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Dave Nadig

2 months

My latest: The State of the ETF Market in 2024, with predictions for what we'll be talking about for the next little while, what will succeed, and what's a distraction.

ETFs in 2024: Prediction Time!

The industry is definitely mature. Now the competition gets brutal.

davenadig.substack.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Well, my daughter's college just closed. For the rest of the year. Everything online after break. Dorms closing. This is going to be a mass cultural event for Gen-Next.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

I lolled.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 months

A quick thread on this. So, my general take when looking at weird volume days is to try and figure out from the tape what the blocks look like. The TL;DR here to me is that someone/someones turned on their algo Friday. Here's all $HODL trades yesterday over 1000 shares. What…

Eric Balchunas

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Typically when the daily volume is greater than an ETF's total assets (as in this case) it means one big creation, a la DYNF getting put in BLK models earlier this year. I've never seen a grassroots trading explosion come out of nowhere like this. Curious what @DaveNadig thinks

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Me, explaining global capitalism to my kids:

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

I'm just gonna say this: If you or a very close relative (my wife, in my case) isn't a teacher, you have NO IDEA what they're dealing with right now. Screw your trolley problem. Every teacher in the country is in a horrible dilemma with very little support and no good answer.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

My dear friend, who is a therapist, made this sheet for her clients. It strikes me it's a lot of very good advice in one place. Pass it along.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Look, I'm losing money like everyone else who's just boringly-long, but at the same time: is anyone else kind of relieved we're having a few down days? The lack of reaction to real, novel uncertainties was freaking me out.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

If safely reopenning schools is incredibly important, then you would think .gov might have done SOMETHING to support that. Like, ANYTHING. Guidance, $, Resources, Materials, Training, Logistics. We have done NOTHING. Its just pure abdication. Instead we backstopped corp bonds.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Tired of soundbites? Me too. Here's my 5,000 word chat with @ARKInvest @CathieDWood . We cover a -lot- of ground about their actual investment management process.

ARK’s Cathie Wood: “Innovation Is Inherently Controversial”

ARK has been the subject of intense scrutiny over the past year, however much of the dialog has been in the form of short tweets, sound bites, and one-line quotes.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Spent 5 hours walking up and down Manhattan yesterday. First time NY since Feb. Was shocking to see how empty it was on a gorgeous day. So many boarded storefronts. So may favorite restaurants closed for good.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Why the options market may be the only one that matters. My latest: Long Vol - It's Always Different. Too many thank yous to list here but really enjoyed diving deep into this well (it's a deep well).

Long Vol: It's Always Different

I'm just going to go out on a limb here and admit something: I don't get volatility. I mean, I get the math, and I've read the books, but...

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

My Latest: $GME, TikTok, Semantic Density & RegNMS. It's not the '90s, and it's not (really) about gamma. This time it's different. (With embarrassing quotes from failures past.)

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Please, I am begging you: Do not send me your perfect backtested model that beat everything for all time. I am neither going to subscribe to your newsletter nor become your booster. If your model beat everything, you're already wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice right?

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Well, looks like I have to join a gang now.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

The most bananas SEC filing you will ever read. Fund shutting down because manager was just making up NAV numbers ... essentially. HT @choffstein

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

I nominate this for the greatest chart crime of all time.

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

The better-than-expected jobs report follows a series of other recent data that points to a V-shaped recovery. Take a look at these charts:

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Interesting -- according to @JeremyDSchwartz just now, $GCC has approval to add 5% Bitcoin futures starting next week. So... I guess Bitcoin is a commodity? (Ducks)

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

And if you're annoyed I'm not staying in my ETF-lane over this assault on the Church I've been a lifetime member of, I welcome your unfollow. Yes, I am angry. I am very very angry.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Since everyone's now gonna get spun up about cap gains rates, here's the actual data on the historical side. Feel free to tell me where the inflection points from panicky cap gains hikes are. Seems like massive oversimplification of what really moves markets.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

6 years

This piece from @ReformedBroker on tricking your brain into being a OK in a bad market is really, really insightful. Way better than "dry powder" nonsense. Actual actionable idea.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 months

There is not an ounce of my being that wants to be on a beach, in a city, on the ocean, in a desert or anywhere else in the world. For me, the chance to hike in a snowstorm means it’s the highest of high holy days. Overwhelmed with ontological joy and gratitude. #getoutside

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Bond ETFs are not failing some test, bond pricing services are. NAVs (for ETFs and MFs) are only loosely based on reality on the best day, and these are not good days. My latest here ->

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

9 months

What are YOU doing Monday afternoon? Come chat with @profplum99 and @jam_croissant about how 0DTE options are messing with market structure, the reality of "long gamma" and what the heck a normal investor or advisor should (or shouldn't) do in response!

