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tods5eshoes · Wysłany: Sob 9:46, 12 Mar 2011 Temat postu: tod 3829

What is market structure and what does it have to do with investor relations?
In today's electronic trading environment, traders and investors alike react to market structure. In general terms, Market Structure means the number, size, kind and distribution of participants in a market.
Quantitative trading is popular and successful because it manages risk through mathematical analysis of market structure. Results? Fundamental and quantitative investors alike manage capital with programs, algorithms, structured products, crossing platforms… on it goes.
Here's is what we at ModernIR are observing: the act of investing is more and more the domain of private equity, while the practice of trading in pursuit of alpha (divergences from norms) and beta (the degree of divergence) is the prevalent form of "investing" today in the equity markets.
You could conclude that the Nasdaq and the NYSE, having absorbed Archipelago and Instinet (and BRUT), are essentially ECNs. Trades on what remains of the floor of the NYSE are driven by mathematics and execute in 200 milliseconds or less. High-frequency firms like Octeg (the equity trading arm of Getco LLC), Renaissance Technologies, Citadel Derivatives, Millenco and BATS Trading move billions of shares per month – often more than the global market's biggest equity program trader, Morgan Stanley.
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The conclusion, IROs? If you are still executing investor relations the same old way, you're ill-equipped for Reg NMS markets. You have got to know your market structure. If you don't, you're the only participant in the market who doesn't.
If you conduct your Investor Relations program – messaging, shareholder-base goals,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], outreach, measurement – without considering market structure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you're neglecting a key facet of what drives your external target market's decisions. Risks? Inaccurate answers about why your equity appreciates or declines. Wasted time on outreach and messages inappropriate for your market structure. Ineffective measurement of your IR program. Net effect: Reduced value at the management table, less functional relevance.
"But we focus on the business and let the stock take care of itself. " We hear this a lot. Investors will always follow the cash… that's why they're pumping literally trillions into private equity. So consider going private or accept that the short-term nature of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]ay's equity markets is at odds with altruism. Then add to your skills by learning the new key value drivers embodied in market structure. IROs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Street isn't what it used to be. If you – and your management team – want to navigate today's equity market with calm confidence, you must cozy up to market structure and make it work for you. Tim Quast is a fifteen-year Investor Relations veteran and founder of ModernIR. com, which parses and categorizes over a half-billion shares per week with its trading intelligence system, Equity Analysis. Learn more about electronic trading and investor relations. Investor Relations News on electronic trading and IR.Topics related articles：

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