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Economic Data: Divergence or Confirmation for Stocks?
Mon, Feb 6, 8:11 AM ET, by Bill Luby
The last time I checked in on the performance of U.S. economic data relative to ...

Suppressing Volatility and The Black Swan of Cairo
Fri, Feb 3, 12:31 PM ET, by Bill Luby
First published in the May/June 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs, The Black Swan of Cairo: ...

Slaying the Natural Gas Contango Dragon
Thu, Feb 2, 1:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Yesterday's post on Natural Gas, Contango and UNG appears to have generated a fair amount ...

Natural Gas, Contango and UNG
Wed, Feb 1, 3:31 PM ET, by Bill Luby
I have talked at length in this space about the contango and negative roll yield ...

CBOE Adds Options to Emerging Markets Volatility Index (VXEEM)
Tue, Jan 31, 7:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Earlier this month, the CBOE launched futures on the CBOE Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index ...

Join Corey Tuesday for a Webinar on Two-Timeframe Trading Tips
Tue, Jan 31, 10:51 AM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
I hope you can join us this afternoon, January 31st shortly after market close – ...

A Monthly Comparison of VXX and VXZ
Mon, Jan 30, 3:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Three years after their launch, VXX has about four times as many assets as its ...

VXX Celebrates Third Birthday
Mon, Jan 30, 1:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
It does not seem to long ago that I was the only person who though ...

Expiring Monthly January 2012 Issue Recap
Mon, Jan 30, 8:11 AM ET, by Bill Luby
I may have been away on vacation for the last two weeks, but that doesn't ...

Positive Feedback Loop Situations in SPX Price
Thu, Jan 26, 12:11 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
One of the main activities that trip up traders, especially new traders, is the concept ...

The VIX-VXX Minotaur Trade
Wed, Jan 25, 8:11 AM ET, by Bill Luby
[The following first appeared in the December 2010 edition of Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders ...

Two Timeframe Chart Structure Watch on Amazon AMZN
Tue, Jan 24, 8:51 AM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
Amazon’s (AMZN) chart structure is creating an interesting breaking point of tension between the higher ...

Charting a Potential Break in Bond Fund IEF and TLT
Fri, Jan 20, 4:51 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
Following up with my prior inter-market post this week “Something’s Gotta Give,” let’s take a ...

ZIV Undeservedly Neglected
Fri, Jan 20, 12:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Much to my amazement, next week will mark the third anniversary of the launch of ...

VIX Views
Thu, Jan 19, 11:51 AM ET, by Bill Luby
Yesterday, I learned that the people at S&P 500 Indices and the CBOE have collaborated ...

Something's Gotta Give in the Intermarket Landscape
Wed, Jan 18, 11:51 AM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
If you use Intermarket or Cross-Market Analysis in your trading or investment decisions, you’ve probably ...

SPLV vs. XLP
Wed, Jan 18, 11:21 AM ET, by Bill Luby
The more I think about it, the less I understand the need for even more ...

EconomPic Data's VIX and S&P 500 Performance Matrices
Tue, Jan 17, 12:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Last week, Jake at EconomPic Data took up the subject of the VIX as a ...

Navigating VIX and More by the Labels
Tue, Jan 17, 8:11 AM ET, by Bill Luby
Saturday's Five Years of VIX and More received enough broad-based interest that apparently attracted quite ...

Five Years of VIX and More
Sat, Jan 14, 6:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
One week ago marked five years since my first post at VIX and More. Since ...

Quick Dual Divergence Intraday Trading Lesson on January 13
Fri, Jan 13, 3:21 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
Dual intraday divergences can be very helpful in pinpointing short-term turns (reversal) in price which ...

Comparing SPLV and VQT
Fri, Jan 13, 12:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Based on some of the questions and comments that came out of Wednesday's Three New ...

Tight VIX Range Keeps Overbought Signals at Bay
Thu, Jan 12, 12:21 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Yesterday's little dose of VIX trivia (VIX Has Smallest Intraday Range Ever!) was just the ...

VIX Has Smallest Intraday Range Ever!
Wed, Jan 11, 4:51 PM ET, by Bill Luby
If ever there was a day to be short the volatility of volatility, it was ...

Three New Risk Control ETFs from Direxion
Wed, Jan 11, 12:21 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Today Direxion announced they have launched three ETFs whose intent is to match their exposure ...

