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.
July was the worst month for oil prices since the financial crisis. The price of WTI crude plunged 21% during the month, the worse single-day decline since 2008. Unfortunately,... Read More
This week’s newsletter really ought to start with a mea culpa. Like most others, I didn’t see Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market coming. In reporting the... Read More
Some long - short hedge fund returns emerge as winners while others struggle in early 2016. As the HSBC hedge weekly performance ranking once again shows a managed futures... Read More
Meson Capital Partners LLC, headed by Ryan Morris, has been shorting Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc (NASDAQ:OMEX) since the end of October last year, and it looks like the hedge... Read More
Today the European Central Bank announced that it would scale down its giant bond-buying program while extending it deep into 2018. This gradual taper is designed to put the region... Read More
This is part two of the first of a weekly, exclusive, ValueWalk interview series. Throughout this series, we will be publishing weekly interviews with up-and-coming value-oriented hedge fund managers.
This... Read More
Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham by The Investors Podcast
In the foreword of Security Analysis Warren Buffett says that it’s one of the books that have changed his life. It’s... Read More
IEX Group announced Wednesday that it has raised $75 million from firms such as Bain Capital Ventures and Spark Capital, and the funds would facilitate its efforts to become... Read More
SAIC, Inc. (NYSE:SAI) is up almost 4.5% today to $12.34 in response to the company’s announcement that it will split into two public companies. SAIC, Inc. (NYSE:SAI) is a major... Read More