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MARKET UPDATE: EARNINGS & VOLATILITY
Earnings and extreme volatility are the hot topics this week. There’s been a very strong start to the earnings season despite low expectations. This week we will see the largest number of companies...
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MARKET UPDATE: MAY DAY
Today is a holiday in most places outside of the U.S. so Jack uses this opportunity to reflect on not only what’s happening in the markets here but also abroad.
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MARKET UPDATE: FIXED INCOME VOLATILITY
Jack talks about the volatility we have been seeing in the fixed income market and how it has the entire world holding its collective breath.
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MARKET UPDATE: SUBDUED SESSION
After a week of a lot of volatility, today we saw a bit of a subdued session. Jack talks about Janet Yellen’s speech and what the possible hints are for the Fed’s next move.
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Market Update: Why so much volatility?
While the late summer months are historically quiet, this past week saw high levels of volatility. Jack discusses how the repatriation of sovereign wealth funds in China and oil producing countries...
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Market Update: Anticipating the Week Ahead
Last week saw more price action than normal for the late summer months, and Jack expects further waves of volatility to carry over into this week as well. It’s also a big week for data with the...
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Market Update: A Volatile September?
Where does all the equity index volatility leave market participants going into the rest of the month? Jack takes a look, and discusses the impact of the release of the Fed’s beige book.
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MARKET UPDATE: MARKET VOLATILITY
Jack touches on crude oil, which is really driving the market right now & increasing volatility and he follows with the analysts meetings this week, right off this past earnings season, which will...
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MARKET UPDATE: EXTREME VOLATILITY
Today marks the start of the two-day Fed meeting everyone has been waiting for. There is a lot of excitement and anticipation over what’s to come out of these sessions. Jacks says between that and...
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MARKET UPDATE: WORD OF THE DAY – VOLATILITY
The Dow opened up 200 points higher today and shortly after the whole lead evaporated. You could say volatility has been the word for the last few weeks. Jack says there is strong correlation...
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MARKET UPDATE: VOLATILITY IS THE NAME OF THE GAME
Jack says global markets are still being held hostage by the price of crude. There is a lot of distrust among the oil producing nations and yesterday the Saudi Oil minister told the world there will...
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What Volatility Spikes Mean for Traders Now
There are two methods of measuring equity volatility that I most often use. The CME equity volatility tools on QuikStrike which measures implied volatility in varying duration CME options contracts,...
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