VIX and More

This was a very quiet year for the VIX, with the volatility index posting its second narrowest range for the year since 1995, trailing only ...

[The following originally appeared in the November 2012 edition of Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal. I thought the contents migh...

In the spirit of the day and lacking the resources and imagination to do something as elaborate as the Guillermo del Toro couch intro for t...

At the beginning of the month several interesting announcements came out of the CBOE Risk Management Conference in Portugal. One which parti...

Since the first big wave of VIX ETPs hit in 2010, I have periodically plotted all these products on a grid that used the y-axis for leverag...

Democrats and Republicans have been fighting over budgets and related matters since before any of us were born and while the debate has been...

Weekends pose an interesting set of problems for the investor/trader, particularly when there is an ongoing crisis or a reasonable risk that...

Two of my favorite bloggers, who hail from very different corners of the investment landscape, both happened to mention me in reference to t...

I am going to go out on a limb and project that the second annual CBOE Risk Management Conference (RMC) Europe , which is held at the Penha ...

With Syria and the Fed grabbing most of the headlines in the last few days, I wonder how many people have emerging markets currencies at th...

The monthly VIX futures and options expiration is a fascinating time from an options strategy perspective, as it marks the point in time i...

I can’t remember the last time that the S&P 500 index pulled back a little from a recent high and I did not get at least one request to ...

When I recently assembled Top Posts of 2013 (Through First Half of Year) , several themes jumped off the page. The top four posts of the yea...

Last month I wrote a guest column for The Striking Price on behalf of Steven Sears at Barron’s , entitled: How to Spot Risk Early . That co...

Just a quick note to inform readers that I recently provided updates and some performance data for the VIX and More Newsletter and also for...