How To Use The Yield Curve As An Equities Risk On/Off Indicator
The drop in equity markets and subsequent V-shaped rebound has left many traders wondering: "Is it safe to increase long equity exposure?"
With pundits on...
How To Trade A Poor Man’s Covered Call
Most traders worth their salt have used, or at least heard of covered calls.
Covered calls are really easy to implement and are a proven...
Using Cash Secured Puts To Pick Up Stocks For Less
Getting paid while you wait, I like the sound of that.
A cash secured put is a conservative options strategy that can be used to...
How To Improve Market Returns Using Alternative Data
Many people post fancy charts and data points but often times I wonder if they have actual use.
Recently, there is also a great infatuation...
How Stock Corrections And Bear Markets Decimate Investor Gains
“Nobody ever lost money taking a profit” ~ Bernard Baruch
When is a 10 percent stock market correction not a 10 percent correction? How about...
4 Prevalent Investor Biases And How To Manage Them
If you had to analyze every decision you make on a given day, you probably wouldn’t get much done. You might not even make...
Investors: The Dangers Of Performance Chasing
The most prevalent disclaimer in the investments world goes something like this – “past performance may not be repeated”. If you don’t believe us,...
Behavioral Bias: How Investors Can Profit From It
All investors make errors that can often be traced back to a behavioral bias or emotional mistake.
If under certain circumstances these mistakes are systematic,...
Trading Strategies: Intra-day VXX Spikes
With the equity markets in a steady melt up, multi-day implied volatility spikes have all but disappeared. Any dip in equities now lasts mere...
Generating Alpha: The Holy Grail Of Investing
The holy grail of investing is generating alpha, adding performance relative to an appropriate benchmark.
Portfolio managers around the world throw unimaginable resources at this...
