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Volatility Review: A look back at the week from a volatility perspective

  • VIX Cash: 10.63
  • VVIX: 80, off recent highs.
  • VIX Futures: Front month premium to cash: 2.1, two month premium to cash: 3.5

Russell’s Weekly Rundown:

  • VIX Options: ADV – 580k; Thurs – 638k, Weds – 613k, Tues – 863k, Mon – 427k; VIX Call/Put: 2.5/1
  • Earnings season dramatically underwhelming so far.
  • Google, MSFT, INTC, PayPal, SBUX
  • OIV/OVX – 29.50
  • GVZ – 14.74
  • TYVIX – 5.65

Volatility Voicemail: Question of the week, plus listeners have their say

Options #QuestionOfTheWeek – Lots of earnings on the horizon. Which company will outperform their earnings straddle by the largest margin?

  • Alphabet – $GOOGL
  • Microsoft – $MSFT
  • Intel – $INTC
  • Starbucks – $SBUX
  • Question from VolBug – Hi Mark, Can you and the crew give you assessment of SVXY and whether you think it tracks well and what are some of the vulnerabilities?? Thank you sir.

Crystal Ball: Your prognostication headquarters

Last week:

  • Mark L. – 11.55
  • Mark S./Andrew – 12.01
  • Russell – 12.34

This week:

  • Mark L. – 11.50
  • Mark S. – 11.05
  • Russell – 12.99
  • Bill Luby – 11.78