While We Were Churning……
Well, despite a rather slow session yesterday, we have some very interesting developments in volatility land.This, from Jason Goepfert (who I hope doesn't mind that copied over his chart, please click thru).Options expert, and unofficial (though enthus...
Can Smoking (Hot) Damage Your Health?
Probably depends on what Melissa is smoking here.Anyway, optionMONSTER picking up some put buyers in the health insurance space.UnitedHealth, Aetna, and Humana drew heavy put action today as traders apparently positioned for a quick drop it in the shar...
Le Oil Manipulation Case Sans Merit?
So been to Paris once in my life, about 15 years ago. As Steve Martin once said, those French have a different word for everything. Honestly, the most confusing thing was gas prices. Francs per liter? Give me something I can use.Anyway, over the past y...
Tour De Lower Historical Volatility
Before we get started, I'd like to extend Happy Bastille Day wishes to all French readers here. Going to celebrate all day with our favorite French personality, Melissa Theriau, who judging by a quick Google Search and a stale Wiki page has apparently ...
NetFlicked
Looks like someone's expecting Green Shoots in the DVD rental space. This on NFLX, via optionMONSTER (free sub. required).Stock and options trading turned bullish on Netflix today as investors positioned for the movie-rental company to rally this week....
SPY Games
If you're sitting here watching the screens each day you'd likely feel as if market volatility has picked up the past few weeks. I certainly do.Except it's not.The chart above shows 10 day HV for SPY over the past half year, and it has actually started...
Other VIX Gappage
Another VIX "gap" I have seen lately notes the big diff. between moving averages. Like the 200 day and 50 day shown here for example.Now first of all, isn't the "why" of this one incredibly obvious? The 200 day still includes data from last Fall's Mad ...
Seemed Like a Great Idea Actually
The artist formerly known as Ochocinco (wait, I'm being told he's currently known as Ochocinco) had a great idea to take the "inside the huddle" experience to a new level: In game twitter updates.But doesn't sound like it's happening so fast. This, via...
Housing Party?
Looks like somebody been reading Cramer's Housing Bottom Call (Version 7.0).Some of the homebuilders are seeing bullish flow ahead of housing starts data due out next week–on options expiration Friday, to make things interesting. Hovnanian (HOV) is d...
Forget Those VIX Gaps
Have seen some recent articles and/or tweets noting gaps in the VIX (sounds like a straw man since I don't have one to link to, but really, have seen it go by often).Let me nip it in the bud first, it's a silly concept. There's a reason stocks/futures/...
Some Words From the Masters
Some great points on volatility that everyone needs to internalize, via Bernie Schaeffer's July newsletter. Keep in mind it went out to subs on June 25th, before the recent modest upswing in volatility.You can't refer to the cheapness or the richness o...
Lenny Speaks
Haven't had a chance to view this myself yet, but apparently it's Jane Wells sitdown at Chez Lenny. HT anonymous commenter in the post below.Also, the letter is officially legit as Todd sent me this link to a Philly.com article that got Lenny's confirm...
