Mick Weinstein

380 posts

Mick is the Head of Editorial for Covestor, a financial journalist and online content specialist. Prior to joining Covestor, Mick was for five years the Editor in Chief and VP Content at stock market analysis website Seeking Alpha, where he built the editorial function as the site attracted over 3.5 million unique monthly visitors and developed an innovative platform for intelligent stock market discussion. Mick is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

“Figures don’t lie but liars can figure”

Mean-reversion and market timing can indeed work – Terry Steffen

all assets long char

Ralph Dillon of Global Financial Data put together this very long term chart that shows how stocks (S&P 500 and DJIA), commodities (Gold, Silver, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil), bonds (US 10yr) and the US national debt (Total Debt as a % of GDP) have risen over time – from 1850. Click […]

A very long term chart of major asset classes

richard bernstein

"We are maybe in the fourth inning of a secular period of outperformance for U.S. assets."

Outlook Strategies

The real ‘great rotation’ is into U.S. assets – Richard …

Victor Niederhoffer after he lost everything in the 1997 Asian Crisis [video]

The famed speculator in a rare interview.

Victor Niederhoffer after he lost everything in the 1997 Asian …

hedge fund performance

Not only did hedge funds as a class underperform the S&P 500 by fully 10% through May 10, but only a small sliver of funds managed to outperform it.

Hedge funds’ abysmal performance so far in 2013

Jeffrey Gundlach: I’d short Chipotle at $380 and avoid everything Apple

"I've been all dollar, all the time."

Jeffrey Gundlach: I’d short Chipotle at $380 and avoid everything …

1962 buffett

A University of Nebraska at Omaha documentary team discovered this film clip of a young Warren Buffett in the Nebraska State Historical Society archives just a few weeks ago.

31 year old Warren Buffett is just like 83 year …

seth klarman

"The ability to distill two or three major themes out of an investment and get right to the heart of the matter."

Seth Klarman: Investing is first and foremost an art, not …

sanborn

"The least unattractive asset class to me is stocks."

“The mother of all bubbles” is fixed income securities today …

iphone girl

An iPhone 5 will run you no less than $3,754 in Moscow.

iPhones are insanely expensive in Russia, cheapest in the U.S.

Estimize’s Leigh Drogen: “We’re now more accurate than Wall Street 2/3 of the time”

The next stage is adding an intelligence layer to Estimize's growing data set.

Estimize’s Leigh Drogen: “We’re now more accurate than Wall Street …

The Moody’s of baseball cards?

When independent ratings agencies are captive to their clients.

The Moody’s of baseball cards?