[The following first appeared in the May 2011 edition of Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal. I thought I would share it because of the strong positive feedback I received as well as the large number of questions I have recently fielded about ...
At various times over the past three years, I have been posting a table that I call the VIX and More 2009-12 SPX Peak to Trough Pullback Summary, the most recent version of which can be found in a March post, Putting the Current 2.6% SPX Pullback in Re…
Understanding all the moving parts in the European sovereign debt crisis can be a Herculean task, even for the most determined analyst. Heck, even hazarding a guess at what tomorrow’s crisis du jour will be is more than enough for most investors to g…
USA Consumer Sentiment: Thomson Reuters / University of Michigan Americans are neither very optimistic nor very negative these days, but the Index of Consumer Sentiment inched up to a 14-month peak in April. Consumer sentiment has rebounded from the …
13MAY12Click here to view last week’s posts on ES_F. On the daily S&P Futures ES_F hit the 1.27 retrace ~ 1338.50 (actual low was 1339.25) and then started going sideways. Right now the daily kumo is providing resistance, however in 2-3…
13MAY12So Apple AAPL seems to still be in a range as I mentioned last week. On the 4hr the last candle crossed the Tenkan (blue line) and the Chikou (red trailing) is above that period’s price action–bullish, however, the last candle closed unde…
12MAY12Last week I mentioned that AUDUSD could go under 1. On my twitter stream @BNGESG was following the price action more regularly than my blog and tweeted that support on the weekly was 1.00718 on the weekly and Frida…
The name of this blog suggests that I am a physicist trying to introduce some principal rules of mechanics into economics. Economics is a hobby rather than every day activity. At some point, it’s worth to present my…
This picture presents the essence of my professional work
In case anyone missed it, I wanted to highlight a report yesterday from Reuters which quoted Edward Tilly, President of CBOE Holdings, as saying that not only is the VIX product line ripe for expansion, but: “We have benchmarks on a number …
