A couple of new volatility products were just released. These are similar to what has come before with the VXX and XIV but instead focus on the weekly VIX futures. Here’s REX Shares founder Greg …
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Volatility ETFs like VXX and XIV are quite popular. But I often wonder whether the people trading them truly understand what they are buying and selling. I’m going to try to explain exactly what’s going …
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A couple of weeks back I wrote about the VIX and “long” VIX etn products, particularly the VXX (reposted below). Since we’ve seen some volatility between then and now I wanted to check back in …
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In a post last week I went over some potential portfolio hedges using VIX and SPY options. We have a preferred VIX (long vol) strategy that we put from time to time and we’ll probably …
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Yesterday, we looked at Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) and its impending earnings report. This story is fascinating to watch from a brand perspective as there was a lot of talk back near the stock’s highs …
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When managements and boards have little idea how to stimulate organic growth, they look to financial engineering to create earnings growth by retiring shares. If necessary, they use their equity as currency or lever up …
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Today’s price action in WFM was a classic market situation where price moved first, and then market participants scrambled to assign a potential reason for the move. That led many traders to speculate that Carl Icahn …
Continue readingPandora is a name we discussed on today’s “Talking Numbers” segment on Yahoo Finance. The stock is up 5% today (and up about 30% in the past 7 trading days) after MS upgraded it with …
Continue readingAMD stock has been on a tear in the past 2 months, almost doubling since early April on big volume buying. I was on Talking Numbers on Yahoo Finance with Dan Nile, an experienced technology …
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After reading my quick post from regarding JOY’s Q2 earnings tomorrow a friend, who is long the stock a tad higher, asked me for educational purposes what overlays I would add to a long stock …
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