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Tim Quast ColumnsTim 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.
July 7, 2008 Market Structure Map - July 7-11: Primary Dealers, Naked Shorting and Cash EquitiesWe’ll call this the 7-11 edition of the Market Structure Map because it covers July 7-11 and because we’re here for your convenience and open early and late (Note to 7-11 corporate lawyers: lighten up, you people). [more] June 23, 2008 Market Structure Map - June 23-Jul 3: Russell Rebalance and Retreating International MoneyWe’re back after a week off acquiring the first sunburn of the season at The Boulders Resort north of Scottsdale AZ. We endorse nearly every single thing about that place, tucked under the Fountain Mountains and south of Cave...[more] June 16, 2008 Market Structure Map - June 16-20: Options Away…and What of Regional Broker Dealers?Lest you grow weary of hearing about options expirations, we’ll say only that trading last week (June 16-20) reflected little fundamental investment and lots of speculation, with expirations running Monday (S&P 500 long-dated)...[more] May 27, 2008 Market Structure Map - May 27-30: See Us at NIRI in San Diego Next WeekIf you’re attending the annual NIRI conference in San Diego, stop by booth 222 and see us! We’re not giving away, oh, flights on the space shuttle. But in sharp contrast to politicians whose promise of change is the same old...[more] May 19, 2008 Market Structure Map - May 19-23: Just What Do You Mean…Arbitrage?We’re out Wednesday due to Memorial Day on Monday. For those new to the Market Structure Map, holidays delay clearing processes, so data at the Nasdaq and NYSEnet was a day later this week.[more] May 12, 2008 Market Structure Map - May 12-16: New ModernIR.com Look – And Changes in Order Flow TooWe’re two days late this week because it’s been busy-busy. So let’s catch you IR folks and execs up. We’d warned of market volatility through 5/21, thanks to a spate of options expirations ranging from the 2009 LEAPS conversion...[more] May 5, 2008 Market Structure Map - May 5-9: Plot Your Sellside Outreach By Following Order FlowWe're coming round to the last spate of sellside conferences before summer in Nantucket. When weighing where and how you spend sellside time, don't forget to measure order flow.[more] April 28, 2008 Market Structure Map - April 28-May 2: Program Trading Strategies Changing Sooner NowBefore we get to program-trading resets and why you should care about them, IR folks and execs reporting to shareholders and boards, have you looked at your "liquidity fundamentals" lately? They're way less accounting-department...[more] April 21, 2008 Market Structure Map - April 21-25: Portfolio Transition Management Goes ElectronicThe Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones indices both abruptly changed courses April 21-22, reversing gains the three preceding days during monthly options expirations. Related to the end of another expirations period? Or the equity...[more] April 14, 2008 Market Structure Map - April 14-18: You Know CDOs - Ever Heard of CFDs?Last week (4/14-18) gave us dwellers at the Sierra foothills a batch of chilly coastal air and dragged the equity markets through a gaggle of monthly options expirations (as most of you know who read here regularly) and the first...[more] |
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