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'Citadel Knows More Than You Do,' But Is There A Profitable Trade On Unity And Carvana?
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 5:01pm | 710ModernIR’s Founder and CEO, Tim Quast, shared his views on the dynamics of momentum trading during a Monday appearance on Benzinga’s "PreMarket Prep," emphasizing a key point for traders to bear in mind: modest, repeated returns on each trade, rather than large one-time profits, are the...
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EXCLUSIVE: Tim Quast Derides Jim Cramer's Fundamental Approach: 'Good Luck With That, It's Gambling'
Monday, March 27, 2023 - 5:23pm | 431Tim Quast, the founder and CEO of Market Structure Edge, recently asserted that the market is not a reliable indicator of how well the economy is doing. Interviewed on Benzinga's PreMarket Prep on Monday, the expert emphasized the importance of looking at supply and demand...
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The Dynamics Behind Carnival's Q2 Earnings Rally
Monday, June 27, 2022 - 4:58pm | 697When an issue is in an extended downtrend and rallies off an earnings report, the next task is to determine if the rally will continue. That is what shareholders of Carnival Corp (NYSE: CC) were confronted with in Monday’s session. Tim Quast, the founder of Market Structure Edge, joined...
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Why Naked Short Selling Is Not As Prevalent As You Think
Friday, May 6, 2022 - 2:24pm | 929Last summer, Benzinga PreMarket Prep, co-host Dennis Dick discussed why the idea that naked short sellers are behind the high short interest in stocks like AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) and GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) is a completely false social media narrative. “The...
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Why Tim Quast Says Tesla Stock Investors Should Wait For Better Buying Opportunity
Monday, April 19, 2021 - 1:12pm | 289Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) made headlines over the weekend after one of its cars crashed with no one driving. Tim Quast, the founder and CEO of Market Structure EDGE, talked Tesla Monday on Benzinga's YouTube show "PreMarket Prep." "People continue to believe in...
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Why Tim Quast Likes CCIV, Eaton, Disney, Palantir Stock
Monday, April 5, 2021 - 3:00pm | 452The special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp IV (NYSE: CCIV) has caught the eye of Tim Quast, founder and CEO of Market Structure EDGE. The SPAC announced Feb. 22 that it's merging with Lucid Motors. "[The] sentiment has bottomed, so I look at this...
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'Peak Stupidity': The End Of The GameStop Short Squeeze Trade?
Monday, January 25, 2021 - 1:46pm | 896A handful of heavily shorted stocks experienced extremely volatile trading on Monday morning, leading some experts to speculate the 2021 short squeeze trade may have finally run out of steam. The poster child of the short squeeze trade, video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), traded as high...
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We Asked A Market Structure Expert To Change One Rule About The Stock Market
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 9:06am | 795Tim Quast is the founder and CEO of ModernIR and Market Structure Edge, an analytics platform that provides signals using market structure. Quast has previously testified in front of the House Financial Services Committee about issues relating to market structure, such as Regulation National...
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Why Is The Structure Of The Stock Market So Complicated?
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 3:21pm | 755The unfortunate reality of the U.S. stock market is it is extremely complicated. There are exchanges. Broker-dealers. Dark pools. High-frequency traders. Alternative trading systems. And all of these bodies are interacting with each other millions of times daily for fractions of a second at a...
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This May Explain Why The Stock Market And Economy Have Diverged So Much
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 12:00pm | 792The fact that the major stock market indexes are at or near all-time highs despite glaring red flags in the labor market and other areas of the economy seems like a massive contradiction. We know the stock market is not the economy—but how can the two be so seemingly disconnected right...