First, let’s take a look at the markets for the initial week of December 2007. From our analysis it appeared that fundamental investors were most active December 4th, while trading lightened considerably by the 7th and carried the telltale signs of massive risk-management and hedging. For investor relations, this means real investors finally followed traders [...]
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Is Investor Relations Becoming Transient Like Trading?
January 11th, 2010 
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Tags: Analogies, Analogy, Aphorism, Big Picture, Diophantine Equations, Equity Positions, Gentle Whisper, investor relations, Ir Program, Last Bell, Market Structure, Maw, Metaphor, Overnight Rates, Public Equity, Risk Management, Telltale Signs, Term Business, Transience, Volatility 
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December 18th, 2009 Admin With the USA out getting stuffed last week, volumes dropped by half in the sample pool. Some things to consider. Three of Goldman’s trading desks made our Top 25 list of total issues traded, including its crossing platform and wholesale desk. Also Millennium Capital and other big derivatives desks made our Top 25 volume list. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Algorithms, Allocations, Cash Register, Deplorable State, Derivatives, Goldman, investor relations, Liquidity, Market Structure, Millennium Capital, Opportune Time, Pension Funds, Prime Program, Program Traders, Retail Business, S Trading, Trading Desks, Undercurrents, Wall Street Journal, Wholesalers No Comments »Investor Relations, Optional Chaos And Institutional Selling
December 14th, 2009 Admin 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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