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

1 year

I loved peak twitter. I am sad it's gone. I wish there was something to "move to" but it just feels like pure loss. I'm pretty sure I'll get over it. I'm easy to find for people who wanna find me, and I'll keep hanging out here as long as at least some of my friends are.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

My latest in response to @CathieDWood / @elonmusk on Passive investing: Yes, there are things to watch out for, but they have a lot more to do with flows than voting. My position here evolving with the research. ht: @profplum99 @GestaltU @choffstein

The Ethics of Indexing Redux | ETF Trends

Every so often, the handwringing about indexes destroying the markets gets to a fever pitch, and I'm obliged to at least put something out there. Well, it's been a year or so, so now's the time.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

Single stock ETFs aren't a systemic risk *yet*, but the levers are there: with a volume imbalance, they could be problematic at end of day. Definite "pay attention" time. I took a deep dive into the market structure and math:

The Math of Single-Stock ETF Rebalancing | ETF Trends

With the launch of AXS Investments' single-stock ETFs, there's been a veritable mosh pit of news coverage and public opinion.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

1 year

@herbgreenberg No horse in the race, but man was this a piece of work. I've read a lot of forensic investment research over the years, and while I have no personal knowledge of any of the facts, it certainly ain't "unresearched." This wasn't like, a ChatGPT prompt "write me a book on ..."

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

I keep reading all these "things to do since your stuck at home" articles and the gap between job-types has never been more apparent. I'm working at least 50% harder/longer than I was this time last year. I'm exhausted by noon, and catatonic by dinner.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Man, love him or hate him, but @KeithMcCullough is doing the @hedgeye morning call from a cold, dark, pipes-burst hotel in Texas and the combo platter of bonkers, manic delivery while sticking to the data is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. He might be losing it.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

8 months

My Latest: Figure out where AI can boost your workflow, whether your an investor, an advisor, or just a cubicle worker. For me? I replaced Google entirely with AI search.

The AI Post Hype Golden Age Has Arrived

VettaFi's financial futurist Dave Nadig separates hype from reality around AI, and provides a real-world example of how AI can be useful.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

My latest. Everything you wanted to know about a Bitcoin Futures ETF but we’re afraid to ask. Gets into all the potential “some worry” business, tax codes, contango, cayman’s, Canada, etc.

The Problem With a Bitcoin Futures ETF | ETF Trends

For most folks Bitcoin futures are honestly a pretty awful investment to get exposure to crypto. I've listed a few of their drawbacks below.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Here's my rundown on the @SenateFinance discussion draft trying to kill ETF's tax-fairness advantage. Spoiler alert, I am not a fan.

ETF Taxation In The Crosshairs | ETF Trends | Expert Insights

Ron Wyden has proposed eliminating the critical sentence in the tax code upon which the foundations of ETFs were originally poured.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

This makes the rounds every summer and it still makes me laugh. #Getoutside but stay careful out there!

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

So while the DoJ tries to blame the “radical left”’the actual arrests are of white supremicists torching stuff. Got it. We live in Orwellian times.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

11 months

3 hours in the woods with @ppearlman … he’s utterly infectious in his optimism and belief in everyone’s ability to improve their health and well-being. Left the parking lot completely energized.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

The future of finance (at least in my official @Vetta_Fi branded 🔮) is going to run right through @biancoresearch territory. Few fish, but we spent the time trying to test run tokenized asset management, bond trading and defi, and laughed in the sun. #getoutside

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

So, $BITO continues to track its INAV very tightly with very thin spreads. Perhaps more importantly, CME futures continue to track Spot Bitcoin basically like they have been. Supply and Demand exist, but so far, the market structure is transmitting them efficiently.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

6 years

ETF Deep-Nerd Alert: The comment letter from @iShares on the ETF Rule is a master class in how creation/redemption actually works. Read pages 6-12 (with the footnotes) and you'll be smarter. I know I am now.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

I have achieved WFH nirvana. A purpose for every screen. For every screen a purpose. (Yes, I’m ridiculous).

