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Trading Volatility

on 05 13, 2010 | No Comments

Trading Volatility

The CBOE Volatility Index jumped to over 40 last week with the drop in market. I have been a buyer for many months. I never predicted a 1,000 point drop, but it is very clear to see that if the mark

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Shorten Your Trading Time Horizon

on 05 13, 2010 | No Comments

Shorten Your Trading Time Horizon

After the market drops like it did last week, the one thing that a trade has to do it become protective.  By this I mean that you have to assess your portfolio as to what can happen.  I have bee

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VIX Jump

on 05 5, 2010 | No Comments

VIX Jump

Most of you have been following my webinars with my former company and know that I have been a big believer in owning implied volatility.  The macro environment points to much larger moves and

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Housing Shadow Inventory

on 05 1, 2010 | No Comments

Housing Shadow Inventory

What is the Housing Shadow Inventory and How Big is it? Housing inventory is the amount of houses that are for sale on the market.  A number that is often used to calculate the real estate market

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Gold and Silver Potential

on 04 30, 2010 | No Comments

Gold and Silver Potential

Yesterday I saw that Silver had a nice positive move taking out short term resistance of $18.61 on the Silver Future to settle at $18.491.   This morning it reached $$18.795.  Our next resist

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Greece and Portugal Downgrade

on 04 27, 2010 | No Comments

I had to write a quick note that the market is slightly reacting to downgrades to Greece and Portugal's sovereign debt.  This has been on the forefront of our radar for over 3 months.  That is l

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Goldman – Counter-Party Risk

on 04 23, 2010 | No Comments

As we all know by now, the SEC is investigating Goldman.  Some call it a witch hunt to make the SEC look better.  Some take the opposite side where they are calling Goldman the devil.  Well I

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Institutional Love

on 04 22, 2010 | No Comments

Hopefully everyone has seen how the market as of last week was up 48 days straight without a 1% correction, until Friday expiration. It took Goldman Sachs and Google to make the market take a breather

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