[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…

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…

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 …

With a little more than an hour to go before the equity markets open in Europe, investors are still attempting to digest the significance of an electoral victory for Francois Hollande in France as well as a much more fragmented political scene in Greec…

6MAY12Below is the daily, weekly, and monthly chart.  Daily closed under 1.27 fib, which usually means 1.618 fib next test ~1.01062.  Weekly has yet to touch 1.27 fib so more than likely it’ll hit ~1.01583 sometime this week.  Just a gue…

6MAY12Below is the daily, weekly, and monthly chart.  Daily closed under 1.27 fib, which usually means 1.618 fib next test ~1.01062.  Weekly has yet to touch 1.27 fib so more than likely it’ll hit ~1.01583 sometime this week.  Just a gue…