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

I couldn't take it anymore. My thoughts on Robinhood, order flow, and why you probably shouldn't care.

Robinwho? A Long Term Investor's Guide to Order-Flow Selling

There's been quite a bit of buzz in the financial press about the rise of retail investors, and in particular, Robinhood.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

OK, so, a whole-lotta noise around $ARKK and how they manage liquidity. Here's my deep (sorry, it's 3k words) convo with the COO, Tom Staudt. We hit on a whole range of topics from how they use custom baskets to how they handled unloading Wirecard.

ARK COO Tom Staudt: A Deep Dive on Liquidity

I sit down with ARK Chief Operating Officer Tom Staudt to explore some of these harder questions being asked of the firm.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

New England fall hiking is the best kind of hiking, the best kind of fall, and the best part of New England all at once.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 months

The next thing I look at is how many TINY trades there are. And the answer here is "an enormous number" -- I could load all this in a histogram but thats a ton of work. After hitting "Page Down" 20 times and seeing page after page of 10 share, 10 share, 5 share trades, I know…

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

As @EpsilonTheory would say: Art.

LIBERATION IS NEAR

@headcrack_456

2 years

now this is cinema

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

7 months

A fantastic piece from @Ritholtz on the whole Michael Lewis outrage machine, with a side order of one of my favorite moments at any dinner I've ever been at, but that was not my story to tell. Glad Barry did!

Cancelling Michael Lewis - The Big Picture

“If you want to read a moral condemnation of crypto theft, you can get that anywhere. You go to Michael Lewis for character and story.” –Matt Levine Michael Lewis’s new book “Going Infinite:...

ritholtz.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Seems like the single biggest day of inflows into $ARKK in history. @ARKInvest has pulled in $8.6 Billion this year so far. Just an incredible run of asset gathering.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

After a bunch of requests, I wrote up this morning's @ETFTrends presentation. An Imperfect Theory Of What's Going On. Replay link in there as well.

Welcome to the Thunderdome: An Imperfect Theory of What's Going On

Let's start with a couple of quick notes: what we're seeing in GME, and whatever else comes next, is most likely a blip.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

New England fall is amazing. No filter, seriously. Just another weekend walk. Chester, MA

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

2500 feet of climbing. 1400 calories. 3 hours. 2 good friends. 1 great morning. Thanks for the hike @choffstein and @BrianKelleherNY … good to be seeing folks again!

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

I’m just extremely grateful to work for a place where I can both be myself (I mean, look at this picture, I’m *ridiculous*) and also really reach to do the work of making finance better, every day, for the actual people it impacts. Which (checks notes) is pretty much everyone.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

7 years

When @ritholtz spends 20 minutes recommending a book, listen. I just openly wept on an airplane finishing a non fiction book on Octopuses.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

6 years

Your finest work Josh. RT @ReformedBroker : The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously

"We're doing things differently here...Guys, I feel like you're not hearing me...What are they gonna do?"

thereformedbroker.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

My latest @Vetta_Fi : Huh. It turns out I have *thoughts* about Payment for Order Flow, commission free trading and NBBO price improvement. I never know until I jump into the rabbithole. () What's your take:

PFOF is a Net positive

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

1 year

@scottmelker 56 and same. The older I get, the more convinced I am I know nothing and that kindness is the only superpower. That includes being kind to my dumbass self-at-20 in retrospect!

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

18 days

@biancoresearch Because it's the super-smoothed set? You know you can get every states filings down to the individual unadjusted in the literal same document from the DOL right? I think you showed me! The numbers move A LOT if you look under the hood. Why is this suspect? Are you suggesting…

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 months

I MEAN come on. Someone fire the writers. This is not a believable reality

Gary Gensler

@GaryGensler

4 months

The @SECGov twitter account was compromised, and an unauthorized tweet was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Going on day 4 of being locked out of my @coinbase account ... no responses to emails, no phone number you can call, no ability to interact with “my” account in anyway. And people wonder why there’s suspicion. At least @CharlesSchwab has a phone number.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

Gonna respect the game here and make you go fill out the form so they send you the letter. It’s a 22-page BANGER of an argument against the Volcker playbook. You can disagree with @jam_croissant conclusions, but some Ender’s Game Locke v. Demosthenes level school going on here.

