Trading the Odds on Monday – November 2, 2009
tradingtheodds.com 26 days ago — Friday’s session in every way complied to (heavily lopsided negative) historical probabilities and odds (even to the magnitude of change on the intraday low and on the close) where either the CBOE Volatility Index ( VIX ) had closed lower at least -11% on the previous session, or the ...

Trading the Odds on Friday – October 30, 2009
tradingtheodds.com 28 days ago — It might appear that I’m addicted to blogging about the financial markets (my original intention was to take a couple of days off), but some of those setups triggered at today’s close are way too interesting. Despite the fact that all major market indices posted a reversal ...

Trading the Odds
tradingtheodds.wordpress.com 3/25/2009 — since 01/02/1990 (long term only, for other time frames the results may significantly deviate), on average ( NOT to be mistaken for ‘always’) and at-any-time (and applicable to all days of the week as well) the VIX closes below its opening quotation ...

The VIX Spike Conundrum
vixandmore.blogspot.com 23 days ago — I have been absolutely astonished by the number of comments I have seen in the past few days to the effect that right now is an excellent time to make initiate new long positions on VIX options. I am still not sure what is behind most of this thinking, but it seems as if quite a few investors ...

VIX To The Future
dailyoptionsreport.com 16 days ago — If there's one thing we've learned since the inception of VIX futures, it's that they lag moves in the VIX. Which of course makes sense. The shorter a volatility measure, the more subject it is to noise. Conversely, the longer the measure, the more ...

VIX Macro Cycles and a New Floor in the VIX
vixandmore.blogspot.com 9/28/2009 — The last time I updated my as VIX macro cycle chart, a little more than five months ago, the VIX had just dipped below 40.00 and I was looking at a bottom as low as 25.00 or so. For awhile, the area around 24.00 offered significant support, but with Wednesday’s low of 22.19, it is time to ...

Will The Vix Crack 20 Soon?
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 10/20/2009 — The VIX volatility index slipped below 21 earlier today and currently stands at 21.15. This is the closest the VIX has gotten to 20 throughout the entire bull market, and marks a 75% decline from the closing high of 80.86 seen during the financial ...

How to Trade the VIX
vixandmore.blogspot.com 8/17/2009 — Based upon the search terms that are landing visitors on the blog this morning, it seems as if many readers are interested in how to trade the VIX. This question really boils down to two separate issues: strategies and trading vehicles. Since I have talked about strategies repeatedly in this ...

VIX Fixation
condoroptions.com 8/12/2009 — It seems these days that the entire world is gasping at, of all things, minor twitches in out-month VIX futures. Earlier this week, Bloomberg’s strength ebbed and I caught them as, overcome, they whisper’d, “ VIX Signals S&P ...

While We Were Churning......
adamsoptions.blogspot.com 7/15/2009 — Well, despite a rather slow session yesterday, we have some very interesting developments in volatility land. This, from Jason Goepfert (who I hope doesn't mind that copied over his chart, please click thru). Options expert, and unofficial (though ...

Priceline Added To S&P 500; Stock Jumps — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 28 days ago
Priceline (PCLN) shares jumped in late trading after Standard & Poor’s said it is adding the online travel service to the S&P 500 stock index, replacing Schering-Plough , which is being acquired by Merck . After hours, PCLN is ...