Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Hey Dudes.Guess What Time It is Garbage Time!




Joshua M Brown at the reformed broker:  Garbage time, also known as "junk time", is a term used to refer to the period at the end of a timed sporting event that has become a blowout when the outcome of the game has already been decided, and the coaches of one or both teams will decide to replace their best players with substitutes.This serves to give those substitutes playing time experience in an actual game situation, as well as to protect the best players from the possibility of injury.  Garbage time owes its name to the fact that that period in a game is frequently marked by a significant drop in the quality of game play.
1. Anyone who's had a good-to-great year is playing light, their books are closed and the track record is not being put at risk. Profits and losses at these same desks have likely already been harvested as well. So, in general, outsized trades are only being put on for window-dressing, tape-painting or other non-traditional reasons. Basically, this means not to make too much of what you're seeing, stop chasing cars like a cartoon dog with its tongue hanging out.
2.  Garbage Time is a total "amateur hour." Buysiders like myself (especially those who've been on the sell side) know better than to come into this week with any real orders of consequence. The kid who's been left behind to execute trades while the Big Dogs are in Turquoise is probably not your best bet, lol….

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