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"It seems like we're due for a consolidation at some point, but what we saw was awfully mild, " said Brian Lazorishak, portfolio manager and quantitative analyst at Chase Investment Counsel.
This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitative analyst at UBS bank.
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Quantitative analyst Vahan Janjigian , editor of Forbes Growth Investor, believes that computer and peripheral distributor Bell Microproducts (nasdaq: BELM - news - people ) is on the rebound.
For Chris Johnson , managing quantitative analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research, publisher of Bernie Schaeffer's Option Advisor, the overarching and ominous theme is the head-and-shoulders top the market seems to have formed over the last four years.
His first job at a high-frequency trading operation was as a quantitative research analyst at Citadel, a giant Chicago hedge fund, which he joined in early 2009.
This was due to selling related to disappointment from those longs who had been looking for some kind of announcement on quantitative easing, said Frank Lesh, broker and futures analyst with FuturePath Trading.
To find them, I run a weekly quantitative screen that seeks out stocks with a combination of analyst upgrades and positive earnings surprises to identify rising analyst expectations, a bullish signal for stocks in any market.
As a result, some traders who had established long positions, or bought gold, on hopes for further quantitative easing are now exiting, explained Michael Gross, broker and futures analyst with OptionSellers.com.
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To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new study to be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.
Michael Gross, broker and futures analyst with OptionSellers.com, said a lot of the gold bulls were hoping for a third quantitative easing.
Martin Barnes of Bank Credit Analyst, a research firm, points out that the direction of official policy (low rates, quantitative easing, big deficits) looks inflationary but the economic fundamentals (a big output gap, sluggish credit growth) look deflationary.
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