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.
There is currently $1.7 trillion of cash on S&P 500 non-financial balance sheets and, according to a new research note from Bank of America, how corporate’s plan to spend... Read More
By Jon Clements
Market Vectors Russia ETF (NYSE:RSX) | LONG | Leap Calls 15 Jan 2016
Investment Thesis
RSX is a Russian large-cap ETF holding 48 companies with an average mkt... Read More
10 Ways To Beat An Index
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European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi’s recent comment that the ECB is ‘comfortable with acting’ in June if necessary to combat deflation, and his numerous promises to do... Read More
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Full notes of Fraser Perring, Founder of Of Viceroy Research, from the 2018 Kase Learning Shortselling Conference.
Please note this transcript may contain mistakes - this was done by a... Read More