Articles for: CBOE

Is the US market actually poised for an upside breakout?

As expected, the gap in the S&P 500 chart is filled; so where does the U.S market go from here? Rob reviews technicals on SPX, the VIX and the U.S Dollar.

Hurricane Sandy swept through the New York area this week with little regard for anything or anyone in its path.

Welcome to the third part of my series of articles on the Credit spread. So far in this series of articles it may seem all like doom and gloom, as far as dispelling some of the myths of Credit spreads, but in this week’s article I am going to show the reasons I like them.

For the last 4 weeks, media pundits and market commentators have (rather tiredly in my opinion) prattled on about shares “getting ahead of the fundamentals” and how the market should “pull back”.

A diversified approach is important in any investment strategy. There are varying levels of diversity from Macro to Micro levels.

I’d like to use the opportunity to share some of the insights I gained in my Iron Condor trading on the Russell 2000 Index (RUT).

Moving averages (MAs) are often the first technical indicator learnt when studying technical analysis, and why not they are straight forward and help gauge where a market is in relation to its history.

What an amazing year we had in the markets in 2008.