Where Have All The Stocks Gone?
Send us a textThe Private Capital Industry Soars Beyond $7 TrillionOver the past twenty years, the number of companies listed on the US stock market has almost halved. The world’s largest, most liquid public equity market would appear to have lost its shine.Institutional investors have been piling into private markets instead, in particular venture capital, private equity and private debt. The Financial Times reported last week that the size of the private capital industry has now reached $7....
16 Juni 202118min
Inflation - A New Era?
Send us a textUnprecedented stimulus measures to help the global economy recover from the pandemic are fueling price rises in many major economies. This week we examine whether this is just temporary, or if inflation is back for good. Is this a new era of hyperinflation?Interview With Manoj Pradhan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHf0o...Book by Manoj Pradhan - The Great Demographic Reversal: https://amzn.to/2TBpGsaPatrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerL...
8 Juni 202118min
Robinhood IPO Access
Send us a textRobinhood will give retail investors access to IPO shares. Robinhood announced last week that they are building a platform to “democratize” initial public offerings, including their own, that would allow users of its trading app to buy shares alongside Wall Street funds.The move could erode Wall Street’s grip on stock market flotations. It would be easier to implement for Robinhood’s own IPO, given how companies and their investment bankers tightly control allocations to investo...
8 Juni 202119min
The Five Biggest Insider Trading Scandals
Send us a textThe top five insider trading scandals. When people hear the term “insider trading,” they think of the crime. But insider trading is just the trading of a public company's securities by people with access to nonpublic or insider information about the company. There are rules around how insiders are allowed trade, forms they must fill out and so on, and these differ around the world.Insider trading becomes illegal when a person bases their trading decision on information that the ...
20 Maj 202123min
Wall Street Quants - A History
Send us a textI have been a trader for over twenty years, and from the start of my hedge fund career working with Victor Niederhoffer I have taken a quantitative approach to researching and executing trading strategies. A quant trader is a trader that builds statistical models to test trading strategies rather than relying on intuition and experience. Today we will look at the history of Quantitative Trading from 4000 years ago up until the present day. We will discuss the contributions...
6 Maj 202116min
What Are The Odds Of A Double Yolk Egg?
Send us a textTodays podcast is a fun look at probability and statistics. We learn about double yolk eggs, why do they happen, what is the probability of finding one, and if you get one double yolker egg in a carton what is the probability of finding more than one? In probability, two events are independent if the incidence of one event does not affect the probability of the other event. If the incidence of one event does affect the probability of the other event, then the events are de...
29 Apr 20216min
The Bitcoin Green Revolution - Is Cathie Wood Right About Bitcoin?
Send us a textWe look at the latest research from the good folks ARK Invest and payment company Square titled “Bitcoin is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future”. Are Cathie Wood and Jack Dorsey right about the bitcoin green revolution?The white paper Square and ARK Invest ($ARKK) published this week aims to justify bitcoin’s energy use and explain how it could be the key to a future of clean energy. Square, a fintech founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has invested $220 m in bitcoin, ...
26 Apr 202114min
New Companies Vs. Old
Send us a textA study by McKinsey found that the average life-span of S&P 500 companies has fallen from 61 years in 1958 to less than 18 years today. McKinsey predict that, by 2027, 75% of the companies currently included in the S&P 500 will have disappeared.So, What happens to these companies? Well, many will be bought- out, merged, and some will even go bankrupt like Lehman Brothers and Worldcom did. Some companies keep on going. General Electric, Exxon Mobile and Procter & Gamb...
16 Apr 202110min
