“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 just submitted an article about this to Seeking Alpha, so if they publish it, I’ll link to it here [Update: it's been published: "Gold Gets Hammered"]. But in the meantime, here’s a tl;dr version:
I wrote the two articles linked to below last month. They proved to be good timing. After writing the second one, [...]
I wrote this on August 4th, “Why you should consider hedging if you own gold“.
And this follow up Monday night (published yesterday), in which I noted that the hedging costs mentioned in the first article had doubled: “Gold goes parabolic, hedging costs rise“. I took that spike in hedging costs as a bearish signal, and [...]
On 07.01.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Culture, Musings memories and observations, Short positions, hedging, by David Pinsen
Portfolio Armor update
I met with the finance Ph.D. who devised Portfolio Armor’s algorithm yesterday to discuss some potential expansions of the algorithm. More to come on that. If you have any feature requests, feel free to mention them in the comments.
June was another record month for paid downloads of the Portfolio Armor iOS app, [...]
On 06.09.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Long positions, Short positions, Technology, by David Pinsen
Portfolio Armor update
The finance academic who developed Portfolio Armor’s algorithm successfully defended his doctoral thesis and now has his Ph.D. He and I plan to meet later this month to discuss adding the capability to Portfolio Armor to hedge short positions with calls (should be doable) and potentially adding collar capability (will require some preliminary [...]
On 05.19.11, In Investing, Long positions, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short positions, Technology, hedging, by David Pinsen
In a post elsewhere last week (Revisiting a Losing Market-Neutral Trade), I mentioned a market neutral trade where I got stopped out of the short side for a loss. I got stopped out of the short side of a more recent market neutral trade (Short TRGL, Long IMO) for a gain, but I missed an [...]
On 05.12.11, In Investing, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short Selling, Short positions, by David Pinsen
This is a specialty chemical market neutral trade. More details at the link.
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