Cem Karsan 🥐

@jam_croissant

2 years

We're making the latest 🥐 investor letter public! Sign up to our mailing list for access 👇👇

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Thanks for all the well wishes on the big announcement that I'm joining @TomHendrickSun and @TomLydon to form the ETF-Nerd-Voltron. More info when I officially start in a few weeks.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Watching Hamilton tonight. I'm welling up almost every single button. It's a love letter to everything it feels like we've lost, and warcry for the future. Saw it 4 times live, and i didn't know how much i needed it, right now, on TV, with my family screaming the words.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

TIL, my grandfather worked a second shift at a tank factory after his day job in the ‘40s. My 78yr old mom: “it’s insane we’re not mobilizing like we did then. Why aren’t you driving vaccine around or working in a plant?”

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

I grew up on a farm with guns around. Took my son to a range for his 16th birthday. I’m not an anti gun zealot. But folks, the US has had 147 mass shootings this year. This country has a gun problem. This shouldn’t be a political statement.

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1 year

Today didn’t suck. #getoutside

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 months

A bit of news! Today is my last day @Vetta_Fi ... It's been an amazing two years with an amazing team, but time for new things. More info here:

After VettaFi ...

1/19/24 was my last day at VettaFi... so what now?

davenadig.substack.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Wait, I can't figure it out: Is low oil good or bad? Three weeks ago it was GREAT, now high prices are GREAT?

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Dave Nadig

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4 months

Because it's now an FAQ: $BITO had options trading 2 days after it listed in 2021 (10/18/21), because it's structured as a traditional 1940 Act fund. The new Spot ETFs are generally trusts that, like GLD, will require new 19b4 approval from exchanges for Options to trade.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

I think sometimes #FINTWIT dismisses folks like @kylascan as "social media people." Nothing about this is really "social media." This is just solid investment writing that happens to have a different tone than the stuff us middle aged white guys write. I'm a fan.

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3 years

Full write up here with @gannonbreslin And Youtube will be posted soon

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 months

Notably, this pattern wasn't just in HODL, the nearly identical pattern is present in most BTC ETFs, here's BITB for instance -- same "algo cliff" at 1230. Lunch breaks for the win:

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Dave Nadig

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5 years

This piece by @ReformedBroker on investment newsletters is totally on point. I’ve also been thinking a lot about the increasingly important role of video: basically no advisors do it yet.

Quarterly Letter

We killed our quarterly investment letter to clients two and a half years ago and nobody said a word.

thereformedbroker.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

Wow. This is a big deal. I know the AUM is pretty decent, but $1.4B for 47,000 clients seems like ... $30,000 a client. Comparison: SCHW is worth $171B and has 32m clients, or $5,500/client. yes yes, apples, oranges but still interesting.

Eric Balchunas

@EricBalchunas

2 years

JUST IN: UBS is acquiring Wealthfront for $1.4b in cash in effort to get Millennials and Gen Z investors. Welathfront is a robo advisor w/ $27b in aum and 47k clients ht @tpsarofagis

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Dave Nadig

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4 years

Wow, I guess I shouldn't leave my DMs open. Apparently suggesting the presidents daughter and son in law aren't in the top 10 experts on epidemiology and economics earns me death threats! Wheee!!!

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

Finally got to do a double #getoutside with @DeadCaitBounce !

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Dave Nadig

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Current status: hiking as far away from humans as i can get all day, whilst still spending evenings near enough to civilization that i can sit in on guitar at the pub after dinner, for as many days as I can, wash rinse repeat: #getoutside #makemusic

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Dave Nadig

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1 year

The 100 minute @exchangeETF session on the future of finance with @DiMartinoBooth @profplum99 @tom_morganKCP @biancoresearch @IAmGeorgiaS and @GestaltU goes live at 11. Live streaming link, bibliography and slides should be up at our scratchpad website:

This is 85bb65.

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2 years

At this point some VC should just hire @kylascan and get ahead of the rush.

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3 years

Steepest hike I know in the Berkshires. Not highest but oof. Great morning. 2000ft straight up.

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2 years

Not the worst writing view. Watching the light emerge on new snow. Pretty hard to beat.

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3 years

Why I'm incredibly excited to host y'all next February. We're launching a new event called Exchange. It's gonna be lit.

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5 years

My rebuttal to Bloomberg's "ETFs are a nefarious tax dodge" story:

ETFs’ Tax Fairness Advantage

ETFs aren't a 'tax dodge,' no matter what the media says.

www.etf.com

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5 years

This piece from @MstarETFUS on ETF ownership cost is so complete it makes me jealous I didn't write it. Foundational reading right here.

