Volatility at risk
VIX spike is getting excessive Regardless whether this is the start of a bear market (and the changing moving average trends on the VIX indicate it could well be), the…
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January 24, 2022
Buy buy volatility?
VIX is filling a gap On Monday I sold the volatility spike. Hedge though it was I did not want to ride the spike in angst back down again: Bye…
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July 21, 2021
Market Volatility
I went from sad (taking my profits too soon) to glad that I took profits in volatility vehicle VIXY as the VIX reversed and went negative today. It remains to…
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September 4, 2020
Volatility
So tell me, how do you write about volatility to come, mentally prepare for it and then get beaten by it? Well, if you are me you live up to…
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March 27, 2018
Even Steven Always Evens Out!
As the VIX flies up, down and all around (bullish or bearish the one thing we have been planning on is increased and extreme volatility) I am happy enough to…
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March 26, 2018
Volatility Spike: Real or Memorex (again)?
So, is this just another spike that will refresh the bull or is it the start of the real thing? Here's the weekly view. It does not look like the…
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November 15, 2017
VIX Gap Filled
Well, it's something for the bulls anyway. The gap down on whatever was pleasuring the market in mid-late April has now been closed and is out of the way. I…
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May 17, 2017
VIX Too Pumpy? Think Again…
We noted in NFTRH 399 that the VIX had made a big move on Friday but that it had rammed right up to the resistance at which bulls had owned…
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June 13, 2016
‘V’ Bounce, Part 3?
In September we managed an over bought, over loved and over obsessed upon stock market into October's decline. That decline was simply a sentiment thing. Sentiment needed to be re-set…
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January 8, 2015