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Why are the Euro and the TLT rallying on the same day?

There are lots of “pair trades” around.  Generally they involve a long and short of two securities in the same industry group or asset class.  One of my favorites was EBAY (buying) vs.read more

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VIX down and OVX up

There is no doubt we have had a whippy couple of days.  Just when I though the Taper, FOMC and NFP were going to dominate the news along comes the Middle East dictator of the hour accused of using...

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VIX Crush is Probably a Buy

Now that it appears that Syria is no longer a concern and that China, Europe and US data are at least not BAD; traders felt pretty comfortable normalizing the VIX curve and crushing the VIX...

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Does the Sep VIX vol tell us anything?

The market is continuing its rally this week into the FOMC meeting on Wednesday.  What I find odd is there is no solution in Syria, no confirmation on QE and Congress is about to get into Cage Match...

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Singing the Larry Summers blues

Late in the day the broad market is up about .5% with the NASDAQ doing diddly since AAPL is in the toilet.  While there was some positive news out on the Syria front it is hard to believe it was enough...

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The Fed pulls a fast one

 With 30 minutes until the end of the trading day we are looking at a very confident market.  I commented in the blog yesterday that there was substantial confidence going into the FOMC today.  Of...

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Will this upside skew ever die?

It is kind of a quiet day as we wind toward the close and my thoughts are wandering to what will happen next.  The Fed is pumping again so my question is do we go higher or lower?  The stock market is...

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Short term IV is getting cheap and could get cheaper

For the first time in a long time, there were no market fireworks after the FOMC minutes announcement.  The key thing is that the Fed sees less ominous financial conditions as the pain of the 2008...

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INTC is still inside

ATTENTION:  The Options Insider and Option Pit are co-sponsoring a special one day event.  Read about it here.Mark highlighted the volatility frackorama yesterday, and IV continued to implode in both...

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The FOMC Rope-a-Dope

The market is not moving a whole lot today in anticipation of what the FOMC is going to decide on bond purchases.  I don’t know for sure, but something between a small Taper and no Taper.  With the...

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Is the Financial Crisis over?... at least for now the Fed says yes.

Without parsing what the Fed said, they are officially starting to wind down their extraordinary measures.  Maybe Ben pulled the Congressional leaders aside and said “Hey you idiots, I am done and...

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This time the Fed ain’t saving you

Thank you to all those who attended our Bear Market Trading seminar. Look for the March Seminar topic coming soon!The Fed is continuing the modest tapering of bond purchases and thankfully ignoring the...

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Is this the revenge of William Wallace?

See our VIX webinar info below!So the Fed is leaning toward 2015 to start raising rates? There is not much different in that announcement as the Fed watchers look to parse all the of the twists and...

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Did the Fed just do another QE? Or did I miss something?

Maybe it was the Europeans or maybe it was some jitters in China or Africa.  The FOMC suddenly lost it zeal for raising rates.  The economy here has been growing but not enough to satisfy our rate...

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Realized vol show no signs of slowing down

Our next webinar is here:  Using Volatility To Trade Direction“Learn Use Volatility to Put the Wind at Your Trade's Back”Blog Image: read more

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Rates stay low so why are the Home builders so volatile?

The stock market got a gift from the FOMC minutes release today by leaving the status quo largely unchanged.  I guess there is enough jazz in the mix with oil prices, Russian solvency and high yield...

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VIX Set For Crazy Settle?

In August of 2013,  the day the VIX of VIX settlement also happend to be the day of the a FOMC announcment that many thought might be when they would announce the beginning of the end of QE in the US....

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The Greek Tragedy turns into a Comedy

See what income generation is all about here It looks like the Greek Drama happening overseas ended up being a comedy more than a tragedy.  That is good for investors and good for the Greeks.  We will...

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So NFP was a big deal!

Surprise, surprise as stocks took a bit of a header today, on get this, a great jobs number.  Yes the number was too good and now interest rates look like they could go up after all.  The Euro and gold...

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NFLX has competition

We have another day like last week where the rally came from nowhere and is most likely not going to go anywhere.  It feels like the algo driven market catches any new piece of news about the FOMC...

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