In the Precious Metals Arena, Choosy Investors Prefer Platinum Trading commodities is a very tricky endeavor on the very best of days. While one can make an attempt to interpret the supply (production, recycling, etc.) …
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Dan teased this post a bit in his MorningWord when he discussed the elevated levels of implied vol and how that makes it difficult to use options to hedge a portfolio in already uncertain times. …
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XRT was a trade where we had the direction right but not the timing or trade structure. We initiated the trade when we felt the ETF showed signs of waning momentum targeting a pullback to …
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Volatility ETFs like VXX and XIV are quite popular. But I often wonder whether the people trading them truly understand what they are buying and selling. I’m going to try to explain exactly what’s going …
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I have no idea why gold goes up or down. I get the reasons and correlations investors believe underlie the shiny metal’s movement, but none of it seems logical to me on fundamental terms so …
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It’s fairly indisputable, there is a sort of rolling sell-off going on in prior bull market leaders. All you need to do is look at the recent 15% declines in stocks like Apple (AAPL) and …
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At this point, you know the drill. China has been in the midst of epic fiscal and monetary policy for years in an attempt to spur investment, create a wealth effect and attempt to halt their …
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On Sunday night, as Chinese equity markets were getting ready to open following the government’s unprecedented moves to stem declines, my focus was on where the Shanghai Composite needed to hold: Shanghai Comp’s 200 day …
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A little more than a month ago we made a short term at the money bearish trade that financial stocks would demonstrate weakness prior to the March 18th FOMC meeting Here was the trade from …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading: 1. SPY – despite closing down nearly 1.5% on the day, the largest trade of the day was a massive bullish roll …
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