Once again favoring material that focuses on the VIX and volatility, options, market sentiment, and ETFs, here are some of the posts from around the blogosphere (loosely defined) during the past few days that have given me something to ponder:
- Are Gold and US Treasuries in Conflict? (Gregor MacDonald)
- Gold Volatility Popping Again (Wayne, Sigma Options)
- Bernie Schaeffer – Overbought VXO (Nick Perry, Schaeffer’s Investment Research)
- Corey’s Interview with Larry Connors – Part 1 (Corey Rosenbloom, Afraid to Trade)
- Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) – Here Comes the Vol? (Ophir, Livevol)
- How Index Options Settlement Works (Mark Wolfinger, Trade King)
- Coaching Clients that Stay Stuck (MarketPsych, Richard Friesen)
- A False Dichotomy (Tadas Viskanta, Abnormal Returns)
- Gallup Economic Monthly: Confidence Up, but Wallets Shut (Gallup)
- Peak Employment (Jesse’s Café Américain)
- How Do Bubbles Create and Kill Jobs? (Charles Davi, The Atlantic)
- Bernanke’s High-Wire Juggling Act (Michael Shedlock, Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis)
- The September Decline Was Right on Schedule (John Kosar, Asbury Research)
- The State of Short-Term Mean Reversion (Michael Stokes, MarketSci)
- The Good ETF (David Merkel, Aleph Blog)
- Report: Schwab Nearing and ETF Launch (Tom Lydon, ETF Trends)
- When Trading for a Living Becomes Living for Trading (Brett Steenbarger, TraderFeed)
- One Year’s Supply of For for $800 from Costco (Jonathan, My Money Blog)
- Chinese Surpass West as Fine Wine Collectors (Jack Roseman, Roseman’s Eruptions)
- Mass Layoffs by Industry (Nathan, Flowing Data)
- What Optical Illusions Tell Us About Us (Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed)