Anxiety is rising, and that’s not great for equities.
The VIX measures the market’s expectation of volatility over the next 30 days as implied by a weighted strip of SPX Index options. When investors are nervous, options premiums, and…
Emerging Market Stocks: EEM
One of the great underperformers of the past 16+ years is emerging market stocks. In fact, we cannot think of an asset class that has done worse. Herein lies an…
Ark Innovation Fund: ARKK
With the price of equities in a downtrend, we once again look to our favorite stock to short to hedge any portfolio. This article is for paid members - please…
Affirm Holdings, Inc.: AFRM
One thing Americans are good at is figuring out how to buy stuff on credit. The latest iteration of this is the "buy now pay laters" payment solution. This article…
Strategic Crypto Reserve
Through Friday, bitcoin had fallen 28% from its intraday highs on January 20th. This swoon mirrored the post-election rally between early November and mid-December when the crypto trade soared on…
Is the Bear Coming out of Hibernation?: QQQ
Here at the options edge, we suggest a mix of bullish and bearish trades on individual stocks and sometimes ETFs. The reason is that individual stocks become undervalued and overvalued.…
Strap on a Pair (of Put Spreads)
Pairs trading is a market-neutral strategy that involves buying one asset while shorting a related asset to profit from temporary pricing divergences. Typically, traders select two highly correlated assets—such as…
Close a Few Trades
Sometimes, things go as planned, and profits come faster than expected. Like in the old "A" Team TV show, "It's nice when a plan comes together." This article is for…
Door Dash: DASH
Investors are getting a bit leery of the hyper-growth & mega-cap stocks. We see this as the NADSAQ 100 seems to be gripping its bullish leadership role to a backseat…
Big Tree Fall Hard
not see the forest for the trees idiom US : to not understand or appreciate a larger situation, problem, etc., because one is considering only a few parts of it…
