Random thoughts

Delphi method is popular tool in managment. I think it can be used in macro trading style nice. We can find all info on separate company but its hard to see full picture alone on macro trading. So in hedge fund we can have 4-5 analysts on macro. In general analyst - the man who just collect info and making calculations. In classical terms, analyst is the man who dont give buy/sell recommendations. Practice when analyst give recommendations began with increasing broker's competition. Appeared star analyst, appeared sell side and buy side analysts. It became like a PR for brokers - "Look to as! Our analyst gave so good recommendation! He is superstar!" So we have 4-5 macro analyst and portfolio manager. Every period of time they make conference, where analyst saying buy/sell/neutral thesis. Portfolio manager collect this thesis and then ALONE make investment decision.
ETF on commodities. Next time i think we will not use commodities's company but will use commodities ETFs. For example now we have gold stake. 3 gold mining companies which are represent 10% from our portfolio. ETF - GLD better represent our investment idea. Also we find interesting new tool - ETFs on hedge fund's index. For example - QAI, which represemt multi strategy index.
What can be a catalyst for market downmove?
As we saw dollar weakness last quarter we could see better earnings for export companies - but its already in earnings consensuns forecast i think. But anyway, some suprises we can see. Oracle already reported good earnings. Good signal for us, as we have big stake in technology - 22% from portfolio. And also our companies in technology are selling products abroad. So with support from other strong fundamentals, we would see nice earnings.
We have H&S on S&P which everybody see know. So it could be activated but can be work with some deformations. Maybe down breakout will not be so deep as on classics tech analysis. Consumer numbers in USA after 3 strong month announced bad. Manipulation last 3 times? What will be if other economic data will be bad again? I think economic data have to be trendive. Its strange when we have this random numbers. I am not sure about this, will speak about this when i will become better in macroeconomic.
Its not effective in investing to use classics, all which using other players. Nut this is a start point for creative. No many other ways. I am agree with Charl Poper - new in science - is finding mistakes/upgrading old theories. All progress usually were made by this way.

Bearish propaganda

This week opening with huge down move on US Markets. S&P broke 900 points level.
Was interesting to see news background today. It is looking like propaganda. In one time all powerfull financials began to say the same about economy. Trichet said about potentional new wave of unstability, said that we are still in down trend in economy. World Bank said that the recession will be deeper than they forecast in March. Interesting change after 3 month stong bull rally and good earnings. Also we saw a strong sell from insiders. S&P losing 2,5% on Monday's evening. The largest from June 2007. This is interesting that this all news brought down on market on one day. FED on wednesday can keep bearish move going. Oil finishing 2nd day in strong down trend. Think if we will see self powered trend by all catalysts above we will see oil comeback to much lower levels.. Hard to say.. For now maybe 55-60$ area. Commodity can fall hard coz current prices represents not real demand but hopes of economy recovery and inflation expactations.

