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…
Is There a Message in Netflix’s Price Action? Is there a Trade to be Made? Are the FAANGs and VIX Telling Us We Are Entering the Manic Phase in Equity Prices?
Readers of The Options Edge know that our preferred scenario for the overall equity market was a drop in prices of as much as 10% as defined by the popular…
Hello Equity Market Volatility
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VIX Signals “No Risk in Sight.” Now What?
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Do Equities & High Yield Debt Provide Sufficient Risk Premiums
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To VIX or Not to VIX
Investors look to the VIX index for guidance concerning future volatility of return on the equity markets in general and the S&P 500 in particular. Many people want to “trade”…
Investor Complacency Everywhere You Look
Ever since the election, the equity markets have moved higher day after day. Merrill Lynch Global Research recently pointed out, for example, that the S&P 500 Index has gone 105 days…