We got a great question in our QnA earlier and I wanted to use use it to expand the answer into a post. Here’s the question: In light of the belief that we are headed …
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I’ll keep this short and sweet this morning. From what sort of risk ignoring dimension are investors disregarding the volatility in, of all things, U.S. Treasuries. And why are they placing little if any concern …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. OIH – A little less than an hour after the open, a trader paid 1.80 for 20,000 of the OIH …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading: 1. ORCL – options volume ran nearly 10x average daily volume, with much of the activity coming in one large …
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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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Welcome to the New Year. If you read this space regularly then you like trading, and you use a portion of your risk capital to take advantage of price volatility that creates short term trading opportunities. You also …
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Back on December 10th (read below) we discussed the potential for the Russell 2000 (via the IWM) to close at our near the prior 2014 highs. We detailed a defined risk way to play for such an …
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There has been a lot written about the under-performance of the small cap Russell 2000 Index (up 1% ytd) to that of its large cap brethren the S&P500 (up 11% ytd) in 2014. On more …
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There are no shortage of strategies and instruments to hedge a along portfolio of stocks, etfs and/or indices. In today’s MorningWord (here) Dan had some thoughts on the initial steps that largely had to do with …
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TLT has actually outperformed SPY in 2014. That’s quite a feat considering we’ve had another double digit percentage gain year-to-date for the S&P 500 index. TLT has been in a very steady uptrend since its …
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