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Jefferies "On almost all measures, risk appetite is insatiable"

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Mark Melin
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There is an “insatiable” risk appetie" in markets, a Jefferies report notes, as the “front loading of positions in some futures markets” is causation for a price drop in certain asset markets. There are first, second and third level concerns that center around a risk appetite that “has produced a windfall risk backdrop for equities,” the report notes, pointing to such issues in a variety of global stock, currency and bond markets.

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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.