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The VIX Dismisses Rising Rates with Trade War “On-Hold”
The major indexes posted slight weekly losses last week. The Dow and S&P 500 both fell 0.5% for the week, while the Nasdaq pulled back 0.7 percent. The move lower this week took place after the averages jumped more than 2% last week, kicking the S&P 500 above its 50-DMA and out of consolidation territory.…
VIX Drops To Lowest Levels Since January: What’s Next?
The CBOE Volatility Index fell for a sixth straight session on Thursday, dropping to 13.23. Briefly during the trading session, the VIX dropped below 13 before recapturing the 13 level. This marked the VIX’s lowest close since Jan. 26, meaning it has completely erased the massive spike it saw in early February, when concerns over…
Short Volatility For “Complete Morons”: So Says Jim Cramer
Do you recall the evil of the market back in early February? You know, those evil folks that caused the market to crash known as the “short-Vol/VIX traders”. CNBC’s Mad Money Host Jim Cramer penned an article only a couple days after the February 5th Volpocolypse titled “Jim Cramer: There Are 4 Real Culprits for…
S&P 500 Consolidation Persists: Kolanovic’s 3 Big Market Calls
We want to begin this week’s research report with a quick look back at what some might argue was the most important economic data from last week, the Nonfarm Payroll report. The report showed the U.S. adding 164,000 jobs and unemployment falling to 3.9%; the first time the jobless rate has dropped below 4% since the…
VIX-ETPs: Buyer Beware!!
Social media and social-financial media sites can be a scary place. Be it Twitter (TWTR), Seeking Alpha or StockTwits, they might be better understood to have a caveat emptor (buyer beware) sticker attached to the various social platforms. I participate and have participated in all of these venues in order to gather resources and disseminate…
Fed, PCE & Nonfarm Payrolls: S&P 500 Earnings Forecast Takes Big Leap
About half the S&P 500 companies have reported first-quarter results last week. Approximately 80% of those companies reporting results surpassed analysts’ earnings estimates, better than the 74% four-quarter average. And earnings outperformance was substantial, with companies surpassing average estimates by 9.4%, above the average of 5.1%, according to FactSet data. For the week, however, the…
Credit Suisse and Seth Golden “Put” Market Volatility Front And Center
U.S. equity markets rallied higher in late trading yesterday and after a hard and steep fall in the prior two trading sessions. On Tuesday, the Dow jumped by 567 points, or 2.3%, for its biggest percentage gain in two years. The S&P 500 closed 1.7% higher on Tuesday, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 2.1 percent. But after strong…
Super Bowl Of Volatility At-Hand: Navigating The Field Ahead
The Grand Market Sell-Off: Is that what we’ll be calling the pullback in the indexes in the coming weeks? Most obviously it remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure…this pullback was well overdue. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 700 points on Friday to cap an ugly week and after a…...
Are you *sure* you’re ready to join the short vol club?
After hearing about the tremendous returns Seth Golden has earned year after year, I felt that my own annual returns, which were already good, could be much better if I joined in the short volatility product trade. This meant taking short positions (or selling calls, buying puts, etc.) on UVXY/VXX/TVIX/VIXY/etc. and/or taking long positions on…
