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Debt-Limit Standoff: 3 Favorite Hedges For Bond Investors Seeking Shelter From Crisis
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 12:56pm | 398Read More...The latest FX & Rates Survey from Bank of America reveals that bond investors are hunting for long-dated Treasuries, put options on the stock market, and long positions in the Japanese Yen (JPY) versus high-beta currencies to shield themselves from the dangers connected with the U.S. debt limit...
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'Room For Disappointment': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Monday, September 14, 2020 - 7:10am | 2287Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Last week ended negative on relative weakness in the technology sector. Remember This: “While valuations have hinted to overstretched markets in the past, it’s tough to say where stocks should be trading right now. We just witnessed the...
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Options Outlook For The Week Of May 26: Will Friday's Momentum Carry Over?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 11:13am | 643Read More...Recap The week ended on a bullish note. All markets were in the green. Impressively the markets rose in the face of a falling TNX and rising TLT. For the past few weeks, this situation in the TNX and TLT would have caused a market sell off. Absent any negative headline from the Ukraine...
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$TLT Options Trade Idea
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 4:24pm | 363Read More...Risk Plot Profile Profit Ranges $TLT Options Trade Idea: There's an interesting trade in TLT at these levels. With TLT near highs in the 124-125 area, a bearish stance seems reasonable from a reward to risk perspective. After all, there cannot be many more buyer of bonds at these levels. The...
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SPY / TLT Spread Widens
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 1:12pm | 122Read More...This is an emerging pattern that bears some scrutiny. It would be easy to dismiss the “A” chart divergence as a product of August volatility but it appears there's something more fundamental going on when the rally of the past 3 weeks is doesn't cause the spread to constrict…in fact, it's...
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Is This a "BS" Shaped Recovery? (SPY, IEI, TLT)
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 9:22am | 458Read More...Many economists are debating if this recovery will be a "U", "V", "L", or even a "square root" shaped recovery. These of course are all describing how a chart would look if looking at GDP Growth, stock performance, etc. through time. I feel like introducing one more shape into the mix, a "BS"...
