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Stocks To Get $43 Billion Of Support Over The Next Week. If They Behave
Interest in systematic flows -- and specifically the effort to anticipate and quantify their impact -- seems to be growing all the time.
The bull market in articles about quants and "algos" is at least half a decade old, but it waxes and wanes depending on market circumstances. Whenever there's a bout of volatility or a drawdown, the financial media tends to ramp up the "robot" coverage, which typically manifests as "Whodunnit"-type pieces.
More recently, financial journalists have started to
The Faculty is an under rated film, not quite deserving of the cult status enjoyed by Invasion of the Body Snatchers but way more clever and entertaining than one would expect from a film that at the time was marketed as a teen slasher/horror flick.
Frankly — and this is one of the more controversial opinions I’ve ever offered in eight years writing for public consumption on everything from macro to markets to domestic politics to war — Scream is probably one of the 20 greatest horror movies ever made.
The sequels are execrable, but Scream is solid, the original meta-horror movie, and one of the best meta-concept movies ever. Network is the best in that category. For meta-horror, check out Cabin In the Woods. It was so much better than I was expecting, definitely in the same league as Scream. Another interesting one is One Cut of the Dead, an indy film from Japan, which turns the whole concept on its head.
I saw the 1956 Night of the Body Snatchers on TV as a kid when Nick At Night aired it. Blew my mind.
Shouldn’t “smart money” hedge funds be front-running this buying? Or have they lost their appetite for risk? Interesting.