The desk I run is an Institutional Long/Short Equity desk which tries to maintain a “market neutral” book. This doesn’t mean “buy 1000 shares of IBM and 10 puts”. What market neutrality means is that one need not be concerned about the overall direction of the market, as momentum traders are, but rather have long [...]
30-year Treasury Yields are about to spike along with a dollar rally. I feel this is the catalyst to trigger a sustained pullback in equities, which will reflect our rising unemployment rate and all the stimulus plans that are slowly phasing out. Equity Long/Short Market Neutral traders will have an edge in this market over [...]
Week of December 1 FRI:Can we bring on order mgmt. clerks to serve as my trading assistants? This would allow me to fully exploit my research. SPX likely headed for 800 then 760 IF 844 is broken decisively. JPM closed just above lower boundary of broadening d/t channel and above short-term downtrend suggesting rally could [...]
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