Archive for December 1st, 2009

ALPHA.ROM – What is better BRD or TLV?

Performance cycles turned in favor of TLV on 24 Jul when the pair performance cycles between BRD and TLV topped. Starting 24 July till 19 Nov respective pair performance cycles continued to push lower. During this period LONG TLV – SHORT BRD strategy delivered  60% gains. This is 168% annualized gains. Now did we ever think that between BRD and TLV performances could diverge up to 60%.  Now the pair performance cycle is bottoming and we are expecting BRD to start outperforming TLV again. The latest ALPHA.ROM carries the latest NUMERIC RANKING on BETXT stocks.

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ALPHA is a pair trading, long only – short only strategy and numeric ranking product based on TIME fractals.  Time arbitrage, Time Triads, Time fractals are terms coined by Orpheus Research. The signals are carried over three different time frames viz. sub minor (2-3 days), minor (10-30 days) and intermediate (above 30 days). This is a daily signal product. The signals will be illustrated through tracker and running portfolios. Alpha can be used by fund managers for relative allocations, traders for leverage bets and high net worth clients for selective trades. This is a part of the time triads analytics developed by Orpheus Research.

TIME ARBITRAGE portfolio has five pairs now viz. BRD-BET, BETXT-SNP, SIF2-SIF5, BRD-BETXT, BET-SNP. The above tracker will be updated on a daily basis. The freshly opened trades will have the shortest holding periods. Minor degree averaged 10-30 days and intermediate degree trade averages above 30 days. The legs should be risk weighted before any implementation. We are assuming a running stop loss of 2% per traded pair. SIF2/SIF5 +A-B means LONG SIF2, SHORT SIF5.  While SIF2/SIF5 –A+B means SHORT SIF2,  LONG SIF5.

LONG ONLY, SHORT ONLY portfolio covers SIF2, SIF5, SIF4, BRD, ERSTE, TGN, BETI, BETFI, BETNG, BETXT, SNP, DAFORA, TERAPLAST, ATB, BIO, BCC

STOP LOSS AND EXITS are activated at 4%

Please feel free to mail us for any clarifications.  *This is a strategy product. Long Short strategies are not riskless strategies. Please mail us for a detailed working or consult a local financial risk manager to execute these pairs. For more details please subscribe to the ORPHEUS TIME ANALYTICS research products.

Time is a social construct and we see time through the life and nature around us. Understanding time can not only give a unifying theory to research of a few thousand years, but also help us understand the world we live in. Time evolves, oscillates and continues. Time comes before everything, but we don’t see it. We just feel it. We believe what we see and this is why understanding what we don’t see is a challenge. Understanding time could bring more than a conventional thought down, it’s a revolution, which could rock the very foundation of economic thought or the geometric structures Euclid laid down in 300 BC. We are at the start of the journey, but if time is indeed the real mathematics, we could see high accuracy in time forecasts.

Econohistory is the study of performance cycles between assets. Cycles are the generic name for time fractals. Performance cycles can be studied for any time frame, for as small as a tick data to multiyear time frames. This objective approach to performance cyclicality can explain why intermarket analysis is an area of study? Why bonds and commodities tend to be inversely related? What is the connection of Oil with world markets? Why the world watches DOW sometimes and sometimes a 500 point effect on DOW seems to have no impact? Why correlation between assets moves from near perfect at times to weak correlation at other times? Why the same news has different impact on a stock or market? Why equities and bond trend together and why the relationship decouples sometime? When will inflation become deflation, disinflation, stagflation or hyperinflation? When and why does gold outperform and underperform silver?  Econohistory can objectively answer these questions, using performance cycles, time fractals and past data. Economic history is mathematical.

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Integrity Research: The Payment Paradox

New York – The complexity of payment options is one reason why equity research is such a tough business. Research providers are faced with a variety of payment vehicles: commissions paid through Commission Sharing Arrangements or Client Commission Agreements (CSAs/CCAs), commission paid through traditional soft dollars, commissions paid direct (if you have a trading desk), and plain old cash, aka, hard dollars.

We are told by CSA/CCA brokers that volumes have been booming, as asset managers who have the agreements in place are putting more transactions through. The impetus has been to take advantage of ‘cost plus’ commission fees, reducing overall commission expense. Asset managers with CSAs/CCAs in place negotiate an execution fee based on electronic trading and then add an amount that can be set aside for research payments as part of the commission pool generated by the CSA/CCA. The payments are then used to pay for other brokers’ research, and for alternative research. read more


WAVES.GLOBAL – Nikkei ready to outperform BVSP(Brazil), IRTS (Russia), SSEC (China), Sensex (India)

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WAVES.GLOBAL is a perspective product published on Monday. The report highlights top GLOBAL indices and emerging market indices viz. Dow Jones Industrial (.DJI), S&P 500 (.GSPC), German DAX (.GDAXI), Russian IRTS (.IRTS), Shanghai Composite (.SSEC), Nikkei 225 (.N225), Brazil BOVESPA (.BVSP), Indian Sensex (.BSESN). The product highlights Primary (Multi Month) and Intermediate (Multi Week) price trends. The report illustrates key price levels, price targets, price projections and time turn windows. The product uses Elliott waves, traditional technical analysis tools, sentiment indicators and other alternative research tools like INTERMARKET to spot outperformers and market trends.

