Archive for May, 2011

  • Where Are Those Winners Hiding?
    Posted by on May 28th, 2011 at 9:41 am, Comments: 0

    Via Indexed HT Ritholtz As I got more deeply involved in markets, I wanted to quantify stock attributes in order to filter out the ones [...]

  • Waiting on Thrust
    Posted by on May 25th, 2011 at 8:24 am, Comments: 0

    Not much to say, the market is still languishing.  Don’t care much about that; what I care about is the lack of an overdone spike [...]

  • Once Upon an IPO
    Posted by on May 21st, 2011 at 10:58 am, Comments: 0

    It was 1998, and as far as I was concerned the NASDAQ bubble was popping.  Something called theglobe.com was coming public weeks after the wicked [...]

  • Beta, Meet Alpha
    Posted by on May 18th, 2011 at 11:23 am, Comments: 0

    I’ve spent the last few weeks racking my brain to find the themes on which to guide my allocations.  While the hare to tortoise movement [...]

  • The REAL Consumer Confidence Read
    Posted by on May 14th, 2011 at 3:43 pm, Comments: 0

    The coming week is one of my favorites of each quarter.  While part of my focus will be on managing the premium left in short [...]

  • One Way to Deal with Trading Temptation
    Posted by on May 12th, 2011 at 8:53 am, Comments: 0

    Robert Sinn wrote a great piece on handling a market transitioning from one state of volatility to another.  Given the implications of the end of [...]

  • Clearing the Way for GARP?
    Posted by on May 7th, 2011 at 8:55 am, Comments: 0

    I’ve been chirping about this short momo/buy boring for a few weeks now, but questioning where the next crop of leaders would emerge.  It’s been [...]

  • Adjusting to the Flow
    Posted by on May 3rd, 2011 at 3:27 pm, Comments: 0

    I’ve been thinking about this lately, and enjoyed seeing a favorite trader/blogger write on the subject today.  Peter Brandt shared a fantastic post on the [...]