Goldman Sachs Wavefront Economic Analysis Hunts For Economic Shocks

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Mark Melin
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Goldman Sachs economics researchers have engaged in an ambitious project to apply “Wavefront” macro economic analysis onto fundamental economic performance drivers and then reveal trading and investing ideas for what is an oddly shaped market environment at present. Wavefront looks for economic shocks With the stock market throwing around 100, 200 or even 300 point gains and losses in early 2016, it does appear the statistical anomalies are correlating with predictions made by the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve and several bank, hedge fund and independent research: 2016 has lived up if not exceeded expectations for volatility. With the odd numeric…

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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.