Alright, maybe it’s starting to sound like the boy who cried wolf, or merely my fairly convicted view that the concentration in the Nasdaq among a handful of stocks will eventually be the stock market’s …
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Here was some apparently untied directional options activity that caught my eye in today’s trading: MET: Shares of the life insurer saw a sharp intra-day reversal after initial opening down at a one month low …
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The other day I updated with some thoughts on our VIX trade and what polls to watch for further spikes in volatility into the election. Today I want to update that trade to take off …
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The VIX (CBOE Volatility index) recently touched the fairly low level of 13 on October 24th. Since that day, it has seen seven straight up days and is now above 20 on today’s nearly 20% …
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To state the obvious, after a long Summer dirt nap, volatility has picked up over the past 2 weeks after the SPX fell quickly through its 50 day moving average before finding support at a …
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Here is some (apparently) directional options activity that caught my eye in today’s trading: Apple (AAPL): the stock continues its insane weekly gains, nearing 12% from Monday’s lows, with the stock up 3% at a new …
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Earlier, Dan reiterated a point we’ve been making here on the site, in that vol is historically cheap, based on historically low actual volatility through July and August. As JP Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic pointed out …
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Dan is traveling today, and so is most of Wall Street it seems. Even the big news of the day comes from a Summer vacation location as Janet Yellen gave her highly anticipated speech in …
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With the the S&P 500 breaking out to new all time highs after its recent consolidation on the heels of the second consecutive better than expected non-farm payrolls number this am, it makes sense to …
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Sometimes I can sound a bit like a broken record. I see risks to the current market / economic backdrop and feel that other market participants / pundits are overlooking given their long biased mandates. …
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