SPY had its lightest volume day since the half day session prior to the 4th of July holiday. Options volumes were similarly light (SPY options traded about 70% of the 1 month average volume). 1. …
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Major U.S. indices closed at another record high on Friday, and the S&P 500 index is now up 5.5% so far in 2014. Options volumes in single stocks remain subdued, though SPY options volumes picked …
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VIX and SPY options were active while single stock options volumes were subdued. The S&P 500 index closed at another record, and VIX spot remained near 5 year lows (the low print of 11.05 is …
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Earlier today there was a large trade in the SPY that caught my eye, where a buyer paid $2.23 for 45,000 June quarterly 190 puts to open when the etf was $191.24. This is most likely …
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I wrote about the turn in emerging markets in a Macro Wrap post almost 2 months ago: The verdict is still out on whether this is just another short-lived bounce for FXI, EEM, and the …
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The financial press can’t stop talking about it. The S&P 500 has had the longest stretch (468 days) without a 10% correction, the first time this has happened since 1996 (good discussion here). We have …
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Lightest options volume of the year, with even SPY options trading only about 60% of average volumes. The single stock options market was dominated by names involved in M&A activity. 1. T – Stock has stalled …
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If U.S. equity investors were handing out a scorecard for ytd performance, on a relative basis, the S&P 500 would have to receive a B+, up 1% on the year, only down 1.7% from the …
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Another day of IWM acting terribly, clinging to its 2014 support for dear life…another day of SPY getting awfully close to breaking out to a new all-time high. That’s been the story for much of …
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The outperformance of the U.S. stock market vs. the rest of the world has been a well documented theme of the past 5 years. The S&P 500 index nearly tripled from the 2009 trough to …
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