So, which is it? If The White House chaos does not play an influence until all the sudden it does?
Category: Investing Insight
14
Aug
2017
Pascal’s Wager – Trump/Kim Nuke Style
We’ve talked in the past about Pascal’s Wager and simple decision matrices, and couldn’t help but think that today’s market rebound as the perfect example for why the VIX gets slammed off its spikes so frequently.
11
Aug
2017
Volatility…Is That You?
And just like that… the calm seas turned a little choppy. With today’s ~+40% jump in the VIX, volatility is back on everyone’s mind. It only took the threat of nuclear war to get investors finally willing to think stocks won’t always advance upwards percent by percent week after week. But this has to have […]
09
Aug
2017
Alternative Links: It’s a Crowded Quant World
In a world where every kernel of publicly available intelligence is quickly processed and acted upon, investing advantages can evaporate quickly. In quant speak, the alpha gets arbitraged away.
02
Aug
2017
Alternative Links: All About Volatility
That when people talk about the VIX they are almost entirely talking about recent realized volatility. But somehow, because the VIX is a current forward looking measure (really a type of price) people seem to attach more to it than that.
21
Jul
2017
Weekend Reads: Is Artificial Intelligence Biased?
Today’s infographic from explains the major differences between NYSE and the Nasdaq What is the Difference Between the NYSE and Nasdaq? – (Visual Capitalist) How it works: The client buys a private-placement life-insurance policy. The insurance company invests in alternative assets such as hedge funds. Profits, if any, would ordinarily be taxed as capital gains, […]
20
Jul
2017
Is Managed Futures Now Mainstream?
Chicago’s futures brainchild has become very New Yorkitized… with Wall Street product being created over and over again to get a foothold in the space.
12
Jul
2017
Why Everyone’s Trading Volatility
The evidence keeps mounting that more and more investors are trading the VIX these days, now seeing the fear gauge as a tool to generate returns, not just an indicator. Whether we’re in peak VIX mode or not – it was high time we wrote a whitepaper on all the ins and outs of volatility trading via the VIX.
26
Jun
2017
Wall Street has a Bad Rap with Millennials – Good Luck Fixing it
From our in-house Millennial – Blake Kelley. If you’re a millennial, you’re acutely aware that you’ve killed everything. Seriously, google term millennial and you’ll see article after article about destroying entire industries and thus life as we know it. It’s laughable. Here’s a small collection Buzzfeed put together: The financial industry is no exception. Wall Street […]
21
Jun
2017
Quant Funds share of the Hedge Fund Industry
These quants now represent 17% of the total hedge fund industry…. Good for about $300 Billion.
