Archive for April, 2011
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Is Day Trading a Losing Proposition?
Posted by Michael Bigger on April 28th, 2011 at 3:07 pm, Comments: 0In the past, I found day trading to be a losing proposition. I lost money day trading when I wanted to day trade. I find [...]
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The Second Roach Comes Out of the Cupboard
Posted by Michael Bigger on April 24th, 2011 at 4:52 pm, Comments: 0Today we thought we’d provide an update to our $SCSS (Select Comfort Corporation) – $TPX (Tempur Pedic) trade from April 7th and April 8th. On [...]
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Weekly Spread Re-Cap 4/15/2011
Posted by Michael Bigger on April 17th, 2011 at 5:15 pm, Comments: 0The bulk of the spread trading we do is based almost purely on statistical methods. If a particular stock pair is co-integrated over a certain [...]
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Your Adjacent Possible
Posted by Michael Bigger on April 13th, 2011 at 2:17 pm, Comments: 0Inspired by Steven Johnson Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to discuss trading with a seasoned trader at the Four Seasons hotel located in [...]
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Weekly Spread Re-Cap 4-08-2011
Posted by Michael Bigger on April 10th, 2011 at 5:11 pm, Comments: 0On Thursday, April 7th, after the market close, TPX (Tempur Pedic International) said it expected to report strong first quarter results, and increased its full [...]
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Weekly Spread Re-Cap 4-01-2011
Posted by Michael Bigger on April 3rd, 2011 at 4:20 pm, Comments: 0This week we thought we’d talk about a couple of losing spread trades. You can’t expect to get every trade right, so you have to [...]
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Michael Bigger is an investor and a trader who has been involved with trading technologies for more than twenty years. In 1992, Michael joined Citibank as head trader of U.S. single-stock derivatives, where he managed a $5 billion portfolio of equity derivatives. In 1998, he joined D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. to trade the U.S. equity derivatives portfolio. (More) -
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