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When to Take Profits and Losses
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Option Block 313: Yelling at Yellen
Option Block 313: Yelling at Yellen
Dr Copper – What’s the Diagnosis?
In the last five weeks copper prices are lower by 6% finding mild support at the 61.8% Fibonacci level just above $3.18. Expectations of a continued slowdown in China has weighed on futures.
Volatility Trading Digest – Strategy Review & Takeover File
Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.
Volatility Trading Digest – Walk the Line
After declining down to the operative and seemingly impenetrable upward sloping trendline before promptly reversing to the upside just before the release of weaker than expected January employment numbers on Friday, there is a case to be made that the equity pullback is over.
Vol Sinks, Could Go Lower
There is little doubt that stocks are a different beast at the start of 2014.
Volatility Trading Digest – Strategy Review
Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.
Option Block 311: VIX Drops the Ball
So much for single-digit VIX, as it passes the 20-handle
Volatility Trading Digest – January Barometer 2014
After a weak January, the time has come to update the January Barometer, also called the January Effect.
VIX – Doomsday Scenarios Revisited; It’s the Volatility of VIX That’s Our Signal, Not the VIX.
This is a follow up to a five-part series I wrote on the VIX and doomsday scenarios.
The VXX Is In the Same Place as It Was in October
The ISM report was not great yesterday. On the bright side, bad news is bad news again.
Friday Market Angst
Stocks rallied on Thursday on a dose of good earnings and brisk GDP growth, coming despite the slow down in government spending.