What The S&P 500 Term Structure Said
In equity markets, a selloff doesn’t really count until it gets the term structure up. The only two occasions when we got close to backwardation...
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The Economy’s ‘Bread and Butter’ Sector is Back in Recession
The Federal Reserve has ‘manufactured’ a relentless bull market for stocks while kicking the economy’s ‘bread and butter’ sector – manufacturing – into recession territory....
How a Friendlier Germany Might Affect Options Markets
An article published in Der Spiegel on Monday is causing quite a stir for its suggestion of a policy about-face by Germany. Angela Merkel and...
The Shameless, Obvious & Unreported Cheating Tricks of Politicians and Wall Street – Part II
According to an article by Rolling Stone, big banks control and manipulate financial instruments worth some $900 trillion. You’d think it requires unimaginable sophistication to...
Is the Market Reducing Long-Term Volatility Expectations? (Requires Free Sign Up)
In response to my earlier post on why options markets are being overly sensitive, Eli Mintz offered an interesting alternative explanation of the data: @condoroptions...
When Short Gamma Trading is Your Only Hope (Requires Free Signup)
From early March through last Friday, there were really only a few ways to make any profits in the S&P 500, and looking at which...
Weekly ETF SPY: Russell 2000 ETF – IWM (Requires Free Registration)
Risk is rising when leaders turn into laggards. After outperforming the S&P 500 for years, the Russell 2000 failed to confirm the S&P’s new all-time...
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Requires Free Registration)
Gold is down 22% from its early October high and people are scrambling. None of the fundamental reasons supposedly favoring a continued rally in metals...
7 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use
In regards to the S&P 500, it was a slow week with the index mainly hovering below its unchanged line but in the end it...
Are Corporate Earnings and P/E Ratios a Leading Stock Market Indicator?
As usual, Alcoa kicked off the quarterly earnings ritual. Corporate profits will be on display for weeks to come, but are earnings a leading or...