Today, we’ll concentrate on what happened last week when the markets were shelled by broad-based institutional selling. Our sample data showed anonymous electronic order flow accounted for 42% of all trading Nov 5-9 and an astonishing 69% of volume on Nov 8. What happened, why does it matter, and what’s to be learned, IROs? Looking [...]
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Investor Relations, Optional Chaos And Institutional Selling
December 14th, 2009 
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December 11th, 2009 Admin We are constantly refraining the three reasons why market structure matters to IROs – right answers to questions, right places for IR time and effort, right IR measurements. Now, let’s apply options expirations to these hooks. Last week marked monthly options expirations. We noticed that overall market structure changed in advance on Monday October 15. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: American Markets, Answers To Questions, Arbitrage, Broker Dealers, Economic Concerns, Equity Values, Global Markets, Global Stage, Increments, Individual Market, Investor Relations Efforts, Liquidity, Little Pieces, Market Gurus, Market Structure, Measure Results, Santa Ana Winds, Structured Products, Transactional Nature, Whack No Comments »Investor Relations: Determining your Stock’s Downside Risk in Rugged Markets
October 22nd, 2009 Admin Boo! That’s our Halloween surprise.Speaking of surprises, do you try to quantify downside risk in your stock resulting from either marketwide technical shifts or specific Street disappointment? We are not saying rising oil futures, gilded gold prices and the sudden cachet of commodities traders should scare you. Nor or we saying they shouldn’t.It used to [...]
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