamount sits alpine serene, and it was 46 degrees Fahrenheit (about the same read in Celsius in France)…
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