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.
The Singapore tax authorities have issued clarifications regarding the treatment of transactions in Bitcoins, the virtual currency.
The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore responded to Coin Republic’s requests to clarify... read more
One-time bond king Bill Gross seems to have lost his way. The founder of Pimco, the one-time largest bond fund in the world, is known in part for his... read more
Active Share is a popular metric that purports to measure portfolio activity. Though Active Share’s fragility and ease of manipulation are increasingly well-understood, there has been no research on... read more
This is part four of a multi-part series on Jesse Livermore. One of the financial world’s most important historic figures, Jesse Livermore made a fortune as a market speculator... read more
Citi Research analysts Tobias M Levkovich, Lorraine M Schmitt and Christina Wood look at stock prices in the context of the real quality of recently reported earnings, earnings guidance... read more
JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) agreed to settle with U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over alleged credit card debt collections.
In its consent order, the OCC said... read more
There is speculation that Canadian Oil and Gas Producer, Nexen Inc. (NYSE:NXY)'s proposed $15.1 billion takeover by China's CNOOC Limited (NYSE:CEO) is likely to fall through, amid government interference.... read more
Investment thesis
This company has delivered a stellar performance since the beginning of this year, both financially and from a stock price appreciation perspective. The success of the company can... read more
CAPE: Predicting Stock Market Returns by Norbert Keimling via StarCapital H/T Meb Faber
In the past 100 years, equity investors have managed to generate real capital growth of an annual average some 7... read more