Posts Tagged ‘vix’

• Are Correlations Really that High?
  stevenplace, August 30th, 2010 at 1:58 pm, Comments: 0

  Adam Warner over at the DoR (now part of the Stocktwits family) has  a post up about how high correlations are in stocks. We’ve seen this giant macro conveyor belt drive the risk trade on and off for the past 18 months, so it is reasonable that liquidity and performance will be correlated across the [...]

• Stocktwits Brunch, 8-29
  stevenplace, August 29th, 2010 at 9:52 am, Comments: 0

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  IWO Into the Close, 8-27
  stevenplace, August 27th, 2010 at 7:34 am, Comments: 0

• 4 Charts You Need to Watch Besides the VIX
  stevenplace, August 25th, 2010 at 4:47 pm, Comments: 0

  Since the crash of 2008, the VIX has become the favorite “fear gauge” of TV pundits and individual investors. But like many other indicators, they are best used when reinforced with other data. In other words, you can’t look at the VIX in a vacuum.
  I bring this up because many are pointing to how the [...]

• How the Market Crash will Affect Option Premiums
  stevenplace, May 10th, 2010 at 10:39 am, Comments: 0

  Another Monday, another gap up. Except this time it was around a 3% upside move– more evidence of an increasingly volatile market.
  Also, the VIX is seeing some tankage going on, as the traders who bought vol into the weekend Europe news are seing their premiums collapse as geopolitical uncertanity fades, at least for now.
  I’ve had [...]

• Buying Volatility Into Earnings
  stevenplace, April 26th, 2010 at 12:02 pm, Comments: 0

  One of my favorite Monday morning reads is the newsletter that comes out from ivolatility.com. They usually list about 4-5 option trade ideas and it gives me a few fresh ideas to start looking at going into the week ahead.
  This week they post two interesting ideas around the same strategy: buying into the volatility runup [...]

• Stocktwits Brunch, 4-24
  stevenplace, April 24th, 2010 at 1:52 pm, Comments: 0

• Will the VXX Ever Outperform?
  stevenplace, April 19th, 2010 at 11:01 am, Comments: 0

  The $VXX has become the butt of many investment jokes for the first half of 2010. It’s continued price drop in the face of a collapse in volatility has caused many “investors” to average in on their position, and it seems that whenever we see a slight uptick in the $VIX, there’s a huge hoopla [...]

• Reading the VIX Tea Leaves
  stevenplace, April 12th, 2010 at 10:10 am, Comments: 0

  I’ve said this before, basic technical analysis on the VIX is stupid because you can’t trade it. It’s a statistic and has its own underlying voodoo. However, I do keep an eye out on patterns that I feel may have an edge. We just had one today.

  I’ve seen this pattern before, and it occurred back [...]

• Option Strategies to Protect Your Portfolio
  stevenplace, January 27th, 2010 at 2:27 pm, Comments: 0

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