Calculating the Total Cost of ETF Ownership

Fees are just part of the equation.

www.morningstar.com

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3 years

Late summer New England hiking often means hours in the green tunnel. I find it deeply peaceful. Happy Labor Day folks. #getoutside

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Dave Nadig

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3 months

But, if you load up HODL in TRLM Surveyor (a forensic tool I dig), you can see that the algo absolutely sat there until around 1230, then went home. All those red and green spikes are "bursts" of quoted volumes that are outside the spread.

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(Also, I could be wrong about all of this, because market structure changes continuously, so if you know I'm wrong, send me stuff so I can figure it out!)

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2 years

Amazing (if hot and strenuous) day of hiking paid off in wonder. #getoutside

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Dave Nadig

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3 years

This, from @MorningstarInc , will fly under the radar, but this is the best work on bond pricing how it creates weird reality dispersions when it comes to rolling up fixed income NAVs. Click, then download the paper, if you care about bond pricing.

When Bond Prices Are a Matter of Opinion

A look at how different firms price the same bonds, including corporate bonds, Treasury bonds, and more.

www.morningstar.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

Is anyone else just super uncomfortable with today's narrative? I keep reading stuff that has the tone of "we're through it! Party on!" not "OK, maybe we're ready in a few places for the next brutal month or two."

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4 months

I have no idea who to give credit for, but the word-nerd in me just died laughing.

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Dave Nadig

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2 years

New From Me: I sat down with @michaelbatnick of @RitholtzWealth to talk about what it means to be an innovator inside an RIA. We discuss their forward-thinking approach to Crypto, Custom/Direct Indexing, ESG, tactical, and the future of advice:

Inside Ritholtz’s Most Innovative Strategies With Michael Batnick

Michael Batnick is managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management, an RIA that serves over 1,000 high net worth families and oversees nearly $3 billion.

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 months

If we zoom in you can see one of these "headfakes" clearly: The green bar is Bids, and over on the right you can see that for this few second window, 100k shares shows up "bid" but 9 cents below the last trade. Three seconds later its gone never having traded, but it served to…

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Re-upping for the morning crew: My take on $GME. What if it's more about about TikTok and curation algos than Gamma. Contains embarrassing anecdotes about *me*. A gift of schadenfreude on this snowy Wednesday morning.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 months

And just as a fun sidenote, Friday was the first day we saw this quote pattern for these funds, and they took the afternoon off to go Skiing it looks like:

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

A smart person would have chilled out today. I spent it digging through a thorny discount in $GDX I couldn't let go of. You're ETF nerdery for the weekend:

Anatomy of a Discount: GDX, NUGT & DUST | ETF Trends

The last two days of trading will go down in the history books, and folks like me are going to be spending months digging through the tape, doing forensics, and trying to understand where cracks in...

www.etftrends.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

When @EpsilonTheory wrote about corrupt non-partisan political responses to crises, he essentially "called" this whistelblower complaint. Craziest, dysfunctional thing I've read today, and it's been a day: ->

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

So, I went on @jposhaughnessy 's wonderful show, @InfiniteL88ps , and talked about Metaverse stuff. I also talked about ... a lot of other stuff ... so I thought I'd make a thread with a few links to all the authordropping weirdness. A 🧵

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

Delighted to have @hardikasingh28 from @WSJ as a boat partner today @ #campkotok chatting ETFs, rural Traditions, energy policy, the VettaFi mission and journalism. She crushed fish of the day with this 17 inch Bass. #getoutside

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

6 years

Many of y'all know that @Matt_Hougan is my best friend in the whole wide world, so I'm grinning from ear to ear that he's making a giant career move. To the stars Matt!!!

ETF Industry Veteran Matt Hougan Joins Cryptocurrency Index Fund Manager Bitwise

The Bitwise HOLD 10 Index Fund substantially outperforms Bitcoin in First Two Months Since Launch

medium.com

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

2 years

Starting to fill up my Fintwit Pokémon gym with this evidence that @jus10castelli isn’t just an AI construct. With bonus @choffstein for reality anchor. #ExchangeETF is definitely about the people.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

4 years

$BLK will receive no compensation for the Fed-ETF buying, and will rebate any expense ratios from BlackRock ETFs in the program. This is the right answer, and the transparency is great.

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Dave Nadig

@DaveNadig

3 years

Views worthy of the climb. Happy spring. The worlds waking up.

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