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Archaea Capital’s 5 Bad Trades To Avoid Next Year
Excerpted from Achaea Capital‘s Latter to Investors, Blind faith in policymakers remains a bad trade that’s still widely held. Pressure builds everywhere we look. Not as a consequence of the Fed’s...
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Futures Up In Light Volume On Renewed ECB QE Hopes As Crude Slides Again
While the last trading day of 2014 will be important if only to see if Dow 18,000 can be recaptured on what is sure to be the lowest volume in years, don’t expect much help from Brent which continues...
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How BATS Will “Improve” The Market For Thinly Traded Stocks: Stop Trading Them
As Nanex's Eric Hunsader pointed out, while the well-paid HFT-lobbyists proclaim their rigging clients "knit together liquidity from all markets," it appears BATS' new CEO (since the lying old one...
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“Hedge!!”
Submitted by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, Q: How do you make a small fortune on Wall Street? A: Start with a large fortune. ~ old investing adage Last fall, I wrote an article titled Defying...
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Growing Concerns Over Tomorrow’s Leap Second
Tomorrow at 8pm, we’re adding an extra second to the day. Over the past 200 years, the length of a day has increased by two milliseconds, which is all well and good, but the insane accuracy of the...
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Similarities Between China’s Stock Market Crash And 1929 Are Eerie
Submitted by Money Morning's David Zeiler via Contra Corner blog, For students of history, the China stock market crash looks eerily familiar. It’s playing out much like the Wall Street stock market...
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“Project Omega”– Why HFTs Never Lose Money: The Criminal Fraud Explained
Two weeks ago, without knowing the details of the most recent market-rigging and frontrunning scandal involving “alternative” market veteran ITG’s dark pool POSIT, which issued a vague 8-K it would...
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Hillary Pushes HFT Tax (A Day After BlackRock Warns Of “Wild Price Swings”)
Following yesterday's flip-flop on TPP, Hillary Clinton has unleashed some new financial system 'policies' this morning, the most crucial of which includes the provision of a transaction tax which will...
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Spoofer Complains About Spoofing, Is Ignored, Starts Spoofing, Gets Busted,...
In light of Blackrock’s Hillary Clinton’s sudden interest in taming high frequency trading and imposing a fee on order cancellations, something we have said is imperative ever since 2009 and now is far...
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BlackRock, The Stock Market, & The Alleged Evils Of “Volatility”
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, The Alleged Evils of “Volatility” Whenever there is talk in the popular press or in the mainstream financial press about “heightened volatility” in the...
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“People Are Worried”– Chinese Authorities Arrest ‘King Of IPOs’&‘Hedge Fund...
The arrests or investigations targeting the finance industry in the aftermath of China’s summer market crash have intensified in recent weeks according to Bloomberg, creating a climate of fear among...
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Singapore Market “Glitch” Sends Stocks Soaring
It appears ‘officials’ in Singapore have discovered what US officials know very well. The best way to stop selling pressure is to stop trading and so, as FinExtra reports, with STI beginning to weaken...
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“Champagne Supernova”– IceCap Asks What Happens When The Bond Bubble Finally...
Submitted by Keith Decker of IceCap Asset Management Don’t Look Back in Anger ENGLAND (Knebworth Park, 1996) – Owning the front of the stage, Liam Gallagher closed his eyes and liked what he saw....
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Another Market Descends Into Chaos: “It’s Madness. The Market Makes Major...
While that is indeed the quoted lament of a living, breathing market participant, it does not refer to what takes place in the stock or – increasingly more often – the bond or FX market. Instead, what...
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In Ominous Sign For Banks, Equity Trading Revenues Continue To Drop
It’s not just the HFT industry that has cannibalized itself so much, while spooking regular traders out of the markets, there is hardly any revenue growth left (as the WSJ showed last week). After...
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The Globalist One World Currency Will Look A Lot Like Bitcoin
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, This week the International Monetary Fund shocked some economic analysts with an announcement that America was "no longer first in the world" as a major...
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Gavekal On The Coming Clash Of Empires: Russia’s Role As A Global Game-Changer
Submitted by Charles and Louis-Vincent Gave of Gavekal Research Carthago Est Delenda “Carthage must be destroyed”. Cato the elder would conclude his speeches in the Roman Senate with the admonition...
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China’s Plunge Protection Team Holds $150 Billion In Stock, Claims “State...
It was two years ago, in June of 2015, when just as the Shanghai Composite was flirting with 5,000 and when literally the local banana stand guy was trading stocks, that the Chinese stock bubble burst,...
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