In Control
This is what Steamboat Springs looked like June 21, the first day of summer (yes, that’s a snow plow). Before winter returned, we were hiking Emerald Mountain there and were glad the big fella who left these tracks had headed…
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Rate of Change
Every investor and public company experiences volatility – the rate of change in prices. So every investor and public company should come to the market with a baseline grasp on what others do about the rate of change in prices.…
View pageRusselling Stocks
We’re back! At the NIRI Annual Conference last week in Phoenix (where foliage defied fiery environs) we launched an ad campaign for investor-relations professionals that graced the escalator wall into the hall, and the ModernIR booth hummed. I had the…
View pagePhones and Wristwatches
Numbers matter. But not the ones you think, public companies and investors. For instance, the best sector the past month is Utilities, up 3.5%, inversing the S&P 500’s 3.5% decline over that time (a 7% spread trade, we could say).…
View pageJekyll and Hyde
Your stock may collateralize long and short Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) simultaneously. Isn’t that cognitive dissonance – holding opposing views? Jekyll and Hyde? It’s akin to supposing that here in Denver you can drive I-25 north toward Fort Collins and arrive…
View pageEuripides Volatility
Question everything. That saying is a famous Euripides attribution, the Athenian playwright of 2500 years ago. The Greeks were good thinkers and their rules of logic prevail yet today. Let’s use them. Blue chips dropped over 600 points Monday and…
View pageDragon Market
As the market fell yesterday like a dragon from the sky (Game of Throners, the data are not good on dragon longevity now), 343 companies reported results, 10% of all firms. Market fireworks were blamed yet again on tariff fears.…
View pageThe Vital Day
Which is the most important trading day of the month? “The one when my company reports results,” you say. Good guess, and you’re usually right. Not this time. It’s the last day. Yesterday was it, the vital day of April,…
View pageDriverless Market
Suppose you were human resources director for a fleet of driverless taxis. As Elon Musk proposes streets full of autonomous autos, the market has become that fleet for investors and investor-relations professionals. The market drives itself. What we measure as…
View pageMelting Up
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink sees risk of a melt-up, not a meltdown for stocks. Speaking of market structure, I’m a vice chair for NIRI’s Annual Conference – the 50th anniversary edition. From the opening general session, to meeting the hedge…
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