IR and Global Statistical Arbitrage (veezq-47832)

It\'s been quite a wild week in the markets. Exchange volumes boggled the mind on January 24th – and they weren’t driven by fundamental investors executing buys and sells. Let\'s look at global statistical arbitrage and what it means from (or to) the comfort of your investor relations chair.

It's been quite a wild week in the markets. Exchange volumes boggled the mind on January 24th – and they weren’t driven by fundamental investors executing buys and sells. Let's look at global statistical arbitrage and what it means from (or to) the comfort of your investor relations chair.

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You’ve seen it, right? Well, we submit that most of the time it’s no such thing. Rather, we believe this thrashing can be attributed to global statistical arbitrage. In the simplest of terms, arbitrage is the efforts by traders to take advantage of minute speed, time-zone and informational inefficiencies at various planetary market entry points.

Why should you care, there in the IR chair? (That rhyme would work well in an official investor relations ditty.) One big reason, so you have answers when your execs and board members wonder why investors are selling shares of a business with outstanding fundamentals and economically resilient drivers.

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How to arrive at the answers? Watch the NATURE of the participants in your market, whether you’re listed on the Nasdaq or the NYSE (both give you the means to do this). Note the trading activity of firms in context of global daily ups and downs. If the big Prime brokers, anonymous platforms and well-known arbitrage systems like Lime Brokerage, and ITG and Pulse Trading and on it goes, play dominating roles in your marketplace and lead your stock up and down…odds are, you’re largely a reflection of macroeconomic factors.

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We’re simplifying of course. And, really, answers and knowledge can be remarkably precise, given the anonymous nature of today’s markets. Yes, it takes a little time, a bit of education…but you can increase your influence. We believe IROs have the capacity to exercise more influence now than ever.

Also, you must remind the hand-wringers that it’s best, to use what may seem a mixed metaphor, to allow smoke to clear before opening fire.