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Gravitas Securities Closes Shop?
I have heard rumours of Gravitas Securities, a Canadian "investment bank," closing their doors and laying off key staff and long-time employees. For background, I have never heard good things about this firm. From being a boiler room operation with toxic management who are blow-hards and shady...
Trading and Beating the Market
Been doing some reading on personal investing lately and that's got me converted to the index investing camp. It seems like in a deep market (equities) with nearly instantaneous dissemination of information, it's nearly impossible to beat the market. I want to say that opportunities to beat the...
From Junk Bond Kings to r/WallStreetBets
Almost a sociology post, but here I go. Plenty of people have speculated that the economy progresses in 40-50 year cycles (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave), and I think culture can work the same way. In the 1980s, you had the junk bond titans (like Milken) and the people who used...
Is speculation a good reason for passion in finance?
Hi everyone, I am about to send my application for insight internships and I am having doubts about my Cover Letter. In section "why finance?" I said the truth why I chose it over other industries. It is speculation which I find really appealing. How to sell when there's euphoria, how to buy when...
Futures Trading 101: What Is A Speculator?
So what does it mean exactly to speculate? First there was, John Maynard Keynes speculating as a currency trader in the 1920’s where experience taught him, “The market can stay irrational longer than you can be solvent.” Then there was the hyperbolic oil market of 2008 where the NYMEX weekly...
The Tupac Effect
So the rapper 2Pac is alive after all! … at least in hologram form. For those of you out of the loop, this past week at the Coachella music festival, a hologram of Tupac Shakur performed 2 songs with fellow rapper Snoop Dog and the crowd loved every second of it – you can watch the performance...
Eventually Twitter
I am always late to the party. Sometimes it is because of my incessant tardiness. Sometimes it is because I don’t catch on to things mainstream years in the making. Sometimes it is because I am pretty damn cool. In this case I am betting on all three. As a result of the recent $400 million...
Should Speculators Determine the Price of Goods Everyone Needs?
Growing up, my parents always emphasized the importance of working hard, saving money, and investing wisely. Neither of my parents worked in finance so the only investments I grew up learning about was investing in the stock market and being able to pick certain stocks that were fundamentally...
The Watch Fund
From time to time I like to laugh at the seemingly ridiculous. Sometimes, however, investments which seem to be mere play investments turn out exorbitant returns. One such possible idea could be The Watch Fund. Now, we have had some timeless debates on Wall Street watches but never had I actually...
How High will Gold and Silver Climb?
With gold advancing to record highs and silver hitting Hunt brother levels not seen in many of your life times, it's time for a little speculative competition. Where will gold and silver stand by the end of the year? By now, even the financially illiterate have memorized the textbook explanation of...
Commodities Class: Oil
2011 is rolling along and class is officially back in session. Today's topic is (arguably) bigger than the entire commodity industry from the ags and softs we put in our bellies to the tungstens and osmiums arming our battleships and M50 bullets. Topic #3 Oil With all of the talk about monetary...
The Penny Stock Experience
This morning I decided to click on one of those annoying links and remembered fondly of how once upon a time I traded penny stocks . Anybody who tells you that there is a way to beat markets and prove yourself somehow consistently superior, clearly didn't day trade in the 90's. Bigger fools than you...
Weekend Wars: Traders vs. Funds
10/4. To military and police personnel, an affirmative acknowledgment. To investors and traders, the potential boiling point of a slow simmering feud. On this date, several high powered mutual-fund executives will convene at the Investment Company Institute in Washington D.C. and reportedly begin a...
Touring Europe / Currency Exchange
Hi Monkeys, I will be graduating in a few weeks and afterward will be going on a European Grad Tour with some fellow students. When do you guys think would be the best time to exchange dollars for euros? i.e. I am asking you to speculate. Thanks, MKballer
Chinese Ghost Cities
Recent statistics show that there are about 64 million apartments and houses that have remained empty during the past six months, according to Chinese media reports. On the assumption that each flat serves as a home to a typical Chinese family of three (parents and one child), the vacant properties...
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