Mark Melin

Alternative investment practitioner and ValueWalk author Mark Melin says that there has always been algorithmic trading in the stock of Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA). He was referring to a trading system that Investopedia defines as using advanced mathematical models for making transaction...

The Pentagon announced Friday that it had launched an airstrike against Islamic militants (originally operating as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but recently renamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in northern Iraq. This came just hours after President Barack Obama said the...

Mark Melin is the author of three books, including High Performance Managed Futures and The Chicago Board of Trade's Handbook of Futures and Options. Melin, a former adjunct instructor in managed futures at Northwestern University writes about hedge funds, alternatives investing and Wall...