July 16, 2022 | Daily JAM |
With the Federal Reserve in its quiet period ahead of the July decision on raising interest rates, I expect speculation will run wild and volatility will have a field day. (Or maybe that should be a field week.)
August 23, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, Volatility |
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump upstaged Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell this morning. Powell's Jackson Hole speech this morning was supposed to be the day's big market event. (More on this speech in a later post.) But this morning China announced that it would...
December 29, 2018 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Saturday  this week) Trick or Trend looks at what might (or might not) be emerging investible trends. Exclusively on JAM. This post won't run anywhere else. Ever. When...
April 9, 2018 | Daily JAM, Short Term, Volatility |
Last week gave us a decent read on how volatile this U.S. stock market is. And how fear and uncertainty rule this market. Let me use the Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) May 18, 2018 puts with a strike price of $18 that I added to my Volatility Portfolio on April 3 as an example.
January 31, 2017 | Daily JAM, Volatility |
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January 19, 2017 | Daily JAM, VIX, Volatility |
It’s not just that the VIX, the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index that measures how much investors and traders are willing to pay to hedge risk in the Standard & Poor’a 500 stock index, is sitting near 10-year lows. It’s that its just sitting.
June 13, 2016 | Daily JAM, Volatility |
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July 23, 2014 | Daily JAM |
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