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Verve and Sand
The whole market is behaving as though it’s got an Activist shareholder. In a sense it does. More on that in a minute. We track the effects of Activism on trading and investment behaviors both before it’s widely known and…
View pageA Rational Market
The market appears to have become the Walking Dead. I don’t mean a collection of bodies reduced to bloody pulp by a barbed-wire encased baseball bat. That would be the Presidential election. (Aside: you who watched the new Dead episode…
View pageVolume and Interest
In the five trading days ended Oct 17, 49.1% of average daily stock volume was short. “Wait, what?” you say. “Half the stock market is short?” Yes, that’s right. Short volume last topped 49% marketwide in mid-April. The market glided…
View pageMarket Serfdom
Last week a stock strategist said passive investment is worse than Marxism. That’s a way to get attention at risk of offending Marxists. It did (get attention). CNBC covered it. Jason Zweig did too in the Wall Street Journal weekend…
View pageA Year Ago
In Luckenbach, Texas, ain’t nobody feeling no pain. We were just there and I think the reason is the bar out the back of the post office. A country song by that name about this place released in 1977 by…
View pageLow Spreads
What keeps stocks going is low volatility. By seeking only to earn the spread on each transaction and not bet on the direction of markets, you can make money close to 50 percent of the time. This one sentence from a…
View pageTrivago and Traders
I was high-frequency traded by a travel site. Had that happen? You web-search a place and pricing and there’s no availability for the date you want so you check elsewhere and suddenly there’s vacancy – but now it costs more…
View pageGilding the Trend
Is index-investing the death knell for investor relations? According to S&P Dow Jones – which, you REITs, will be breaking out your sector from Financials Aug 31, as will MSCI – over the ten years ended Dec 2015 a staggering…
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