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Hennes & Mauritz AB: A Bear in the Swedish Woods

Introduction Firstly, we briefly present H&M business. Secondly, we provide a report of recently announced Q1 2017 results. Thirdly, we perform a DCF and multiples valuation to find a target price for H&M, in line with recently announced results. Finally, we will explore a strategy to profit from our analysis. Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Macroeconomy Markets Trade Ideas

Is The (CDS) Maginot Line Falling?

Introduction The aim of this article is to analyse the current CDS spread of France with respect to Germany, and propose a profitable strategy for betting on the convergence of the spreads. The article is going to provide a brief introduction on the topic of CDS, followed by a short Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Long Term Investment Markets Trade Ideas

Is the Gun Industry Accurately Priced? A Short Analysis

Introduction The aim of this article is to analyse the current price valuation of the biggest players in the gun manufacturing industry, trying to assess if they are correctly priced. We will begin with a brief overview of the recent past in the guns industry, followed by an extensive analysis Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Commodities Equity Indices Trade Ideas

A Bull Call Spread for Brazil

Brazil is coming from a three-year recessionary period, with an unemployment rate still above 12%. Despite this, the Bovespa index (IBOV), which is the top equity index for the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange and has 59 components, is up almost 10% since January 1st 2017 and up 70% since January Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Equity Indices Macroeconomy Markets Trade Ideas

US and Eurozone: expectations upside down

It is widely known that the USA and the EU are in different economic conditions: the American economy has risen from the crisis and the FED is tightening the policy, while Draghi, the president of the ECB, declared that they will keep the quantitative easing going. Unemployment in the US Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Equity Indices Markets Quantitative Finance Trade Ideas

Special Report: When the Bull Bursts the Bubble, the Bear Arrives

The main purpose of the following Special Report is to understand how bear and bull markets develop over time and how it is possible to forecast their path. With respect to forecasting bear markets, our focus will be on non-parametric models developed following the algorithms of Bry and Boschan (1971). Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Fixed Income Long Term Investment Macroeconomy Markets Trade Ideas

Trumponomics: Profit with Inverse ETFs

This article will introduce an unconventional way to profit when interest rates rise using inverse ETFs. We will show the upsides and downsides of these tools, focusing on how they could be used in today’s American market. Inverse ETFs could be a useful tool to deal with the possible future Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Commodities Currencies Equity Indices Fixed Income Macroeconomy Markets Trade Ideas

US Elections – Politics Toying with Financial Markets

The US Electoral System In the US, the race for presidency is a long process that includes primaries, caucuses and national conventions, in which the parties’ candidates are determined. The main popular vote on who is going to be president of the US is called general election and will take Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Currencies Markets Trade Ideas

How to Manipulate the Bitcoin Market (2/3)

This article is the follow up to “How to Manipulate the Bitcoin Market (1/3)”. In the second part, we want to show how the spikes in price between the end of May and the first half of June 2016 were the result of just a few investors who used huge Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Currencies Macroeconomic Views Markets Trade Ideas

EM Currency: Turning Point?

This year has been particularly good for emerging markets and there are several reasons underlying the so-called EM rally. The main one is probably the yield hunt, in which yield-hungry investors move to riskier assets in order to have some decent return in the low interest rates environment, thus boosting Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years6 years ago
Commodities Long Term Investment Macroeconomy Markets Special Report Trade Ideas

Special Report – Oil: an impossible trade

Oil has long been one of the main drivers of the worldwide economy and for this reason it is closely watched by all investors and traders. The central role of what, back in the days, was called the “Black gold” is given by its high cross asset correlation. It has Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years7 years ago
Equity Indices Markets Trade Ideas

Q1 Earnings season – Time to get you some new shorts for the summer

Stocks have risen sharply since 2011, while earnings have lagged Consider this: Since the beginning of 2011 the S&P 500 has risen by more than 60%. On the contrary, aggregate GAAP earnings of the companies included in the index have actually dropped, while Non-GAAP income (a measure that generally smoothes  Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years7 years ago
Currencies Markets Quantitative Finance Trade Ideas

Behind the Yen rally: Japan’s era of negative rates

Japanese Yen touched a 17-month high of Y107.61 versus the US dollar this Monday. The safe haven currency has rallied more than 10 percent after Bank of Japan’s surprising negative interest rate decision on banks’ excess reserves in late January. Japanese government also sold 10-year bonds with a yield below Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years7 years ago
Commodities Markets Quantitative Finance Trade Ideas

Straddling on the oil

Not long ago, two major oil-producing countries (Russia and Saudi Arabia) reached an agreement, according to which the stake of output of those countries was capped at January-2016 levels. The move was very unexpected, since no one had bet that the deal would be reached, thus oil prices went through Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years7 years ago
Markets Single Stocks Trade Ideas

A system to profit: Banca Sistema!

The recent turmoil enduring since the beginning of the year affected in particular energy and financial sectors. Italian banks were hit by a panic sell off that shrank, and in the worst cases halved, their capitalization even though fundamental factors are strong for most of them and no rationality can Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years7 years ago

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