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.
Traditionally, gold is hailed as an inflation hedge as the general public and investor communities expect it to gather value during inflationary times. But the metal shows quite a... Read More
Bleecker Street Research’s short report on Retractable Technologies, Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:RVP) from ValueWalk's Contrarian Investor Conference on April 23 2021 .
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A new report titled “AI, Robotics and the Future of Jobs” says we should embrace a robot dominated futures and not worry about human displacement, but is also notes... Read More
For the past two years, analysts have continually predicted the death of the traditional oil industry as, thanks to new technology, the US shale oil industry grabs market share.
However, despite shale's... Read More
Prem Watsa is not very bullish on the economy; The Warren Buffett of Canada has been hedging against a large decline for quite some time. Watsa's Fairfax just released... Read More
Having spent a large proportion of my career prior to joining GMO working at investment banks, I’m well aware of what Andrew Smithers describes as “Stock Broker Economics,” the... Read More
In December last year, Alan Marcus, a shareholder of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), went to court against the company for its abrupt announcement in September of a common... Read More
It's no secret that this year has been a volatile one for the markets. The S&P 500 is down 18% year to date, while the Nasdaq Composite is off... Read More
The long/short Odey Swan Fund, managed by vocal hedge fund manager, Crispin Odey returned 3.9% for investors in June 2016, outperforming the MSCI Daily TR Net Europe return of... Read More
With earnings season taking a breather before next week's return, one topic that will be part of the conversation this holiday week is the release of today's Federal Reserve... Read More