Tim Quast Columns

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.

August 12, 2009 High Frequency Trading and August Trends

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

We wrote on high-frequency trading here in the Map February 10, before it got micro-blogged at Twitter, texted as “hft lol” (a little humor there), and spotlighted above the fold on page one of the Wall Street Journal. Town hall...[more]

August 5, 2009 The Return of Hedge Funds

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

Getting up to Keystone where the air is free of trading-data particles this past weekend got us centered again. Our job is what’s behind price and volume, so we can help IR folks run their programs with total coolness. We saw...[more]

July 23, 2009 Market Structure Map - Small Things Can Still Matter

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

We live at a time when people mistake majority rule for representation and it’s refreshing to find that the equity markets don’t buy into that form of tyranny. [more]

July 16, 2009 LEAPS over Bounds

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

Market Structure Map - Helping IROs understand short-term market structure to maintain long-term peace of mind. - July 14 is Bastille Day, and we Americans forever owe the French thanks for the youngster Yves du Motier, called...[more]

July 8, 2009 Market Structure Map - Look at Your Market Structure

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC

We celebrated the USA’s birthday at 9,000 feet in Vail, where fireworks fit for a stout Vail Village budget showered and boomed at length and in panoply from Gold Peak under a bright moon. The mountains were enriched this year...[more]

July 1, 2009 What Market Structure Says About Q309

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC

We like benchmarking the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which occurred Sunday, June 25, 1876. Thursday was the 133rd anniversary. There, the last free Native forces on the great American central plains had a final hurrah at the...[more]

June 24, 2009 Did A Market Strand Snap?

Source:Tim Quast,Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

If the three-strand cord that constitutes your price and volume braids rational investment, speculation and risk-management, which one just snapped? Anyone? Anyone? [more]

June 3, 2009 What Month-End Portfolio Cleanup Shows

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC

Reminder: we’ll be at NIRI National 2009 next week (see link below), so you’ll have a refreshing break from the Market Structure Map! Global trading may chime and flash at ever more frantic paces, sometimes seeming like a pinball...[more]

May 27, 2009 Are Leveraged ETFs Skewing Stock Prices?

Source:Tim Quast

We’re out late today, due to the Memorial holiday yesterday. And what a return to reality, huh? Dow up 200 today following a nuclear test in North Korea over the weekend. [more]

May 20, 2009 When Brokers Feint Left

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director, ModernNetworks IR LLC

Looking at equity-market activity last week during Part One of monthly options expirations (we don’t finish this cycle till tomorrow, May 20) reminded us of a cowboy saying that “timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain...[more]

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