SVOL News and Press, Simplify Volatility Premium ETF From 07/24/22

The FOMC meeting is scheduled for this Wednesday, July 27. The stock market is playing this Fed meeting as if it is a non-event. The market may find out the Fed is not ready to cave in just yet. The week of July 25 will be a big one for markets, with the FOMC meeting on ...

Volatility can sometimes be misunderstood as something to avoid, however, understanding volatility strategies can be useful in many trading environments. Historically, market participants purchasing protection against downside price movements are willing to pay a premium to compensate...

Inflation and macro trends are concerning and should impact the investment process. I discuss four very different picks which each have sustainable and high yields: O, WHR, SVOL, and VIRT. Together, they are high-yield, relatively uncorrelated picks with principle and dividend gro...

We expect elevated inflation to continue into 2023 due to the lagged impact of food supply disruption and elevated energy costs. Should a recession occur, its scale is likely to be limited by the reduced number of negative feedback loops. Consumers enter this slowdown with a large...

Investors are terrified. Such is what you would assume from recent mainstream media headlines and CNBC’s continuous run of “Markets In Turmoil.”. The massive Federal Reserve interventions, bailouts, and zero rates provided a perverse incentive to take on extreme f...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

A large call option trade on the VIX with a strike of 150 by year-end has the writings of the "50-cent trader." The strike of VIX at 150 is an example of extreme tail risk; at that level of volatility, the 2008 financial crisis would look like a small event. The trader buying extr...

Support was broken at 4,100, which quickly saw the S&P 500 trade down below 3,900. There is some support at that level, but there is a more well-defined support level at 3,700. There are massively oversold conditions in put-call ratios, breadth, and New Highs vs. New Lows, but an ...

Why markets have been falling ever since the Fed hiked rates? Why bonds may now provide improved opportunities for investors? Volatility likely isn't going anywhere anytime soon. So, what should investors do? For further details see: Markets Sell Off As Volatility Spikes...

Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09. The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the yea...