SPX at 1,300: Double Top or Inverse Head and Shoulders
Tue, Jan 10, 1:41 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
With traders focused on the S&P 500 at the round-number reference level of 1,300, let’s ...

Updating SP500 Market Structure for January 2012
Fri, Jan 6, 5:41 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
The S&P 500 is compressing between a shorter-term and broader consolidation pattern, so it could ...

VXV Heralding a Return to Normalcy
Fri, Jan 6, 12:21 PM ET, by Bill Luby
With the political season heating up, it seemed like an opportune time to work "normalcy" ...

VIX and More and the 2012 Bespoke Roundtable
Thu, Jan 5, 1:31 PM ET, by Bill Luby
I was delighted to be invited back for the third year in a row to ...

Sector Rotation Insights and Lessons from 2011
Wed, Jan 4, 1:51 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
The fact that the S&P 500 “did nothing” in 2011 fails to take into account ...

Covered Calls Finish Strong in 2011
Tue, Jan 3, 2:41 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Just looking back at The Year in VIX and Volatility (2011) is enough to make ...

The Year in VIX and Volatility (2011)
Mon, Jan 2, 2:51 PM ET, by Bill Luby
One of the most-loved charts I assemble each year is my retrospective look at the ...

Quick Charting Google GOOG into New Highs
Fri, Dec 30, 8:11 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
Will history repeat or will this time be different? That’s the famous question we’re all ...

CBOE To Launch Futures on Emerging Markets Volatility (VXEEM)
Fri, Dec 30, 12:41 PM ET, by Bill Luby
One of the predictions I made for 2011 was that the trend toward what I ...

Top Posts of 2011
Thu, Dec 29, 4:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
It seems hard to believe, but next week I will celebrate the fifth year anniversary ...

Expectations, Surprises and Fear in 2011
Thu, Dec 29, 12:31 PM ET, by Bill Luby
For the last three years, the holiday season has been leaving me something new in ...

Italy's Sovereign Debt Schedule and the VIX
Wed, Dec 28, 2:21 PM ET, by Bill Luby
When I think about the risks posed by the European sovereign debt crisis in 2012, ...

SP500 at 1,260 and Triple Index Performance in 2011
Wed, Dec 28, 11:31 AM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
What a year it’s been! Unless there’s a major surprise in the next few days, ...

Q & A: The Historical Volatility of VQT
Tue, Dec 27, 3:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Questions from readers are where I get to learn which aspects of volatility cause the ...

VIX Exchange-Traded Products: The Year in Review, 2011
Fri, Dec 23, 12:51 PM ET, by Bill Luby
The year is not quite over, but I can safely predict that it when it ...

Updating that Pesky Sideways Rectangle and Breakout in Bond Funds IEF and TLT
Mon, Dec 19, 3:11 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
It’s understandable if you’ve forgotten about the bond market with all the activity centered on ...

VIX and St. Louis Fed's Financial Stress Index Moving in Concert
Fri, Dec 16, 12:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Last year I talked about the St. Louis Fed's Financial Stress Index (which I am ...

The Year in Safe Havens
Thu, Dec 15, 3:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Earlier today, in Safe Haven Options Shrinking? I noted the recent failure of some of ...

Safe Haven Options Shrinking?
Thu, Dec 15, 12:51 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Back in February, in Chart of the Week: Flight-to-Safety ETPs, I examined the year-to-date performance ...

Updating the Triangle Breakdown in Gold Dec 15
Thu, Dec 15, 12:41 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
Gold prices ejected downward from their Symmetrical Triangle bigger price pattern this week, resulting in ...

High and Low Volatility ETPs
Wed, Dec 14, 1:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Since Barclays/iShares launched the first VIX-based exchange-traded products (ETPs) three years ago next month, the ...

December Is the Cruelest Month…For the VIX
Tue, Dec 13, 1:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
It seems well-nigh impossible for a December to pass without some sort of movements in ...

Monday Morning Check on Stock Market Internals Dec 12
Mon, Dec 12, 1:41 PM ET, by Corey Rosenbloom
How have market internals given us clues about the last two short-term stock market reversals, ...

The Low Fear Selloff
Mon, Dec 12, 1:11 PM ET, by Bill Luby
Steven Place has a video post up this morning, Options Market Does Not Care About ...