The spot VIX has seen a decent pop the last few days coming off its Thanksgiving week lows. Because of that it’s a good time to take a look at our VIX trade and how …
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In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been targeting some of the high fliers lately as it looks like their parabolic run has come to an end, at least for the time being. We’ve generally targeted …
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MCD has broken above the $99 level that was my mental stop in the put butterfly position that I initiated 2 weeks ago. At this point, the trade is a bit of a double whammy, …
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Back on Nov 1st we closed a Nov Call Butterfly in EBAY for a gain (here, immediately below) and rolled the exposure out to December with a wider call fly. Well, today the stock has …
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More than a month and a half ago we put on a bearish position in GLD with the thought that gold barely rallied as the VIX approached the highs of the year, and we would …
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Is it just me, or over the last month has there been a little bubble among the financial press and punditry in calling the equity markets a bubble? Personally I don’t find the exercise very …
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A few weeks a back I wanted to make a bullish play in AAPL heading into the holiday selling season. Since I bought the near the money Dec 525/550/575 Call Butterfly on Nov 1st (below), …
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Earlier today we posted some details on the listing of Options on TWTR, just seven trading days after its IPO (here-TWTR Options Primer) and the conclusion on pricing of options is very simple, given the …
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We received a thought-provoking question yesterday in our Your Questions Answered section of the site from a shrewd subscriber: Hi, Now that VIX is in middle 12 handle, is it worthwhile to consider a trade …
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On a very strong day for the broader indices on Friday, I noticed MCD still ended the day lower, one of only a few stocks in the S&P top 50 that was lower on Friday. …
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