Wellington

"The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all." - Leo Buscaglia If you think we are only interested in the machinations of those mythological creatures that lurk in the mysterious and complex depths of market microstructure, then you may be missing the plot here. While we do tend to wallow in the weeds from time to time in an unprecedented way, you may have noticed the steady drumbeat of the DaVinci quote that "everything connects to everything else." No, that redundancy is not laziness to find a new quote. It's a purposeful reminder that there is a feedback loop going on here where all the species of "trees" - from the Citadel and Virtu trees to the Vanguard and BlackRock trees and all the flora in between - offer clues for the evolution of the "forest." If you didn't catch it in a previously published post, the exhibit below is the latest incarnation of Alphacution's asset management ecosystem map that is intended to depict the reverberations of new information [...]