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Grin and Bear It? The picture of market making may appear grim. But there...
...year-end. (A little more than half said the Nasdaq Composite Index would hit 2,500 and above in this period.) By contrast, last year's survey was conducted in the midst of...
Gathering Storm Clouds
...very dramatic change. Great Depression "The Conference Board CEO Confidence Index hit a 20-year low at the latest reading. Meaning it's worse than at any time during 1982. Now, I...
So Who Needs Profits?
...rounds of funding, the last coming on Jan. 1, 2000 for $40.5 million. Goldman Sachs, Index Venture Management, Mohr, Davidow Ventures and one undisclosed venture firm were the backers. A...
The Basket TradingTechnology Boom: Young Turks Pledge Faster Basket Executions
...or the Russell 2000, must buy and sell huge baskets. Periodic rebalancings, or portfolio adjustments necessary to stay in sync with changing index components, require big basket trades as well....
The Index Fund Trader
...the sole trader for the Kent Index Equity Fund, an S&P 500 mutual fund with some $900 million in assets. "I try to add value by beating the strike price...
Exchange Traded Funds Ride to Amex’s Rescue
...ETF is the Spider, which represents the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. There are 59 ETFs traded on the American Stock Exchange, up from 30 at the beginning of...
CooperNeff’s Bid For Blind’ Business Quant Shop Using Technology for Growth
..."rebalancing" portfolios to match changes in a stock index or shifting money between money managers. Seventy percent of the stocks are New York Stock Exchange names; the balance is in...
Cover Story: The Secret World of Hedge Funds: Forget about George Soros and Tiger...
...hedge funds worldwide are performing comfortably and showing renewed signs of vitality. The CFSB/Tremont hedge fund index posted a 3.7 percent return in June. That pushed the alternative investment benchmark...
Marriage on the Rocks?
...would likely have succeeded without the Nasdaq and Amex linkup. The ETFs are based on indexes from broad markets, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq 100 Index,...
Traders Tools For The Digital Age
...directional change (ADX), the directional moving index (DMI), and the relative strength of a stock to the S&P 500. Other features include alert messages and interactive charts. A trader can...
