The women I know love clothes and gold and I think both at least at the wholesale level will be going on sale in the very near future.
Just in Time for Mother’s Day: Cotton & Gold
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Volatility Futures Are Frozen
The TWTR lock up ended not with a bang, but a plunge through the ice.
Volatility Trading Digest – Sell in May and Go Away?
Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.
The NFP Trade Is Dead…. For Now
Yesterday was the lowest number I can remember going into an NFP report in the last year.
Crude Breaks Its Trend Line
In the last two weeks June Crude oil futures have come down nearly $5/barrel and are presently trading below the $100 psychological level for the first time since 4/8.
Term Structure Is Starting to Break
The Fed surprised no one and is continuing to taper out of their bond buying program.
No Decay
AAPL pulled every trick in the book with good earnings, a stock split, and a buy back.
AAPL Says, “Take That Straddle Sellers”
This is why we don’t sell cheap straddles
As Temperatures Rise, where Will Heating Oil Prices Go?
See chart 1 below for June heating oil futures over the last 12 months
What’s Working Now?
The easy approaches to the market that worked so well in 2012 and 2013 have performed poorly so far this year
Volatility Trading Digest – Rotation Bewilderment
There are two unanswered questions currently facing the equity markets.
Trading Tech Talk: The Great Flash Boys Debate
All HFT all the time.