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Tim Quast is a fifteen-year Investor Relations veteran and founder and managing director of ModernIR.com, which parses and categorizes over a half-billion shares per week with its trading intelligence system, Equity Analysis.

March 17, 2010 How Do Equity Swaps Work?

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

You’re at your desk doing a last copy edit on the shareholder letter for the annual report. You glance at your daily trading, as IR folks do. You frown. You drink tepid Starbucks from yesterday and wince. For the third...[more]

March 3, 2010 Can’t You Be More Positive?

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

My lovely bride Karen said, “Maybe you should be less negative in the Market Structure Map.” Only fort-two and I’m turning into a grousing old goat! I doubt many of you would disagree that I’ve sniped about the state of the...[more]

February 17, 2010 What the Dollar and Blacksmith Bellows Have in Common

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

The derivative we need is a weather swap. The Winter Olympics would pay a premium for that spare snow lying around unused on the east coast. Speaking of derivatives, the dollar retreated today, and US equities rebounded. We all...[more]

February 9, 2010 Market Volatility

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC

What a blast we had in the high country skiing last week! But now, East Coast, we here in Denver would like our snow back, please. Everybody’s got an opinion on why the market is yinning and yanging. We, I believe uniquely...[more]

February 3, 2010 Beware Reporting Earnings in a Vacuum

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

We’re late this week for a good reason: skiing. We hit the Vail slopes today (and as the comedian said, “We’re here all week!”). See a couple shots off my Blackberry here and here. No new snow in awhile, but the crowds were...[more]

January 28, 2010 What You Should Know About Program Trading

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

A word on last week’s panels in KC (see Dick Johnson’s write-up at his superb blog linked below) and NYC about modern trading: Had a great time in KC and felt we effectively explained how different time horizons and purposes,...[more]

January 19, 2010 Risk and Naked Access

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC

Hope you enjoyed MLK Weekend! We were on bikes for the first time in Twenty Ten as temperatures tickled the high 50s Saturday and Sunday on Colorado’s Front Range. [more]

January 13, 2010 Trading 101

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

Thought for the day: “Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.” – Will Rogers Speaking of chaotic action, let’s review trading basics. We tend to think trading is buying and selling stock. To quote John Kerry, would...[more]

January 6, 2010 Sizing Up Twenty-Ten

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

Happy New Year! - I grew up in the Snake River Breaks northwest of Boise. In tiny Huntington, where I quarterbacked the eight-man high-school football team, a guy ahead of me several years achieved local fame at middle...[more]

December 30, 2009 Three Days of the Iron Condor

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

We’re back after a refreshing one-week break! Here in Denver we packed the house with visitors, the kitchen with delicacies, the slopes with our skis, and our bellies with generally excessive consumption. Good thing reality...[more]

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