What is the VIX and why is it relevant to investors? The Volatility Index, known as the VIX or FEAR index, helps measure how much the stock market might swing in the future. It looks at options prices on the S&P 500, hinting at how investors feel and what they expect in the market. 1. […]
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The Twelveth Week of Trading 2022. Last week’s powerful global equity rally started the week on a shaky footing; participants were nervous to see which direction the markets would move. Most markets did finish the week positively, but not convincingly so. The squeeze higher in the US met resistance at the wall of moving averages
The Eleventh Week of Trading 2022. As we mentioned last week, stocks were poised to have a rally, “we do see a bounce in equities and a pullback in Commodities.” The markets had the best week since the 2020 election; all indices squeezed higher. The Nasdaq soared over 8% last week, and the rest of
Fifth Week of Trading 2022. Investors were grateful to leave January trading jitters in the rearview mirror. January was a bad start to the year for investors, and most are happy to see it behind them. US Markets soared into midweek, only to pull back in Thursday’s session, warning participants to be cautious. The US
“More recently, the West began using technology to flatten the very physical evidence of natural cycles. With artificial light, we believe we defeat the sleep-wake cycle; with climate control, the seasonal cycle; with refrigeration, the agricultural cycle; and with high-tech medicine, the rest-recovery cycle.” ― William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy “Sometime before the year
Recent events reminded me of what my colleague sent to me on 22 March 2020: ‘If humans ate the bat that gave us the Wuhan Virus, what did the bat eat? Perhaps the bat ate a butterfly… The “butterfly effect” is an idea, commonly used in “chaos theory”. It shows that a small change… like a “butterfly
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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” -Leo Tolstoy Since we last posted on the US Debt on April 14, 2020., the US Debt has grown by $988,212,848,164 That’s almost another Trillion Dollars in 1 month. The National Debt is
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We have added a short on the S&P 500 -IVY, gone long volatility again, and added some Cows.