Asset bubbles are notoriously difficult to identify as they are happening. Often times, they only become clear in hindsight.Having said that, Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin offers an interesting stock market chart in his team’s new US Quarterly Chartbook.It shows the sector composition of the S&P 500 by market cap since 1974. As you can see, sector bubbles manifest when […]
Everyone seems to be jumping into the debate about high-frequency trading, now that Michael Lewis is peddling his new book, Flash Boys.Lewis contends that the stock market is rigged, and that the culprit is high-frequency traders. But not everyone agrees that they are to blame, or that the stock market is even rigged to begin with.Cliff Asness, founder of AQR […]
Since the 1980s, one of the most well-known and heavily used strategies among hedge funds and portfolio managers has been pairs trading.#-ad_banner-#Classified as a market-neutral trading strategy, pairs trades attempt to do away with the unpredictable up and down moves of the overall market that often take individual stocks with them. Instead, those who employ a pairs trade aim to […]
Do Fundamentals and Technical Analysis Still Matter?Companies / Investing 2014Apr 02, 2014 – 12:04 PM GMTBy: DailyGainsLetter
Mohammad Zulfiqar writes: Over the weekend, I met with a friend of mine. He’s been a stock market investor for some time now, and over the last few years—especially since 2012 and 2013—he has done phenomenally well when it comes to […]
In honor of yet another all-time high in the S&P 500, I have a quick question for you…If you had a spare $1,000, where would you invest it?If your answer has anything to do with the stock market, you’re in the minority.Shocking, isn’t it?A Gallup poll posed this question in a survey in January — shortly after the previous all-time […]
After the announcement of Michael Lewis’ new book (which I don’t have a copy of, and I am not asking for one), together with a variety of interviews, he declared that the stock market is rigged. This is a convenient finding that will gladden the hearts of many who have tried the markets and lost. The trouble is, there are […]
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The FBI is looking into the practices of high-frequency stock trading firms, adding to the scrutiny that is being placed on the practice.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.One way that high-frequency traders have gained […]
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