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Is This The Perfect Hedge Trade?
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 9:41am | 575Read More...The market may have reached a top—at least temporarily. Because of that, traders are looking for low cost ways to hedge against a correction or to set up a trading strategy if the market finds itself range-bound for a period. The next couple of trading days are going to be crucial. Traders want...
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July 18th Technical Analysis Perspective
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 8:04am | 1442Read More...A diamond pattern has formed in the Dow Jones Industrials. The question of the day is whether it is a consolidation pattern or a topping pattern? Its natural habitat is near tops. However, the volume the past two trading days has been slightly above average. Wednesday's price action did...
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The Real Deal on Wall Street: The Vortex of European Euphoria
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 7:56am | 301Read More...Investor, trader, watcher of the market from afar - we are three weeks into 2012 and the European Union is still…the European Union. Greece has not moved to readopt the drachma as a means to devalue its way out of its financial troubles. France and Spain have had relatively successful debt...
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Echo Volatility and Another VIX Double Top
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 2:50am | 105Read More...Back in 2007, I wrote extensively about the phenomenon I dubbed echo volatility, in which large VIX spikes are frequently accompanied by a second spike of similar size in the month or so following the initial spike. Following the twin VIX spikes over 8... Go to http://SwingTradingDaily.com for...
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Preparing for Volatility after Fed's Press Conference
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 5:20am | 599Read More...As the bi-winning Fed's chairman prepares to give his first press conference on Wednesday at 2:15pm Eastern Time after the April Fed meeting, which started on Tuesday, stock markets can't wait but started celebrating already. With Volatility Index (CBOE: ^VIX) dropped back close to its 2007 level...
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CBOE Volatility Show Protection Being Purchased (VIX)
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 12:40pm | 91Read More...Today traders speculated in SPX puts coming off the heels of the Bank of Japan stating they will take measures to devalue the YEN. The CBOE volatility index currently up 7% @ 26.22. SPY is currently down 71c. Futures traders have a their eyes on the 975 level as puts were purchased on the 975...
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VIX Goes Wild!
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 6:17pm | 137Read More...I have been advocating buying call options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index for the last week or so and this trade paid off in a major way today as the VIX surged. The Fear Index, as it is also known, moved 19.22% higher today to close at 22.27. The February 22.50 calls...
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CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Left Nowhere to Go But Up
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:51pm | 99Read More...The euphoria investors felt last week lingered into this week... though not long enough or with enough power to help. In fact, the only thing the optimism did was set up a dangerous situation with the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). In short, the VIX opened under its lower Bollinger Band (20 day, 2...
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Using The Options Volatility Index (VIX) To Determine Short Term Market Direction.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 4:25pm | 389Read More...The VIX as is commonly known, (Or Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index), is a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. Simply put, this VIX index is a measure of investor nervousness, it rises as markets fall and falls as markets rally. When its value...
