Evanston Capital Management Wants In On HFT / Market Making Strategies

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Mark Melin
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Fund of fund hedge fund manager Adam Blitz isn’t likely surprised at the surge of hedge fund closures in 2014. In a Bloomberg Briefs interview, Blitz outlined his core investment thesis based on the lack of talent in the hedge fund community and noted with interest arbitrage and relative value strategies, many of them discussed in the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis. “Our thesis is we do not think that there are a lot of great hedge funds out there,” he said.  What are the appropriate number of funds?  The fund of funds manager said he strives for no more than…

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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.