How to Get Mark Cuban’s Money

Mark Cuban popped in for a talk at TechCrunch’s Disrupt San Francisco conference this past week. In addition to explaining why he’s so bullish on chat privacy apps like Cyber Dust, he also explains what it takes to gain his confidence as an investor. The first idea he talks about is arbitrage – meaning there…

Buybacks and Tradebots

Is anyone trading? Not really. Except HFT players and corporate CFOs executing the buybacks that generate their compensation packages. You got a 7%+ gain in the S&P this year on basically nothing and for no reason other than float-shrink initiatives that have zero to do with fundamentals. For every Disney, a company that is truly killing…

Investors: Ritholtz Wealth is Coming to DC!

On October 15th and 16th, my partner Barry Ritholtz and our director of financial planning, Kris Venne, will be in Washington D.C. meeting with clients of the firm. They’ve carved out some time to sit down with prospective clients as well, including a cocktail hour at a place and time to be decided. If you’d like…

QOTD: The Venture Bubble Becomes Undeniable

I have many friends and partners in the FinTech space and the stories they’re telling me about “being chased by money” are becoming more frequent and increasingly hilarious. “My board is begging me to do something,” they say, or “The venture guys want me to think bigger, they’re liquid to move on anything I say…

Chart o’ the Day: This is the Retest

Ari Wald, technical analyst at Oppenheimer Asset Management, is telling clients to remain constructive on the bull market given the intact-ness of the long-term trend. He sees the weakness last week as a retest of the breakout level, although he does advocate a more selective positioning in case the trend fails to hold. In other…

Three Reasons the Remainder of 2014 is About Loss Avoidance

The S&P 500 has hit Savita Subramanian’s target of 2000 and has since backed off (as markets are wont to do upon coming into contact with big, fat round numbers). Tactically, she suggests that locking in gains and being more selective wouldn’t be a bad idea at this juncture. The BofA Merrill Equity & Quant…

63 Percent of Americans Seek Financial Planning Advice

How big is the market for financial planning advice in the United States? Gallup is out with survey data which indicates that, overall, 63 percent of Americans have sought financial advice. Of that group, 74 percent – three quarters of the total – have sought out the advice of a professional. These findings are based…

This Week on TRB

These were the most read posts on the site this week, in case you missed them: How Aaron Klein and Riskalyze are Revolutionizing the Industry Snap Judgments of Tech Product Launches Crowdsourced Terror, Hyper-Competition and the Acceleration of Acceleration Investors acting rationally At least it’s gray Cartoon by Dan Wasserman, Boston Globe