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.
Collision: Negative Rates, Deteriorating Growth And Soaring Debt by IceCap Asset Management
The trouble with tribbles
Hitting warp 9.8, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 was screaming through space. It’s goal – hitting... Read More
In a recent report Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) published research on Post-Crisis World Economy which draws on some of their past research to conduct a rapid-fire tour of some key... Read More
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Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University is one of the most foremost authorities on the topic of Behavioral Economics, and... Read More
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Conquering Misperceptions About Commodity Futures Investing
Claude B. Erb
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Campbell R. Harvey
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
August 20, 2015
Abstract:
Three fundamental misperceptions... Read More
Christoph Gisiger, Finanz und Wirtschaft
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