As anti-Trump protests stretch into their seventh day – and racial hate crimes are reported on the rise alongside protestor arrests – the search for who is behind the protests continues. This weekend Fox News doubled down on claims that international financier George Soros was directly behind the protests amid a lack of documentation to support the claim. The charge is being again emphatically denied by the Soros camp, adding to a previous denial on November 11.
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.
Oil's Downfall Aided by Rise of Fracking
Posted on May 20, 2016 by Ryan Vanzo
Earlier this year, oil prices fell to roughly 15-year lows, a global downturn for one of... read more
Another hedge fund will be closing down. Brenham Capital Management founder John Labanowski informed investors of his plans to shutter the nearly $700 million fund in a letter this... read more
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A report out of Bloomberg today elucidates the position of Phil Falcone's Lightquared and describes the position of Carl Icahn in the company's future. Icahn is a large holder... read more
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Not to be outdone by Los Angeles, which announced it was incorporating Tesla and BMW vehicles to patrol its streets, police in Sydney, Australia will be driving even more... read more
Siegfried Eggert of Grizzly Research presented his thesis for a small cap at ValueWalk's fourth Contrarian Investor Virtual Conference. He describes the company as a "perpetual" and "egregious pump... read more
Visitors to “WallStreetBets,” the Reddit forum where “YOLO” is the war cry are used to making and watching traders take high risk, high reward bets on stock prices. These... read more
