Top Five Stock Criteria for Options Trading
By all accounts, activity in Options continues to grow. Not only are Options escaping their “niche” stature as a derivative instrument due to broader exposure via media advertising, but their use is also growing due to necessity. For the average retail stock trader, many of today’s popular stocks are far too expensive to purchase. Want…
This May Not End Well: Energy Junk Bonds Stage Comeback With Oil At $50
Last month, Goldman put the exclamation point on a relentless move higher for crude prices when the bank wrote the following in a widely circulated note: “The physical rebalancing of the oil market has finally started. While supply and demand surprised to the upside commensurately in 1Q16, leaving the market oversupplied by 1.4 mb/d, we…
Brexit Jitters Drive More “Yen”-Sanity: Lessons From The Bloodbath In Asia
Ok, so Microsoft bought LinkedIn. If you picked up some LNKD back in February after the disastrous Q4 call, good for you. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk about the trends driving markets on Monday because understanding the ebb and flow here is going to be critical over the next…
Brace Yourselves, Volatility Draws Nigh, PIMCO Warns
One of the key themes I try to communicate to investors is that in the current environment, you simply can’t understand markets if you don’t understand geopolitics. This has always been the case to a certain extent, but it’s arguably more true today than ever. The Saudis, for instance, are wielding their sway over oil…
Selling Across the Board?
TheoTraders look for risk parameters on down days. In this weekend update let's look closer at the broad based sell off, bonds, and VVIX. What does this all mean for the week ahead?
“Fear And Greed”: Central Bank Front-Running And What It Means For Traders
“Fear and greed [used to be] a continuum, allowing for an ebb and flow with continuous price discovery and availability,” Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow wrote on Thursday. “What we have now is pedal to the metal front-running of central banks and the nagging fear that when the fun ends there won’t be a bid anyway, so…
Free Fallin’: Global Yields Collapse, But Beware The Snapback
It’s a perfect storm. An abysmal NFP print in the US, a worsening outlook for global growth, jitters over whether Britain will vote to leave the EU, and billionaires effectively coming out of retirement to buy gold and make “a bunch of big bearish bets.” And then there’s the lingering threat that China could simply…
Bonds going parabolic
Treasury bonds continue to march higher. Let's review what this means for the stock market.
Soros “Makes Bunch Of Big Bearish Bets;” Buys Gold, Miners
It really shouldn’t come as any surprise to market watchers that billionaire, philanthropist, Democratic donor, and breaker of the British pound George Soros has turned bearish on a few things. After all, Soros’ views on the prospects for China have been well known for months. Earlier this year, Soros indicated in an interview with Bloomberg…
HYG Meltdown: The Simplest Guide You'll Ever Read
Investors and traders alike often find it difficult to get of the way when freight trains are barreling down on them. Even when conductors like Carl Icahn have been blowing the horn as loud as they can for more than a year. Sometimes, you can't blame them (them being the homegamers). Retail, for instance, had…