In case you missed it this past weekend, I was quoted in Barron’s The Striking Price column written by Steve Sears – Options Strategies for Bearish Investors. The column highlighted some large bearish options trades in …
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You can attribute the 6%, 5 day rally in the S&P 500 (SPX) to whatever you like. The negative sentiment might have gotten a tad off-sides leading up to the end of the quarter. But …
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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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Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money I took a look at the implied move in the S&P 500 between now and September expiration, which will include the highly anticipated FOMC rate decision on Sept 17th: …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Aug 10th – Aug 14th:
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By now you know the score. Small cap stocks in the form of the Russell 2000 (IWM), despite still being up on the year, have of late shown relative weakness to large caps, down 7.5% from its …
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Yesterday I had the pleasure to talk with Eric Jackson, founder of Hedge Fund IronFire Capital, on his weekly Podcast where we discussed the current market environment, tech stocks, past bear markets and how I got …
Continue readingHere is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. AAL – about an hour before the close a trader paid $4.55 for 30,000 Jan 40 calls and sold …
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Nearly a month ago I put on a bearish trade in the SPY for a whole host of reasons (read below), and targeted the end of this month. To refresh, from May 29th: TRADE: SPY …
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In my almost 20 years in the business, I have never seen a sustained period of volatility in most major asset classes outside of equities (currencies, bonds and commodities) that did not correspond with some sort of looming …
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