JPM Quant Master Kolanovic Makes LT Prediction, Says Bull Market Getting Old

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Mark Melin
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JPMorgan’s quant master Marko Kolanovic is once again taking a mathematical look at the markets. Unlike his previous pronouncements, he is not predicting an immediate market crash, but rather assesses the potential to enter a longer term bear market. To understand where the stock market is headed, he takes a yearly outlook noting a divergence of opinion with the option market on the potential for stocks to enter a bear market. This is done as he considers correlation ratios with bonds and notes a much discussed correlation divergence between stocks and oil, putting on display cross-market correlation skills that point…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.