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Michael Arold, based in Germany, aims to exploit market inefficiencies using a momentum-based trading strategy. He has a strong engineering background and currently works in the software industry. Here’s how Michael’s Covestor model, Technical Swing, works: Using multiple technical indicators, this model surveys movements in the market and the sectors […]

Strategies

Look who’s shorting GE stock (NYSE: GE)

by Mick Weinstein
Published March 29, 2011

Online retailer Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched a cloud-based music locker on Wednesday. From the company’s press release, the service is designed to enable customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are. Customers can easily upload […]

Outlook

Amazon’s new cloud service shakes up the industry (AMZN, AAPL, …

by Mick Weinstein
Published March 29, 2011
What Covestor managers are selling: Dean Foods (DF, ORN, AMSG)

For his Anticitrade portfolio, Covestor Model Manager Spencer Mann uses a computer algorithm to value over 4,000 stocks on ten different fundamental criteria to create a relative ranking for those most suitable for the portfolio. Mann has an engineering background. He did a BS degree at Utah State University in […]

Strategies

What Covestor managers are selling: Dean Foods (DF, ORN, AMSG)

by Frank Voisin
Published March 29, 2011
What Covestor managers are shorting: Biolase Technology (BLTI, CIGX, EEE)

Bin Hong is one of Covestor’s new managers. He is a California based long term equity investor who focuses on both fundamental and technical indicators. He has held positions as research head of a commercial bank and as risk manager of trading desks. For his Long-Short Macro Trends portfolio, Hong combines fundamental and […]

Strategies

What Covestor managers are shorting: Biolase Technology (BLTI, CIGX, EEE)

by Frank Voisin
Published March 29, 2011
Niall Ferguson: Short commodities

Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson went on Consuela Mack’s Wealthtrack this week to describe the fall of the West. He starts by naming the six killer apps (his term) that brought the West to prominence over the past 500 years, then explains China and India’s rise due to “downloading those […]

Outlook

Niall Ferguson: Short commodities

by Mick Weinstein
Published March 28, 2011

“Don’t invest in a fund where the manager has access to your assets,” says John Hempton, straight up, in response to Rob Curran’s WSJ article on hedge fund due diligence. Hempton, who runs Australia-based hedge fund Bronte Capital, says Curran’s piece “is so misguided as to be comical” and explains […]

Outlook

The value of investing with independent custodians

by Mick Weinstein
Published March 28, 2011

Tarquin Coe, based in New Rochelle, NY, is the editor of The Coe Report, a brand of Chartcraft Inc. Chartcraft is a provider of market research and technical analysis, founded in 1947 by A.W. Cohen and a developer of many analytical tools still in broad use (e.g. the NYSE Bullish […]

Archive

Tarquin Coe’s new Covestor model: Top-down, technical market timing

by Frank Voisin
Published March 28, 2011

John Frankola is the founder of Vista Investment Management, a Pittsburgh, PA based registered investment advisor that manages assets for high net worth individuals and institutional clients. As of January 2011, the firm has approximately $40 million under management. John has 33 years of experience in investment management, and previously […]

Archive

A core equity portfolio – Vista IM’s new Covestor model

by Frank Voisin
Published March 28, 2011
Three must-reads for Research in Motion shareholders (Nasdaq: RIMM)

RIM management has simply gone mad: RIM is scrambling to gate a tablet to market "

Strategies

Three must-reads for Research in Motion shareholders (Nasdaq: RIMM)

by Mick Weinstein
Published March 28, 2011

Carl Richards‘ latest sketch, on the hazards of chasing the hot funds: In his newsletter, Richards recognizes why we’re susceptible to this error: We’ve been told over and over by the traditional financial services industry to look for the best investment. In our search for the best we often use […]

Outlook

Past performance is not a guarantee…

by Mick Weinstein
Published March 27, 2011

For his Flexible Value portfolio, Covestor model manager Walter Lu aims to maximize total returns in the long term by using a deep value investing approach that looks for liquidations, arbitrage opportunities and special situations. Current top positions include Hollywood Media Corp (HOLL), Celgene Corp (CELGZ) and Aeropostale (ARO). On […]

Strategies

What Covestor managers are buying: Best Buy (BBY, ARO, HOLL)

by Frank Voisin
Published March 25, 2011

Focal Point Management is a California-based investment advisor founded by Amin Khakiani. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Khakiani brings a quantitative background in engineering and mathematics, as well as eleven years’ experience in corporate finance to the management of two of Covestor’s quantitative models, Quantitative Broad Index and Quantitative Hedging. The […]

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A quantitative approach to the markets – Focal Point Management …

by Frank Voisin
Published March 25, 2011

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