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On Friday over the lunch hour I adjusted the stop on the market direction portfolio, tightening it to within 20 cents of the high. I was stopped out in the early afternoon at $71.27 but I did not re-enter. My outlook is that the market direction up is too overbought...
With the market direction back at the market top, it is worthwhile to take a quick look at the VIX Index. The VIX Index strategy relies on the volatility pulling back before investors jump in to buy VIX Index Call Options for the next time the VIX Index will push...
Recently an investor wrote me regarding his purchase of VIX Index calls that expire Feb 19 and which he has neither rolled or sold to date. Let's look at the issue and see what we can come up with. Teddi, I am currently holding Vix Feb 19 $13C. At issue is when these...
I received a lot of emails over the past couple of days from investors wondering about rolling their VIX Index call options. Many investors did not roll their December call options earlier and are wondering what I think about rolling right now. Let's take a look at...
Every strategy is not for every investor. Some investors are exceptional at picking the right stock at the right time for Put Selling. Others seem to be geniuses at doing spreads. Still others are amazing at setting up strangles or straddles. I have a lot of...
Understanding the VIX Index call strategy also means understanding how the call options themselves are priced. Whenever the VIX index declines I receive a lot of emails from investors complaining about the large premiums still being commanded by the call options,...
The thing about the VIX Index Call strategy is that it needs patience. I get emails constantly from investors who once they have sold their call options when the VIX Index rises, then email and tell me they want to get back in and when do I think it would be best. It...
The recent decline in volatility finds a lot of investors anxious to get in and buy VIX Index calls. They perceive the present market rise as a great opportunity to profit when volatility jumps higher when the market pulls back shortly. I have received a lot of emails...
I have previously outlined the VIX Index Stock Market Trading strategy. This is a very simple and easy to implement strategy. A question from an investor I thought might be of interest to those FullyInformed Members who have been enjoying great profits from this...
I saw the stock market futures about a half hour before the market opened and I felt it was probably overdone. We have all seen this before with Europe. Crisis after crisis and they always manage to avert "biting the bullet" as it were. I therefore decided that I...