A few months ago, dividend stocks were all the rage. Investors and traders were stumbling over themselves to buy 2-5% dividend yield names, every other metric be damned. The best performing sectors in the 1st …
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I wrote some brief thoughts on the chart structure for TLT on May 10th, and not much has changed from a technical standpoint since then. This still looks like a rangebound market to me. But …
Continue reading10 year U.S. Treasury yields are 27 basis points in the past 6 trading days, from 1.63% to 1.9%, which is a large move for the government bond market. The strong jobs report was the …
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Chatter about the bond market has been reduced to a hush recently, as bonds have hardly moved for most of 2013. But the Treasury bond market is the largest financial market in the world outside …
Continue readingI’ve spoken to many traders recently who have pointed out the strength in bonds. Though they’ve all noticed that bonds are flat in 2 months as stocks are higher, the reactions have been varied. Some …
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EEM – options were extremely active today topping the most actives list with the largest trade being the sale of 111k of the March 43 Puts at .06 to close, vs buying 215k of the …
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SPX futures are up 0.5% this morning as Europe has a strong session, likely in anticipation of a favorable result from the Italian elections later today. With SPX futures retesting last week’s highs, I wanted …
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1. JCP – there was a buyer of at least 8000 Feb08 weekly straddles for $1.24 with stock trading $19.12. Stock quickly went up over $20. IV30 is up 4.5%. Stock had been down on …
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Two big prints that were both protective in nature. VIX – buyer of the Apr 20/25 call spread 150,000 times paying 0.70 to open. Quite a big bet, as that involved paying out $10.5 million …
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The Fed rate announcement is today, but far more important will be the actual text of the release. After the last FOMC minutes showed some participants discussing the end of 2013 for a removal of …
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