I haven’t read anything positive on Chinese stocks or the Chinese economy in ages. My friend Brendan Ahearn of the China-focused ETF company Kraneshares notes that there are a handful of potential catalysts for China bulls to latch onto in the near future: •          President Xi’s US visit which includes the Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent CEOs…

What if we’re heading to 15x?

The media focuses as much on which Presidential candidates are able to attract funding as they do on the issues of the campaigns. There’s a good reason for this – the candidates that can raise money are the ones who can stick around and have a shot at actually running in the general election. Scott Walker…

It’s been quite a whirlwind today as we announced some major news

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Fundamental analysts are constantly using technical analysis without realizing it.

At the request of so many investment advisors, my friends at Riskalyze share the big trends in the assets going into and coming out of advisor portfolios every week. The underlying data is aggregated from hundreds of thousands of client accounts across the $120 billion and counting that advisors manage on the Riskalyze platform*. I…

Think back to late 2011. So-called “1% days” in the S&P 500 – in both directions – became commonplace. Every headline from Europe had the ability to jack e-mini S&P futures up or down to a major gap opening. Volatility was elevated for a long stretch of time and heightened correlations across stocks and sectors…

The recent volatility took a lot of wind out of the sails of the active management camp as correlations reached levels not seen since 2011. In the new Goldman Sachs Weekly Kickstart, David Kostin and Co make the point that macro factors make it really hard to demonstrate skill when these episodes come along. Dispersion…

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