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Bill Luby: I am firmly of the Jim Cramer school of thinking that believes, “There is always a bull market somewhere.” Of course, with the advent of inverse exchange-traded products ETPs), you can turn just about any bear market upside down and transform it into a bull market Read more…
Bill Luby: Stocks are firing on all cylinders today, with the S&P 500 index up more than 1.4% as I type this and most heat maps showing nothing but various shades of green. Even European stocks are strong today. With Europe’s exchanges closed for the weekend, Read more…
Bill Luby: Two years ago today, in Spain rallies, I posted a chart of the Spanish ETF (NYSEARCA:EWP), that showed EWP had rallied off of a bottom and looked like it was poised for a bullish breakout. Read more…
Bill Luby: Sometimes the simplest ways to analyze the VIX are the best. Read more…
Bill Luby: There are many ways in which investors can evaluate risk related to the euro zone. Credit default swaps for sovereign debt are one way to evaluate the risk of country default. Sovereign bond yields are a good proxy for a country’s access to funding Read more…
Bill Luby: With the euro zone summit looming, investors are scrambling to find all sorts of measuring sticks to evaluate the risks of a sharp move in the financial markets. Based on some of the emails I have received, many are skeptical of the VIX right now Read more…
Bill Luby: The last four days have seen a dramatic decline in all things related to the VIX. The cash/spot VIX is down 26% from last Wednesday’s close as I write this and the VIX futures have followed the VIX down to varying degrees. The graphic below shows the changes Read more…
Bill Luby: An emerging area of interest in the markets in general and in this space in particular is the subject of how to blend volatility exposure – both long and short – into a portfolio. Read more…
Bill Luby: I might as well admit this up front: weekly options are one of my favorite innovations in many years and VXX weeklys have become one of my preferred trades during the past few months. Read more…
Bill Luby: With phrases like “inflection point” and “fiscal cliff” ricocheting around in their heads over the weekend, investors had quite a few extreme scenarios in mind for equities today, but for the most part, hovering around the unchanged line was not considered a likely Read more…
Bill Luby: With a half hour to go in today’s trading session, over one million put contracts have already been traded on the S&P 500 index (INDEXSP:.INX), which is about 2 ½ times the average daily volume. This elevated put volume Read more…
Bill Luby: After more than two years of a surging bull market that has seen the major stock market indices more than double, it is not surprising that many investors are becoming more concerned about protecting existing profits than finding ways to increase existing account balances. Read more…
Bill Luby: While there was a lot going on in the sector space during the rally from October to April and the pullback earlier in the month, I have yet to see any sort of detailed explanation of what happened during these two periods. Read more…
Bill Luby: In many respects, today is a microcosm of the first 4 ½ months of 2012: industrial production and housing starts data fell short of expectations, yet stocks pushed higher regardless. Read more…
Bill Luby: Last week’s financial headlines were dominated by Spain and China. In the case of Spain, this was largely due to increased borrowing by Spanish banks from the European Central Bank. Read more…
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