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If anyone doesn't know yet based off this month , and VIXmageddon in 2018 , and the 2008 financial crisis - the VIX, or fear index as it's known to have been called from time to time, rises quite rapidly when the stock market falls. There are all sorts of reasons for this, but the primary on...

Market Intro CNBC: Tuesday Close It wasn't just the US markets ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) that launched higher on Tuesday, folks. Bulls forcefully bid stocks higher in European bourses as well ( VGK , EWG , EWU ). CNBC: Tuesday 12:35PM EST S&P spot VIX prints at just a touc...

Stocks made new lows Monday, but fear is receding. So far, my guess that last Thursday marked the worst of the crash seems to be holding up. The Vix has peaked, but stocks have yet to bottom, which calls to mind what happened in the 2008-9 period, when the Vix peaked months before stocks botto...

Bill Ackman is an American hedge fund manager who is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Occasionally, he appears on CNBC, the business news network. Ackman is a self-proclaimed activist investor. He rose to fame with a high-profile short position in Herbalife ( HLF ),...

From fiscal stimulus packages to countless rate cut and QE bazookas, the kitchen sink was thrown by governments and central banks worldwide at stopping the tsunami of selling in the stock market. Yet the effort proved futile, as the S&P 500 ( SP500 ) dived -14% and closed at lows of the we...

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Here is an interested large options trade Volatility bet, noticed by Jay Soloff . Last year can be roughly divided into two market regimes. There were periods of high volatility and market choppiness, notably in June, August, and early October. Then, there were the stretches of low and fall...

A recent large options trade is making a big bet that markets will remain calm, reports Jay Soloff . Both 2018 and 2019 have been characterized by periods of choppy markets and higher volatility. It’s been quite the change of pace from 2017, where it seemed like we would never experi...

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On Thursday, July 25, the US stock market was sitting at a level that was not far below its recent highs, which were at record levels. Tax and regulatory reforms have bolstered corporate earnings leading to new peaks in the leading indices in the equities market. While investors have been si...