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.

March 6, 2009 What to do When Cheap Shares Keep Getting Cheaper

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To borrow words from Sean Hannon at Seeking Alpha (see link at bottom): a basic tenet of value investing is that every asset is attractive at a certain price. As Mr. Hannon observes, using that rationale values would seem lately...[more]

February 19, 2009 New NYSE Euronext Liquidity - Feb 9-13

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Ironically, it’s very windy today in Denver as the president consigns a huge lump of present debt to future generations, something Thomas Jefferson described as “immoral.” [more]

February 12, 2009 Feb 2-6: What is High-Frequency Trading?

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Before we get to high frequency trading, in light of market performance today here’s an Aristotelian prefatory note on the bailout: [more]

February 10, 2009 Jan 26-30: How Month-end Portfolio Transitions Work

Source:Tim Quast, Managing Director,ModernNetworks IR LLC

First, a tip of hats to Jay Davis, head of IR at Macquarie Capital Funds, who wrote us after our Market Structure Map two weeks ago: “…Rather than developing bony fingers, I might argue that, in addition to having the answers...[more]

January 30, 2009 Jan 19-23: Is Speculative Trading on the Rise?

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Rooting around in what’s behind price and volume, we’re reminded of a movie scene.[more]

January 21, 2009 Jan 12-16: Of IR Expenses and Program Trading

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On this Inaugural Day in the United States, we’re reminded of a favored passage from the address occasioning Thomas Jefferson’s second term, delivered March 4, 1805: [more]

January 14, 2009 Jan 5-9: Time for New IR Terms and Measures

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There’s much to mystify us today, from the basic meaning of life, to the “Peso Problem,” to how anyone can conclude that more spending solves a spending problem (calls to mind the alcoholic who told his doctor, “I don’t have a...[more]

January 8, 2009 Dec 29- Jan 2: Money Moves to US Equities Tim Quast

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Happy New Year! And thank goodness those work-hindering holidays are behind us for another year. Enough sitting around watching chestnuts roast and eggnog steam. We’ve got work to do! [more]

December 24, 2008 Dec 15-20: The Last Map of 2008

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We’re about to shut down the double monitor and sled off in search of festive seasonal cheer! We’ll be back for real, flicking on the lights and stoking the fire and the coffee maker January 5. Meantime, one parting 2008 thought:[more]