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Moab Benefits From Trump Victory With Mexican Exposed Retailer

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Mark Melin
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With “Trump trades” starting to look overcrowded – as AB Bernstein research recently suggested – Moab Partners ’ Michael Rothenberg must be smiling. The portfolio manager for the $568 million New York-based Long / Short hedge fund had established his trade on the short side of a border wall and is now tallying the results.

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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.