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.
Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2012 today. The company took in revenues of $1.08 in the first quarter turning that into an earnings... Read More
Of all the world’s great investors, Carl Icahn is perhaps the most feared and respected at the same time. Icahn started his life on Wall Street as a stockbroker... Read More
Warren Buffett's Wells Fargo Investment: What Are The Odds?by Sanjay Bakshi, via Slide Share
What Are the Odds?
“Take the probability times the amount of possible loss from the probability of... Read More
Baupost founder Seth Klarman told investors that the large amounts of stimulus that have been poured into the world's economies are masking the severity of the problems caused by... Read More
Single currency European investors haven’t pulled out of euro area bonds, but they have reduced their exposure to the EU periphery
As the standoff between Greece and its creditors continues,... Read More
Adam Smith continues to dazzle and sparkle! With the passage of time, Supermoney Adam Smith PDF  has, if anything, added to its power to inspire, arouse, provoke, motivate, inform, illuminate, entertain,... Read More
States With The Most Loan Delinquencies by Paul Sisolak, Credio
The United States national debt just reached $19 trillion. That's quite the hole, and American households aren't doing much better.... Read More
Dark Money’s New Frontier: State Judicial Elections (via Moyers & Company)
In America, we expect that our courts are fair and impartial — that their primary interest is to serve... Read More
Carl Icahn's attempt to push back the shareholder vote on the future of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) has been denied fast-track treatment in Delaware’s Court of Chancery. He is claiming... Read More
Buffett’s Alpha  Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller, and Lasse Heje Pedersen* First Draft: May 3, 2012  This draft: November 21, 2013
While much has been said and written about Warren Buffett and... Read More