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.
Elon Musk: Please Read Our Paper by Brad Cornell, Brad Cornell's Economics Blog
About six months ago, when Tesla was trading north for $250 per share, Aswath Damodaran and I... Read More
Last Friday shares in Horsehead Holdings Corp crashed by more than 91% after a judge approved the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring, bringing an end to months of uncertainty for... Read More
Marc de Kloe is Head of Alternatives Investments and Funds at ABN Amro Private Banking where he is responsible for funds and alternative investments including long only, hedge funds,... Read More
There has been a steady stream of encouragingly better news on the economic front from the U.S.A.
Retail sales were up 0.8 percent for the month of July, representing the... Read More
The S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) has fallen for nearly two straight weeks, even though companies on the index have been beating consensus 4Q EPS growth estimates by a fair margin. The... Read More
In the 2004 addition of Forbes Greatest Investing Stories it lists Ben Graham’s ten criteria for valuing stocks. While this is not intended to be a criticism, it’s a... Read More
For the fourth week in a row both hedge funds and private clients were net buyers of stocks while institutional investors were net sellers, that’s according to Bank of... Read More
Premier Exhibitions - Shareholders Question Premier Merger, Stunned That Chinese Graft Suspect's Daughter Sourced $1MM by Andrew Shapiro
Here is the latest article on the developing story on the questionably-sourced... Read More
Hedge fund managers are known to argue with pride at how their fund’s performance is filled with alpha, individual trader skill credited with performance, and dismiss the beta, impact... Read More
Single Market Beta: A Preference For Discomfort by Chris Brightman, Research Affliates.
Yikes is right! Investors continue to underperform the market by a significant margin, as Russ Kinnel of Morningstar reminds... Read More