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Market Intro CNBC: Fri 3:01PM EST US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) endured a roller coaster day of trade on Friday as we approach the close. Spot VIX is down nearly 13% on the day. Trade tariffs were set in place as of midnight on Friday, causing a tumultuous dip in the early ses...

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On Tuesday, May 7 th , U.S. markets freaked out because of the fear that there might be a trade war looming. The NASDAQ ( QQQ ) dropped by a bit more than 2% and the VIX jumped from about 15 to a daily high of 21.5, before settling back to close at about 20. The near-term options, represented ...

After the significant correction that took stock prices appreciably lower during the final three months of 2018, stocks made back all of their losses over the first four months of 2019. The E-Mini S&P 500 futures contract rose to a slightly higher high at the end of April as the Fed backed...

Market Intro CNBC: 11:09AM EST Attached is the 24-hour chart on S&P 500 futures. US indices ( SPY , DIA , QQQ ) put on a rather stunning recovery in Monday afternoon trade, only to give it all back in the overnight session, with continuing red ink in Tuesday trade. Spot VIX has l...

Market Intro SectorSPDRS Spot VIX is up over 25% in Monday trade after President Trump rattled financial markets with two tweets indicating that enhanced trade tariffs against China were around the corner. US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ ) were down quite a bit in the overnight sessi...

Market Intro CNBC: 12:51PM EST US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) wasted no time in celebrating the strong jobs report for the month of April; the S&P 500 is once again bordering on all-time high territory. Spot VIX sank by a whopping 10% on the positive price action. Thought...

In a recent post , I demonstrated how to invert options prices to build the option-implied distribution of future returns. I built the implied distribution of returns on the S&P 500 (using options on [[SPY]]) from April 25 th to December 20 th of 2019. The outlook for returns on SPY are...

I'm going to do something a little different today. I'm going to start my article with the conclusion, and then everything that follows is the more detailed explanation of how I arrived at the following simple statement: Conclusion: M1:M2 VIX futures contango is 15.23% on Apr 15, 2019,...

The S&P 500 closed within one point of September 2018 all-time last Friday. You'd have to think "everyone" is watching what happens this week. I wouldn't be surprised to see a pullback here since the S&P 500 usually takes a few tries to poke through a longer-term high. Market Bread...