Hedging a High Yield Long Idea
In a post Wednesday morning (“High-Yield Long Idea Idea Continues Strong”), Tim Knight noted the continued strong performance of his long position in the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF JNK. Back in August, I looked at the cost of hedging JNK, but I thought [...]

Seeking Alpha published an article of mine touching on this earlier this week, but the tweet below and the chart that follows it illustrate the tl; dr version. Portfolio Armor was designed to help investors hedge, but other uses for it have emerged. One is as a warning flag for investors in securities with high [...]

Last month, I emailed the list of questions below to Alloy Steel’s CFO, Barry Woodhouse (disregard the emoticon; that should be the numeral “8″). I told Woodhouse I was planning to write a Seeking Alpha article about the company’s Q3 and was hoping to include answers to those questions in the article. After speaking with [...]

“Days to save the Eurozone”, then the big rally
A couple of days before Wednesday’s coordinated central bank action goosed global markets, Wolfgang Münchau wrote in his FT column (“The Eurozone has only days to avoid collapse”) that if the European summit on December 9th didn’t lead to an ambitious three part plan to [...]

– I neglected to mention this at the time, but I picked up a few more shares of AYSI on Thursday at $0.75. No new news on it, but when I saw it hit .75 I entered a limit order which was partially filled. This was my most recent Seeking Alpha article on the [...]

The email list widget over to the right, below the fold, on this blog used to be for those who wanted to receive emails about market neutral trades. Yesterday, I sent those on the list the email below, about new update