Electronic Trading, Prime Brokers And IR If your stock acted crazy on Thursday October 11th, you were not alone.As a refresher, ModernIR tracks trading volume (execution), which is the opposite of stock surveillance (settlement data). We catgegorize the execution data to identify the forces at work in equity trading. If the equity markets don’t surpass early October highs, we think the source of the rupture will be traced to trading on...... Similar Editorial : The Electronic Stethoscope by lynter. | Source : Buying A Timeshare
Optional Chaos, Investor Relations And Institutional Selling 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? First, we believe institutions abandoned the orderliness of prime brokerage...... Similar Editorial : Optional Auto Insurance Coverage by Christian Rios. | Source : Transportation Asset Management
Investor Relations, Global Markets And Reg Nms There are the three reasons why market structure matters to IR practitioners: right answers to questions, right places for IR time and effort, right IR measurements. Let's look at how options expirations apply to these actions. Last week saw the expiration of monthly options. At ModernIR, we noticed that overall market structure changed in advance on Monday October 15. We also saw how global...... Similar Editorial : Public Relations by Robert A. Kelly. | Source : Transportation Asset Management
Investor Relations & Determining Stock Risks 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 be that benchmarking potential price...... Similar Editorial : Public Relations by Robert A. Kelly. | Source : Transportation Asset Management
Stock Market Structure For Investor Relations Professionals In today’s electronic trading environment, traders and investors alike react to market structure. In general terms, Market Structure means the number, size, kind and distribution of participants in a market. Quantitative trading is popular and successful because it manages risk through mathematical analysis of market structure. Results? Fundamental and quantitative investors alike manage...... Similar Editorial : Investor Relations by Tim Quast. | Source : Apollo Investment Corp
Stock Marke Surveillance In baseball, a player who can bat .333 is destined for the hall of fame. However, baseball's measure of excellence does not apply to investor relations where IROs and CFOs polled for the October issue of CFO magazine gave their surveillance firms a 29% batting average. In order to assess shareholder identification efforts, CFO magazine, in conjunction with NIRI, surveyed a large number of investor...... Similar Editorial : Surveillance Art by Pierre McLean. | Source : Apollo Investment Corp
