We’ve been pretty thematic in our trading the past few months on RiskReversal. Hedge your portfolio (e.g. IWM, SPY, QQQ), avoid anything with strong dollar and international exposure and hide out in treasuries (e.g. TLT), …
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We had a hunch 2016 could get off to a rocky start. With the way stocks creeped higher into year end 2015, shaking off headwinds left and right, we thought it wise to detail some …
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Heading into the Christmas Holiday week we detailed some portfolio hedge ideas we thought made sense given the uncertainty surrounding the start of 2016 and sell offs we have seen in each of the last …
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For months now it has been our view that the Russell 2000’s weak relative performance has made the etf on the small cap index, the IWM, one of the best equity portfolio hedging vehicles, at …
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The Fed is doing their best to orchestrate a soft landing for their rate lift-off. Yeah, that makes no sense. But I made it up myself and it makes me laugh. The FOMC are quick learners …
Continue readingAs I write the S&P 500 is down about 40 basis points on the year. A year that saw a bubble inflate and pop in Chinese stocks, the long waited reflation of the U.S. dollar, …
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In case you missed it, the two year chart of crude oil….. has been the inverse of the two year chart of the DXY, the US dollar index…. Yeah, I know you took your Econ back …
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Three of the largest stocks on planet earth (AMZN, GOOGL & MSFT) are gapping up 10% this morning, gaining more than $100 billion in market cap in a flash. What strikes me is that in …
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On the Central Bank front, the focus this week was on the ECB, and this morning the bank’s head Mario Draghi for all intents and purposes reiterated his multi-year long commitment to do “whatever it takes” …
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On a couple of occasions this past week I have hit on the poor relative strength from the June highs to the August lows of small cap stocks measured by the Russell 2000 (for our …
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