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This week’s move in the VIX is certainly historic.  As Bill Luby wrote at his VIX and More blog yesterday, it was the 11th largest one day VIX spike in the history of the VIX (almost 25 years of data).  The past week of price action is even more notable...

The job of a good market strategist is to use both the right and left brain to analyze the markets. The left brain is usually thought of as the analytical and reasoning side - and investors can always use the reason, rigor and discipline of investment...

A misunderstood VIX trade that comes with built-in safety cushion by Simon Maierhofer The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is one of the most popular and most over-analyzed index/indicators. There are many ways to (over) use the VIX, but the best way to...

Investors reacted like the sky was falling on Friday. Commentators mostly blamed the -400 point decline in the Dow on heightened probabilities for a September rate hike by Janet Yellen and her fellow Federal Reserve colleagues. Geopolitical concerns...

That didn’t take long! Just seven days ago, I laid out specific trading instructions to profit from an inevitable uptick in volatility in October. Remember, it had nothing to do with the ongoing squabble in Washington, D.C. Instead...