Bagging the street is a trading strategy in which a trader or traders try to profit from price changes created by large purchases of stock, called block trades. Traders who practice the bagging the street strategy rely on access to real-time trading information, which is something most everyday traders don't have.
In the case of bagging the street, a trader sees a trade get entered for a large quantity of shares of a certain stock. Aware of how the brokerage back office fills such large orders, the trader attempts to sneak in first and then ride the coattails of the block trade.
For the purposes of this discussion, Trader A sees a block order entered for 100,000 shares of ABC. Trader A assumes the trade will take some time to fill and, when it does fill, the purchase will drive the price of ABC up, at least in the short term. He or she attempts to place a trade to buy ABC at a lower price and in a smaller quantity to beat the block trade into the market in terms of execution.
After the block trade is executed, Trader A will sell ABC for a higher price due to the large share purchase. In short, Trader A used an unfair advantage, given the knowledge of the block trade if it is large enough to impact stock prices.
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what does a financial analyst do? well this and this and this.
so after all that analyzing of financial data what does the analyst actually do?
well she makes recommendations to you know do stuff. generally so that [man frowns at camera]
investors can make money or not lose money. and to be clear financial analysts
come in a few different flavors. pick an analyst who works for a stock brokerage
for example. well they produce reports which the brokerage then gives to
clients hoping that it will incentivize its clients to trade with the firm and
give the firm its business, which of course generates commission for the
stock brokers in theory. the goal here is to make money for the client. but the
more near-term goal is to you know get the client to pay attention to the firm.
this is a subtle but very important difference from a financial analyst who [one man stands behind another and shouts]
works for an investment company ie one who actually invests money for clients
and is evaluated based on the performance of those investments. a
financial analyst inside of an investment company like fidelity or
Franklin or American Funds cares only about how well the investment does. the
financial analyst does not have to juggle clients or worry about marketing
to non-professional investors or generating commissions for the firm. all
they have to worry about is beating the market or their index or whatever
benchmarks are set out there for them .in addition there are two flavors of [woman hits punching bag]
financial analysts on Wall Street more or less .by side -those are extensions of
hedge funds and private equity funds and venture capital funds and mutual funds-
they're all the people who analyze things from the perspective of a buyer
only like they buy the stuff they don't have to keep clients happy and get
Commission business. then you have the sell side which are largely just [graph showing stocks]
extensions of stockbrokers. stockbrokers hire the analyst to give smart opinions
on buying selling and holding stocks such that well they can go talk to their
clients about it and win Commission business from getting them to trade
through them by recommending Microsoft at forty two dollars and twelve cents
and stuff like that. there are financial analysts who work for the government as
well. these guys are usually housed in hell-like divisions of the government
called the Fed which assesses whether or not the [man in dark glasses behind computer]
economy is heating up cooling down or see-sawing like a spring day in Chicago.
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