How to Win Enemies and Influence Markets
High-Frequency Traders are making enemies almost as fast as they make cancelled orders. Now that they’ve moved into the Forex markets, another front in the controversy has opened up. But if recent events are any indication, this fight may not end well for anyone involved.
Commodity ETFs Upping Their Game?
We keep regular tabs on a handful of long-only commodity ETFs, specifically how much these funds underperform the futures contracts for the same underlying commodity. But new ETF offerings are aiming to avoid some of the problems that have plagued such investments in the past. But the new approach is not without problems of its own.
EU Readying Finance Tax
The 2008 financial crisis brought quite a few ideas from the margins of financial thought into the limelight. Now, one of these ideas looks poised to enter into force in the EU: a financial transactions tax. Similar proposals have appeared in the US, but now it looks like some EU members are going to give us a live experiment of the idea.
Weekend Reads
Another week of 2013 has passed more or less without major incident. Surprisingly, Congress looks set to avoid a meltdown over the debt ceiling, leading some to declare that the era of crisis is over. If that’s not a contrarian indicator, we don’t know what is. With the VIX and multi-year lows, the stock market creeping slowly upward, and Washington, DC starting to sound like it’s inhabited by responsible adults, “bizarrely calm” doesn’t even begin to describe it. But controversy or no, we’re still stocked up on reading material for the weekend
Checking in on the Gundlach Spreads
Jeff Gundlach of Doubleline has been creating a stir with his big spread trade ideas lately. And while they definitely aren’t the traditional spread trade, some of his recent trading calls have turned out to be trends that managed futures can enjoy.
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