Bloomberg Pronounces The Early Death Of The Traditional Long-Short Hedge Fund...
Bloomberg has apparently just taken it upon itself to pronounce the early, unceremonious demise of the traditional Long/Short Hedge Fund model after seemingly declaring that stocks will continue to...
View ArticleCBOE Bitcoin Futures Trading To Begin On Dec 10th - Not All Brokers Enthused
CBOE Global Markets said on Monday it would begin trading its bitcoin futures contracts, known as XBT futures, next Monday, and will offer free trading for the rest of the month to help draw in traders...
View ArticleJapan's Plea To Millennials: Please Buy Stocks
Ever since the Federal Reserve first got into the business of blowing massive equity bubbles back in the 1980's, Americans have shown a willingness to happily, if ignorantly, embrace each successive...
View ArticleSigns Of The Peak: Former Target Manager Makes Millions Day Trading...
Every market bubble brings with it harbingers of the peak...it's all very complicated and technical but you too can find them if you just know where to look. In 1999, it was your drunk neighbor who...
View ArticleBlockchain: Enter Google, Exit BitCoin?
The Path Forward for BlockchainBlockChain is Fracking, Lateral Drilling, and Globex All Over AgainBefore reading please note, these are general musings based on observation and experience. No trade...
View ArticleDemocratic Senate Candidate Evan Bayh Represents Everything Broken, Corrupt...
Submitted by Michael Kriger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Whether participating in glittery dinners with heads of state, or tête-à-têtes in the Oval Office, Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow...
View ArticleAmericans Have Been Turned Into Peasants – Time To Fight Back?
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,America used to be the land of opportunity and optimism. Now opportunity is seen as the preserve of the elite: two-thirds of Americans believe the...
View Article"America's Equity Markets Are Broken" Yale CIO Admits "Rigged Markets" Hurt...
Authored by David Swensen (Yale CIO) and Jonathan Macey, Op-Ed via NYTimes.com,America's equity markets are broken. Individuals and institutions make transactions in rigged markets favoring short-term...
View ArticleBTFD "Is Coming To An End" JPM Warns, As It Lowers Equity Allocation Most In...
Year end is usually a time when Wall Street strategists, so close to that holiday bonus check they can practically smell it, break out optimstic forecasts for the next year and tell their clients to...
View Article"Desperate" Novice Trader May Be Suicidal If He Didn't Cover: KBIO Short...
Our post yesterday about the "devastated" novice E-trader Joe Campbell, who went to bed on Wednesday night with a $18K short position in the biotech pennystock KaleBios, only to wake up with a $106K...
View ArticleMOMO Rules: In A "World Of Disappointments" Trade Like An Idiot, Citi Recommends
In a "world of disappointments", where beta is king and where alpha has become a joke (or, now that equity is a risk-free asset and debt is risky, is outright punished) where growth no longer exists,...
View ArticleMorning Has Broken: A Deep Dive Into The Trading Patterns Of The American...
By Nicholas Colas of ConvergexMorning Has BrokenIntraday U.S. equity market volatility has been high throughout this week’s turmoil, and today we look into one specific reason: retail investors’...
View ArticleFlash Crash Alert: Navinder Sarao Granted Bail, To Leave Prison Today
While day after day, we get news about dark pools and HFTs openly and flagrantly rigging markets whether it is ITG or Credit Suisse, or any and every other HFT boiler room outfit, criminally...
View ArticleVapor Capital Asset Mismanagement LP: Jon Corzine Planning Hedge Fund Launch
Shortly after Jon Corzine not only destroyed MF Global but "vaporized" $1.6 billion in supposedly segregated client funds which were illegally commingled with operating cash, Jon Corzine had a brief...
View ArticleEinhorn Slams Bernanke's Blog, Says Fed Policy Is A "Destructive Force That...
It's getting serious for the academic hacks who meet every two months in Basel to drink $5000 bottles of wine and regale each other with their stupidity, most of whom have never held a job outside of...
View ArticlePeak Central Planning: BofA Says Fed's Dudley "Does Not Want Stocks To...
Yesterday we got the latest confirmation of what the Fed will never openly admit and which everyone knows. Or rather, the Fed would never openly admit previously, namely that all it cares about are...
View ArticleFrontrunning: March 27
Google's new CFO to make $70 million (WSJ)Senate passes Republican budget with deep safety net cuts (Reuters)With Yemen strikes, Saudis show growing independence from U.S. (Reuters)Banks Slash...
View ArticleMeet "The Wohl Of Wall Street": The Inland Empire's Own 17-Year-Old Hedge...
A decade ago the Inland Empire was known for having more real estate agents than any other profession, because "making money in real estate was so easy, anyone could do it." Now it's the rise of the...
View ArticleFrontrunning: March 11
Fed Likely to Remove ‘Patient’ Barrier for Rate Increase as Soon as June (Hilsenrath) - which year?Clinton says used personal email account for convenience (Reuters)Euro sinks to 12-year lows as yield...
View ArticleNow On The Endangered Species List: Bond Traders
The topic of collapsing bond market liquidity (and in many cases, volume) is not new: it has been covered here for over 3 years, as we observed the amount of 10 Year equivalents soaked up by the Fed...
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