The Week Ahead 2/26/2018
What to Watch for this Week This week we have a heavy economic calendar. Lots of Data will be coming out, except employment. Congress will be working on their Infrastructure…
The Options Edge will Present at the Trader’s Expo in New York
Mark will be giving a talk at the Traders Expo in New York. He will discuss Optimal Trade Structuring at 4:15 pm on Tuesday, February 27. and Idea Generation at…
Don’t Forget About Dividends
There at theOptionsEdge.Com, we focus on active management of our investments. We take bullish positions in companies that we think are undervalued (i.e. trade below intrinsic value) due to some short-term…
Is Smart Beta really Smart?
Smart Beta is all the rage in the fund management world these days. Smart Beta is another way of saying "factor" investing. Define a factor you like, rank stocks by…
Is there a trade in Precious Metal?
On 16-January-2018 we published an update on the precious metals, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. At that time, the price behavior of these commodities was quite muted. Just as there…
Bond Market Update
The bond market has been taking it on the chin these days and for good reason. (1) The economy is growing faster which tends to increase real (nominal yields less…
Check out this Hedge against the next Bear move
We find ourselves talking about the performance of the popular equity indexes far more than we typically do. We do this because in fast markets like we are in now,…
The Week Ahead 02/19/2018
What to Watch for this Week We came back from one of the worst weeks on Wall Street with one of the best weeks on Wall Street. The S&P 500…
Regulator Looks Into Alleged Manipulation of VIX, Wall Street’s ‘Fear Index’
Mark was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday concerning the potential for manipulation of spot VIX at the moment VIX Options and Futures expire. The following is a…
Is Crown Castle Still King (CCI)
The REIT (Real Estate Investment Trusts) and MLP (Master Limited Partnerships) have enjoyed a multi-year rally starting in 2009 when interest rates started their historic collapse. REITs and MLPs are…