Finance and Investment

In order to maximize profits and reduce risks, the position size should always be defined depending on the quality of a trading strategy. In the present issue we show how the method developed by John Kelly works and how you can test it in Tradesignal by using the supplied Equilla codes.

Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) dropped about 3.7% on Wednesday to post a new 52-week low of $6.25 against a 52-week high of $18.13. The stock closed at $6.75 on Tuesday night. Volume is roughly 20% below the daily average of around 19 shares traded. The company’s stock is likely reacting to a sixth loss in eight trading sessions for the yellow metal.

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The ISM index, at a lower-than-expected 51.1, is signaling the slowest rate of growth for the factory sector since May 2013. And the key details are uniformly weak.

McCulley worked closely with Bill Gross at PIMCO for many years, and was brought back to PIMCO after Mohamed El Erian stepped down. He coined such well known phrases as “Shadow Banking System” and “The Minsky Moment.”

High-frequency trading came to 11.34 billion shares between Jan. 4 and Thursday, or 37.1 percent of the trading volume recorded in the cited period, according to the data by the Korea Exchange (KRX).

United States Securities and Exchange Commission has successfully tracked out the company carrying out dark pool violations since more than a year. After a long discussion, Brokerage Firm Investment Technology came into agreement to pay 20.3 million dollars towards the fraud it made by maintaining secret trading desk and gaining profits by stealing confidential customer information recorded in its dark pool. Since from beginning, ITG used to act as an agency broker helping clients to trade on their behalf. It carried all the operations of buying and selling within the dark pool or company’s private stock venue. In 2010, the company initiated for a secret trading desk named Project Omega which traded to the growth of ITG’s own account. Moreover, ITG obtained automated trading strategies to collect live trading data in favor of their own clients within POSIT and other trading venues for more than a year.

Nuziveedu Seeds - One of the famous cotton seed companies got approval recently from Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to call for an initial public offer (IPO). SEBI announced that it has issued its approval for IPO on August 15th, 2015. It came to know that company has filed Draft Red Herring Prospectus in the month of April. SEBI has observed in keen about the draft placed by Nuziveedu Seeds for about 105 days and approved their proposal of initial IPO. SEBI also announced that this is the 24th company listed from beginning of the year which got approval from market regulator SEBI. Nuziveedu Seeds is the largest seed company in India located in Hyderabad. It has filed draft to get approval for an issue of 125 crore valued shares. Along with the issue, Company proposed an offer for selling shares from promoters and existing equity investor Blackstone.

Wealth Fund is the largest investment company of stock market which highly invests on real and public assets, financial assets, stocks, bonds, private equity funds and many more. It is the sovereign ofthe world with great stock exchange taking place on it. Transaction costs are increasing every year and are even raised high since 2010. In order to control the hike of transaction charges, Wealth Fund has announced recently that half of its shares are sold in a bid outside the stock market. This was revealed by a senior executive working in Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM).

Power Mech Projects Limited got established in the year 1999. Since then it is active and participating in infrastructure services. It is leading Infrastructure Services Company providing operation and maintenance services, erection work and civil work.Last week, company has initiated to call for initial people offerings (IPO). It means Power Mech want to offer its shares to general public on security exchanges for the first time from formation. On the first day, company got 7 percent subscription from investors. It is announced that company offered an issue of total 29.88 lakh shares. Among all, on the first day, 1.96 lakh shares have got bids.

Markets microstructure deals with issues of market structure and design, price formation and price discovery, transaction and timing cost, information and disclosure, and market maker and investor behavior. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) defines market microstructure as a field of study that is devoted to theoretical, empirical, and experimental research on the economics of security markets.

The Greek market seems to have a sharp fall in it as the Athens market has reopen. After a shut down for a continuous five weeks the Athens market is getting reopened this Monday and the marketers were actually waiting for the day to come soon. The shutdown was designed in order to prevent the market, banks and other financial companies of Greece from getting collapsed as the market was facing heavy crisis in past few months. The market is expected to work new way as there are many new austerity measures being attached with the market regulations now. Since the marketers are new to these new regulations, the country expects a sharp fall in the market when the Athens market begins to work on Monday.

Stock Market – Witness for tremendous changes in share values of different firms that take place within fraction of seconds. Stock market acts as a key to analyze the trade value of a country. Every country maintains offline platforms providing complete information of stock market related to trading - buying and selling stocks. As it is fast transforming process, relevant information should be delivered fast to retailers and buyers. Till today, traditional method is adopted by all countries to provide information of stock market through offline platforms.

Syngene is the leading research company established in the year 1993. Initially, the company started its research services in the field of chemistry and biology based on contract. Slowly, the company has expanded its operations to discovery and development services across industrial sectors. Syngene International is serving different industries like biotechnology, animal health, agrochemicals, nutrition, pharmaceutical, cosmetic companies and many more. The best part of Syngene International is the adoption of flexible business models in offering its services.

A shortage of glass is taking a toll on the nation’s commercial building boom, adding millions of dollars to the cost of new skyscrapers and halting some projects midway through construction. Apartment buildings are sprouting up at their briskest pace in decades, and new office towers are rising in major markets like Manhattan at the fastest rate since the early 1990s.

The CBOE, $CBOE, has gone through a massive transformation. When first established in 1973 the trading pits may have looked a lot like this picture. Now over 95% of the order flow at the Exchange is electronic. It’s local neighbor, the Merc, shut down floor trading recently. So how is this transformation effecting the company and its stock price? Things are looking good.

The investment markets remain fixated on whether the Fed will hike interest rates for the first time in almost a decade on September 17. Stock market volatility spiked in late August and so far this month, with most global equity markets in “correction” territory. It remains to be seen if the latest stock market chaos will cause the Fed to delay lift-off until December or later.

The IRS won’t be swinging one way or another on Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s tax-free Alibaba spinoff plan.

Artificial intelligence is the academic field of study which studies how to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behavior. According to Wikipedia definition “Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines, where intelligent agent (system) perceives its environment and takes action which maximizes its chances of success.

Originally produced in the mid-1990s, this film remains the most authoritative account of the Crash of 1929, and includes rare testimony from the people who worked on Wall Street at the time.

U.S based electronic trading brokerage Lightspeed Trading confirmed that on Monday’s trading day, which featured massive market movements and periods of intense market activity and volume, especially at the market open and market close was handled without a hiccup.

In this post, we will discuss in details how statistics play a crucial role in the first challenge of deciding the pair to trade. The pair is commonly chosen from the same basket of stocks for instance, Microsoft and Google (technology domain) or ICICI & Axis (Banking) or Nifty Index and MSCI index (market indices). Among each domain, there are thousands of pairs are possible. The best ones are those which are based on mathematical or statistical tests.

Though not common, a few pair trading strategies look at correlation to find a suitable pair to trade. Correlation is measurement of relationship between two variables, in this case, log returns of prices of stocks A and B. If correlation is high, say 0.8, traders may choose that pair.

An extended look at Jessica Lahey’s The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.

The housing market peaked in 2005 and proceeded to crash over the next five years, with existing home sales falling 50%, new home sales falling 75%, and national home prices falling 30%. A funny thing happened after the peak. Wall Street banks accelerated the issuance of subprime mortgages to hyper-speed.