Equity Investors Nervousness Calms a Bit… Now What
Equity investors seem to have "gotten a grip" on themselves the past few days. Yes, there have been some equity price gyrations, but the moves both up and down have been…
Equity Prices Smacked ….. Again
It seems we find ourselves talking about the big picture once again. Price movements are so violent that even if you pick the right stock, you still get run over.…
The Selloff Begins
Inquiring minds reached out yesterday asking if it was too late to participate in the selloff of equity prices. After all, a 600 point (2.3%) selloff in the DJIA, a 55…
So Volatility is Higher than Last Year | Now What?
Unless you are an investor living under a rock, you know that the volatility of returns we are witnessing in the marketplace are lately are much higher than what we have experienced since…
Is Volmageddon Over?
The equity markets are in the process of "recovering" or working on an "oversold" condition. If the equity prices are recovering, then we should see the major averages break out…
The VortIX
The following is a guest post from Christopher M. Uhl, CMA, MOSM, Editor of 10MinuteStockTrader.Com. Today he shares his thoughts on the VIX and the various VIX ETPs, some of…
Do not make rash decision during this market turmoil.
A couple of housekeeping items before we move on to today's note. Mark will be speaking at the MoneyShow in Orlando, Florida on Saturday. Hope to see all of you there. When…
Leverage is a 2 Edge Sword with VIX Products
The big market selloff is all we are hearing about on the news tonight. TOE subscribers were given warning that a selloff could be around the corner. The charts we…
Is the VIX Quietly Telling Us Something or Is It a Head Fake?
The volatility markets tell us something about the cost of speculating on the size of an asset's price move or the lack their of. If an investor thinks a big…
The Week Ahead 12/04/2017
What to Watch for this Week The Senate finally passed a tax bill by a slim margin with a vote of 51 – 49. Not surprisingly, the coalition built for…
What Just Happened ? | Did Something Change Yesterday?
Yesterday, we witnessed a number of seemingly random events. This got us to thinking, was there any common cause for what happened or are these simply a cluster of random…
An Alternative Way to Play a Smackdown
There are a number of ways of playing a crash in share prices. The traditional methods investors use would be to buy out of the money puts by the truckload…