It’s difficult to assign exact blame for the volatility we’ve seen in U.S. stocks. There are several factors you’ll hear, most often the FOMC’s impending exit of ZIRP, falling commodity prices and the rise and …
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Bear market rallies can be cruel traps. We are not suggesting we are in a bear market just yet, but as we have been saying for months, the path of least resistance is no longer …
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Last night I got back from a vacation that I left for on August 21st. It figures that the stock market crashed in between. While crash may be a bit extreme, in comparison to the lack of volatility …
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We recently closed a short biased trade in the retail etf XRT for a small loss. We got the direction too right and didn’t have the proper trade structure on for the quick correction in …
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On July 2nd, when the S&P500 (SPX) was still comfortable in its then 5 month trading range between 2050 and 2130, I wrote a post titled Don’t forget what you are celebrating as the pre-market futures caught …
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As a part-time financial pundit, I have so much to say, and usually such little incentive to say it outside of the pages of RiskReversal and the TickerDistrict. For the most part, viewers of CNBC …
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CSCO reported better than expected Q4 earnings after the bell last night: The company’s adjusted profits rose 7 percent to 59 cents a share, while revenue increased about 4 percent to $12.8 billion. Wall Street …
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Wearables. Google brought us the first supposed mass market entrant from a large U.S. tech company a couple years ago with Glass, and now Apple with the Watch. I think it is safe to say that …
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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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Event: Costco (COST) reports their fiscal Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 2.3% one day move which is a tad rich to the 4 qtr avg move of …
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