Volatility: A Misleading Measure Of Risk
Authored by 720Global's Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums” – Alan Greenspan
Authored by 720Global's Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums” – Alan Greenspan
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
Just like the infamous 7 Minute Abs scene from Something about Mary, many had wondered for years why there is no ETF that allows retail investors to lose money even faster than with the existing inventory of various triple-leveraged passive investing offering.
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
While one can hardly accuse the market of being particularly nervous at this moment, with the VIX dropping to single digits earlier today for the first time in a decade, and with strategists and pundits explaining to anyone who will listen how this is the "most hated rally ever" despite the S&P trading at all time highs at valuations that are in the 99 historical percentile, an interesting admission was made today by Bank of America which reported that in April, its Sell Side Indicator, a proprietary measure of Wall Street’s bullishness on stocks, rose by 0.6ppt to 53.5, its hig
Manipulation's Persistence and Comex' Demise
via Soren K Group and MarketSlant