The AUD/USD posted an inside day on Friday, indicating trader indecision. This also typically indicates impending volatility. The Forex pair begins the session 11 days down from the April 10 top which puts it in the window of time for a closing price reversal bottom, or at least the start of a short-term correction.
Posted by Ivanhoff on April 25th, 2014 at 1:29 pmCrowdfunding has existed forever. It has recently become popular via Kickstarter, where companies could raise money by promising to deliver product or a service at a future date. This is not the type of crowdfunding I refer to in this post. By crowdfunding, I mean obtaining equity in private companies.
So, why is this subject so important to someone like me, whose entire edge is in public markets?
First, let me remind you of the main purpose of Initial Public Offerings.
Companies go public:
- to offer liquid exits for founders, employees and private investors;
- raise capital to expand;
- achieve higher valuations;
A number of years ago, one of my colleagues told me his younger brother was coming to town and wondered if I would be able to give him a few lessons. The interesting part was that my colleague’s brother was one of the top ten junior tennis players in the country.
Of course I said yes, but it set up a tough situation. One, it would be awful to screw up one of the best young players in the country! Two, I was only going to see him for a few lessons over a single weekend. Anything I told him would have to be helpful, of course, but it couldn’t be so detailed that he’d need to see me again. It had to be useful enough to make him better but general enough so he could gradually add to that instruction over time. As it turns out, we had some great lessons and he went on to have a great career (becoming the #1 ranked collegiate tennis player in the nation and playing the pro tour after that).
By: Rachel Fox - Foxonstocks.comI recently started reading about the Alibaba IPO that is projected to happen in the Fall of 2014. I wrote a blog about Alibaba awhile back. Find it HERE
According to an April 2014 Los Angeles Times article, “Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce behemoth with more sales than Amazon and EBay combined, has decided to go public on Wall Street after months of speculation that it would list in Hong Kong.”
I’ve always been fascinated with Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and remember the Facebook (FB) IPO like it was yesterday. There’s so much excitement and hope and, of course, the prospect of making a huge profit, so what’s not to like about IPOs?
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent subpoenas to six high-frequency trading firms seeking information about special arrangements they have with exchanges and dark pools as well as their trading strategies, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Chopper Trading LLC, Jump Trading LLC and Tower Research Capital LLC are among the firms, according to the person, who asked to not be named because the details of the investigation haven’t been made public.
Matt Schrecengost, the chief operating officer of Chicago-based Jump Trading, and Mark Gorton, managing director of New York-based Tower Research, didn’t immediately return voicemail messages seeking comment. No official at Chicago-based Chopper Trading was immediately available.