Random thoughts

Our portfolio feeling better last time. Now we have drodown -0,23%. This drodown coz of falling gold prices but we are rather confidence of it. We see good resistance @900$. Our fundamental view on it wasnt changed. We are happy, coz our portfolio strategy we think is working, especially that we made real investment portfolio for 1st time in life. Other our picks filling good.
Last time i have a lot of global thought/professional dreams. At first was inspired by golden boy of 80x - Mikel Milken. He made in whole word sense junk bonds market in America. I read far time ago book about Wall Street in 80x and this really fun, interesting, scarry, sometimes inspired, emotional.. Book author James Stuart, name of book - "Gang of thieves from Wall Street". We can read a story of Mikel Milken, Ivan Boeski and others. 80x - was time of avidity on Wall Street. Do you think something was changed? ))). A dream - to MAKE MARKET in Ukraine. Now RTS conquers bigger and bigger market share of exchange operations in Ukraine. Regulation fund of RTS UKraine is only 12mln UAH. But i think it will hard to get a part of RTS, coz its a lot of market, market policy power, etc. So even with money its a question. It would be really cool to make liquidity in Ukranian market, derevatives, etc.
Other professional interest is on options. Need to work a lot with numbers, graps trading options, i dont like this much but anyway i feel this is good area for making money, huge less efficient than stock market. There are must be huge more "free lunches" here. For russian language readers can give a really nice blog of rus guy - Option trader .
Eric Nayman from UkrSocBank - here his blog made calculations of Herst index with target to find trending on financial markets. With this calculations he refutes Effective Market Hypothesis, EMH. Question of EMH was always worrieng me. Sometimes i think market Efficient/not efficient depending on how we thinking about it. Somelike thought become real :-). I trust that this phenomen we have in life, so why we cant have it even in scientific researches :-) especially on researchs of social proccess. EMH investigation from classical economic theory where buyer and seller are rational. But on banal philosophy we can to refute EMH easy. Why economists acknowledge trends in economy but not acknowledge trend in stock markets? This to process are influence one on other, so if one is trendive , other have to be trendive too? This sounds crazy and very simple? Maybe i just have small skill in economy? Other look have Victor Niedernhoffer. He is statistican and calculated that there is no trends on markets, but he dont trust in EMH. He dont trusts in trends but trust in conformities to law of motion of price.
Other old professional dream is to build dynamic model in which we could see a line of how economy sectors will grow/fall, in what sequences, how they will influence one on other, etc. I found deep scientific works on it. For example - Klein-Goldberg Model, Warton economic model. But to work on this theme need solid economy, econometic background.
We didnt find a good portfolio tool on free. Dont understand why. Is it hard to programm nice portfolio tool, which will calculate coefficints automaticaly?) Bullshit. In future we will program it by ourselves and it will be on our site ))).

Idea on gold

I see that many hedge fund managers are long now on gold or gold trusts , etc. I think its not just hedging in classical term. We have big inflations expectations and doubtful market growth. If no risks will be converted in to reality we will see continue of market growth and gold growth too. Market will growth by better fundamentals, gold will growth by inflation expectations - if economy is began to recover - inflation wiil begin growing quick. If we dont see real economic recovering now, we will see second wave of recesion. It will mean more money to print again, bigger inflation in future, so market in this scenario will go down again, but gold after some down move, will grow even more quickly.

Friday's preperation

As I am writing this words (14-55 Kyiv time) , S&P index climbed more than 1.5%. This growth explained by good accounting from Sears, rumors that GM can have another offers for their Opel and Vauxhall. Today we dont have more events, news , etc , that can be economic drivers. Only Ben Bernanke will have speech @21-00 Kyiv time. Will see hows US market will open. But now we can expect that trend could change only after 21-00. Todays market character could be range as on Monday we have US holiday . So traditionaly we see low volume on day like this.
First lets look for pennystocks
MRM - growth expleined by earnings. Its not the best pattern to play in pennystocks but lets just keep on mind this stock. Pennystock which reported good earning more often just keep its growth. We could by it on strong market plus if we have possibility to pot small stop loss on high breakout. Or on weak market we can look for sidemove to identify key level and short on its breakout.
NMTI - This stock grew, but had bad earning report + analyst upgrade. So no question that it is nice short. Look for 1.9 lvl breakout with good volume to short.
OGXI - we had news about drug of this pharmaceuticals company last week. Its nice short, but we still didnt see sidemove.
NGSX - this stock is some dangerous due its thin but fundamentally its nice pattern for sell. 4.5$ breakout.
Other stocks
Today we saw bad accounting from British Airways. We can expect that airways will weak today. CAL and DAL - maybe the weakest from this sector.
Another pennystock list to look pennystocks

Economic's waves

Its dispute speaks about economic waves as always. Noboby really confirmed that this waves tied to time. Below we can see structure of famous russian economist Kondratyev. Lets just think about it.