While I still have at least one and a half feet placed firmly in the bull camp, I am increasingly concerned with a number of signs from some key technical indicators. Near the top of my list of concerns is market breadth , as measured by the McClellan...
Topics: breadth, chart of the week, KBE, McClellan Summation Index, sectors, SMH, XHB, XRT

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I have been traveling and have had limited connectivity for the past few days, but I note that the Peak Oil post has generated a fair amount of interest and that others are running with the story, notably: Chris Martenson in "The Implications and...

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At the risk of beating to death last week’s theme of availability bias and disaster imprinting as part of the explanation for some of the “ realized volatility gap, persistent VIX futures contango and off-center VIX:VXV ratio ,” I thought it might..
Topics: availability bias, behavioral finance, contango, disaster imprinting, mean reversion, realized volatility, VIX:VXV

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I am neither an alarmist nor a conspiracy theorist, but I have been extremely concerned about Peak Oil long before I took on the VIX a pet project. Now that I occasionally find myself as an unofficial source of all things VIX and volatility, it seems I...

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On October 30 th , in Strangle Pong , I talked about the possibility of legging into an S&P 500 index strangle , starting with the sale of a November SPX 1040 put and looking to sell a November SPX 1100 call when the index rallied back over 1080. ...
Topics: condor, strangle, time decay

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