Trading

• The Summer Trade
  Posted by Jeff Carter on June 18th, 2013 at 8:48 am, Comments: 0

  The Fed meeting is this week.  Everyone is waiting to see what they will do.  Other than that, the only news is the continuing Obama [...]

• Can Corporate America Innovate? Only If They Solve Problems For Customers
  Posted by Jeff Carter on June 14th, 2013 at 8:53 am, Comments: 0

  Recently, I have been thinking about and exposed to the idea of corporate innovation.  Yesterday, there was a series of snafu’s at O’Hare which caused [...]

• Get Used to Volatility
  Posted by Jeff Carter on June 12th, 2013 at 8:09 am, Comments: 0

  After a nice sustained rally this year, the market seems to be having second thoughts.  When markets turn, there is a lot of volatility at [...]

• The Politicians and the Ratings Agencies are Behind
  Posted by Jeff Carter on June 10th, 2013 at 1:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Was on the Santelli Exchange on CNBC today.  I thought Josh Brown had a nice post last week, and I echoed those sentiments.  Smells like [...]

• Today’s Unemployment Number
  Posted by Jeff Carter on June 7th, 2013 at 7:40 am, Comments: 0

  US Unemployment Rate data by YCharts The number that will come out today is just a tick on a chart.  It’s not a trend, it’s [...]

• Has CME Finally Broken the Curse?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 31st, 2013 at 7:20 am, Comments: 0

  If you have owned $CME stock since 2007-08, you have felt some pain.  Performance has been woeful.  Macroeconomic effects didn’t help-and government regulation didn’t help-and [...]

• Which Vertical Should You Invest In+Why The Stock Market Still Has Legs
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 29th, 2013 at 7:20 am, Comments: 0

  A week ago, I listened to a presentation from the Corum Group.  They are in the business of helping startup executives sell their companies.  Each [...]

• Gary Gensler of the CFTC: Thinks He Should Be King
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 28th, 2013 at 9:46 am, Comments: 0

  Regulators should be like the best referees at a sporting event.  They are there to make sure that things are played by the rules, but [...]

• Why Let Bloomberg Snoop on You?: YCharts Has A New Look
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 14th, 2013 at 8:07 am, Comments: 0

  The Ycharts team recently changed their offices.  They are growing and needed some new digs.  While they were at that, they changed their landing page. [...]

• 500 Startups: Risk vs Reward, Do VCs Execute?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 13th, 2013 at 7:37 am, Comments: 0

  An article I linked to in the Breakfast Links was on Dave McClure and his 500 startups organization. If you haven’t met Dave McClure, or [...]

• Bloomberg Snooping on Its Customers-Try YCharts Instead
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 10th, 2013 at 9:40 am, Comments: 0

  Bloomberg got caught with it’s hand in the cookie jar.  On Glenn Reynold’s Instapundit blog, this story caught my eye.  Goldman Sachs ($GS) execs were [...]

• Follow The Hot Money
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 10th, 2013 at 7:00 am, Comments: 0

  One of the ways to make money in the market is momentum trade.  Plenty of people try it.  Richard Driehaus built an empire momentum trading. [...]

• TV Guests Always Talk Their Book
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 6th, 2013 at 8:54 am, Comments: 0

  Watching the festival of capitalism over the past few days on CNBC has been interesting.  It’s interesting because I truly think that Charlie Munger and [...]

• Can You Wait? Or Are You Frozen by Indecision?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 6th, 2013 at 7:25 am, Comments: 0

  Waiting is brutal for me.  I hate to wait.  Lately, it feels like all I am doing is waiting.  Waiting for this to happen.  Waiting [...]

• Unemployment, Co-Working and The Santelli Exchange
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 3rd, 2013 at 2:42 pm, Comments: 0

  Was on CNBC today.  Rick Santelli had me on his show today to talk about employment, the economy and we talked briefly about the future [...]

• HFT and Exploiting a Loophole
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 1st, 2013 at 8:33 am, Comments: 0

  The WSJ had an article on how HFT traders exploit a loop hole at the $CME.  Some shrug it off as if it’s no big [...]

• Corporations Are People
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 15th, 2013 at 8:58 am, Comments: 0

  This is one of the dumbest things I have read.  It’s a New York Times editorial.  Clearly, the author doesn’t have a clue about modern [...]

• The Wisdom of Crowds
  Posted by Jeff Carter on March 27th, 2013 at 6:29 am, Comments: 0

  There is a misnomer in the conversations that are taking place right now among people.  They are misapplying the “wisdom of crowds” theory from Hayek. [...]