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Here we go again in the stock market. After reaching a record high in early October 2018, the stock market correction took all of the leading equity indices appreciably lower throughout the fourth quarter of last year. In late December, when stocks were looking their ugliest, the market turned...

Market Intro CNBC: 11:24AM EST US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ ) are down modestly in the Wednesday session, though small caps ( IWM ) are experiencing a bit more pain in relative terms. That said, volatility is flat-to-down alongside stocks, showing a lack of concern on the part of trad...

Market Intro CNBC: 10:02AM EST US stocks (SPY, DIA, QQQ, IWM) are down modestly to open the week. Still, S&P futures hit an overnight high of 2876 , and have drifted steadily lower since then. Sector action is mixed, with tech ( XLK ) and communications ( XLC ) driving losses. S...

Big Moves In The VXX and VIX Over The Past Two Weeks Since the lows that were struck in late April, we have seen a sharp rise in both the CBOE VIX Index as well as the VIX Futures and the Volatility ETFs which are derivatives of those futures products. The VIX index saw a move up of close ...

The memories of the stock market correction that took place during the fourth quarter of 2018 had just about faded into the market's rearview mirror as the indices reached new all-time highs in late April. It took four months for the stock market to make back all of its losses, and the price a...

Lopsided Selloff On Monday Monday brought the first day in 2019 that featured extremely lopsided volume figures. Over 90% of NYSE ( VTI ) volume was associated with declining issues. We know a 5% correction falls into the normal and to be expected category. How concerning is a 90% down d...

For all us volatility traders, checking the VIX futures term structure is something we all do several times a day. A solid source for the information is vixcentral.com, and one of the many useful metrics we're looking for there is the level of M1:M2 VIX futures contango/backwardation. (I wrote...

Last week’s minor adjustment to the value of the stock market has in my estimation incorporated just a small probability of a messier trade war. Fully pricing in risk for a full-scale trade war, including less predictable countermeasures from China, would likely be much costlier to stoc...

I want to thank the readers who offered comments to my earlier article ; I’ve enjoyed the exchange of views. In that article I described a model that translates changes in the shape of the VIX futures curve into market-timing decisions and I explained why I sold on the opening May 7 th...

By OpenMarkets Jack Bouroudjian looks at the psychology of a market with extreme volatility. He highlights how, in futures markets, micro contracts could help manage some of the risk. Editor’s Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Rea...