Webinar Recap: Mean Reversion and Volatility Trade Structures With school back in session in many areas of the country, I figured it was time for some nice educational webinars on options trading. First up: mean reversion and volatility trade structures, two advanced trading strategies that I use on a regular basis. Mean reversion may actually…
DetailsRemember that shocking moment four years ago when ratings agencies had the gall to downgrade the US debt rating from AAA to AA? It felt like the “shot heard round the world” as other countries sat up and took notice. The reason for the downgrade was more political than anything else, of course. The debt ceiling…
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Webinar Recap: Global Market Analysis With Ashraf Laidi Today we brought back Ashraf Laidi to our weekly webinar, a foreign market expert who’s appearance couldn’t have come at a better time (looking at you, China). Ashraf is the Chief Global Strategist at City Index / FX Solutions, founder of Intermarket Strategy Ltd., and author of…
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by Abigail Stevenson Once again, crude’s pattern of the last few weeks played out on Tuesday, with the averages crushed and the price of oil plummeting down to a six-year low. And while Monday saw some major rallies in the oil-and-gas complex, most of those gains were wiped away Tuesday. “When you’re dealing with a…
DetailsBuffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) has been a strong performer over the past couple of weeks, and with healthy earnings to support them and the start of the football season around the corner. Plus, chicken prices have started to settle down, and new stores are opening to be rousing success. In fact, during the Q2 earnings call,…
DetailsBack in 2011, a study found that the global bond market was nearly triple the size of global equities. To put that into perspective, McKinsey said there was $212 trillion in capital stock and bonds made up 75% of that number – and that was five years ago. I am quite sure it is even bigger…
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Webinar Recap: Volatility, Booking Profits, and Trading for Income with Mark Sebastian Today’s webinar guest was Mark Sebastian, the guru of volatility. He’s a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, author of the popular trading manual “The Option Trader’s Hedge Fund” and an all-star contributor for TheStreet.com’s Option…
DetailsMondelez is considered one of those ‘boring’, slow moving stocks that would put you to sleep. It’s a slow growing staples name, a spin-off from Kraft, whose major brand is Nabisco. Yet, as we see from the chart this is not a boring stock, nor has it been moving sideways. In fact, Mondelez has been…
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It seems like every other day there is an announcement of a data security breach – in the first half of 2014 there were 395 breaches alone with some major companies being compromised like Target, Niemen Marcus and Nuclear Regulatory Authority. Three separate universities (Maryland, Wisconsin and Iowa State) were victims of security breaches where…
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