Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
Notes To Adam Smith's Book, "The Money Game" by Redfield, Blonsky & Co.
April 11, 2007
I recently read 1976 edition of "The Money Game," by Adam Smith. For me, this... Read More
Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, told Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on "Bloomberg Surveillance" today that "there is no safe haven…The best you can... Read More
The Folly of Blame: Why Investors Should Care About Their Managers' Culture by The Journal of Portfolio Management
Jason Hsu, Jim Ware, and Chuck Heisinger
Many industry observers would agree with... Read More
Jim Chanos, the hedge Fund legend and apparent history buff, compares many of the events happening in Europe today to those that were occurring in the 1930s ( pre... Read More
Chou Associates Management Inc. filed its 13F for the quarter ended 30th September 2013 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulatory filings show that Chou Associates increased its... Read More
Big Oil credit goes to Rigsource Inc. for this article.
How Big Oil took over the oil market
The term “economies of scale” might as well have been invented for the oil... Read More
A Performance Summary Of Previous Studies Analyzing Benjamin Graham's Net Current Asset Value Stock Selection Criterion by Victor Wendl, Wendl Financial
The table below is a summary of various studies... Read More
“Davidson” submits:
Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
The CNBC commentary, from a long time NYSE trader, is “investors worried Fed has lost control of rates…markets” as rates rise.... Read More
Quality, Value And Momentum In North America +962% Over 13 Years by Tim du Toit, Quant Investing
On 1 November 2014 in an article with the title Quality, value, momentum... Read More