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Orpheus Newsletter


THE ORPHEUS NEWSLETTER – 30 NOV 2009

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The Hedge Opportunity. Performance cycles indicate that Hedging could be an opportunity and not just an imperfect risk management technique. The history and the idea. Hedging is one of the first ideas modern finance taught us. Hedging as an exercise was started for a farmer, who wanted to insulate himself from movements in agricultural commodity price. The commodity prices fluctuate and create a risk. If the actual price of agricultural commodity rises a lot between planting and harvest, the farmer stands to profit, but if the actual price drops, it could lead to a loss. A hedge allowed the farmer to sell a number of wheat futures contracts equivalent to his crop size at planting time. This way he could effectively lock in the price of wheat. Now he no longer cares whether the current price rises or falls, because he is guaranteed a price by the contract. Overtime the risk management shifted to stock prices. Change the farmer for a stock trader, who believes that the stock price of Company A is volatile and could fall. He offsets the position with the index or another sector peer, now if the market falls and the stock, the investor has locked in a price and will not lose. read more.

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The Inefficient Pair. A recurring divergent performance on an equity pair could redefine alpha. Robert Arnott’s, Research Affiliates LLC, has received a patent for an indexing methodology that selects and weights securities using fundamental measures of company size, such as dividends and sales. Fundamental indexing has gained popularity with $27 billion tracking the indices. This is 3% of the total investments tracking the S&P 500. Apart from the fact that the patent gives intellectual rights to Research Affiliates and generates license fee for the company, the revolution here is challenging the benchmark. read more.

TIME ANALYTICS – ECONOHISTORY

ALPHA.INDIA – TCS VS NIFTY UP 60%
ALPHA.INDIA – Grasim to outperform L&T
ALPHA.ROM – Can BRD outperform BETXT by 100%?
ALPHA.CEE – CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE INDICES
ALPHA.ENERGY – Long Gazprom, Short Chevron
ALPHA.GLOBAL.INDICES – Long Nikkei, Short Brazil (BVSP)
ALPHA ENERGY: Chevron moves up in rankings
ALPHA.GLOBAL – Short Pfizer, Long J&J continues

INDIA

WAVES.INDIA – NSEBANK ALTERNATE
CHANNELS.INDIA – NTPC. ANTICIPATED AND HAPPENED
CHANNELS.INDIA – EARLY ECONOMIC MINOR CORRECTIVES
WAVES.INDIA – NO CLEAR SIGN OF AN IMPULSE YET
CHANNELS.INDIA – TELECOMMUNICATIONS REMAIN DOWN
WAVES.INDIA – CNXIT. ANTICIPATED AND HAPPENED
CHANNELS.INDIA – ENERGY SHOWS SIGNS OF NEGATIVITY
CHANNELS.INDIA – EARLY ECONOMIC – ANTICIPATED AND HAPPENED SPECIAL
WAVES.INDIA – PREFERRED CONTINUES TO LOOK LOWER

ROMANIA

CHANNELS.BVB – MID ECONIMIC UPDATE – CONDMAG PERFORMANCE CYCLE START TO UNDERPERFORM
WAVES.ROM – BETFI PUSHES LOWER FROM KEY FIB LEVELS
CHANNELS.BVB – LATE ECONOMIC UPDATE – OLTCHIM READY TO TURN UP
CHANNELS.BVB – EARLY ECONOMIC UPDATE – TLV INDICATES EXHAUSTION
WAVES.ROM – BETFI. ABOVE 24,000 GET READY FOR 27,000
CHANNELS.BVB – MID ECONOMIC UPDATE ON INDUSTRIALS
WAVES.ROM – BETFI READY TO OUTPERFORM DOW
CHANNELS.BVB – LATE ECONOMIC UPDATE – UTILITIES ARE POSITIVE
CHANNELS.BVB – EARLY ECONOMIC UPDATE – RESISTANCES TURN INTO SUPPORTS

GLOBAL

WAVES.GLOBAL – DOW. THE CORRECTIVE STRUCTURE SEEMS OVER
WAVES.GOLD – PRICES ARE CONTINUING THE CORRECTIVE STRUCTURE UP
WAVES.OIL – HEATING OIL. FUTURES. POTENTIAL ENDING DIAGONAL
WAVES.GLOBAL – DAX. THE CORRECTIVE STRUCTURE UP SEEMS COMPLETE
WAVES.FOREX – GBPUSD. CONTINUING THE CORRECTIVE STRUCTURE DOWN TILL 1.6
WAVES.GOLD – Gold 1200 is here

NEWS

Alternative Research – Reasons for Optimism
Intergrity Research – The failure of financial analysis
Integrity Research – Outsouring as a profit driver