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  • ETFDesk Daily 12/01/2009 Top News and Investment Ideas by ETFdesk.com
     Sign up for Daily email and feed at etfdesk.comToday's market-moving headlines, macro trade ideas and more...5 REASONS TO EXPECT A NEAR-TERM SELL-OFFDave Rosenberg 11/30/2009 KEEP AN EYE ON THE CREDIT MARKETS AGAINTail Risk in Sovereign CDSHow overbuilt is China?Why Black Friday Data... More »
    December 1, 2009 • IWM, QQQQ, DIA
  • ETF Market Trends (11-27-2009): Dubai's Potential Default Creates Selling Pressure in Markets by J Clinton Hill
    ETF Market Direction Summary (11-27-2009) It was supposed to a normally quiet day-after-Thanksgiving trading session, but equities succumbed to selling pressure in the face of potential defaults by Dubai World. The impacts of this macro-news event were far reaching as it negatively... More »
    November 30, 2009 • LVS, ATVI, SPY
  • Do Black Swans Negate Option Premiums? by Surly Trader
    Volatility arbitrage generally refers to trading strategies that capture the spread between implied  volatility (forecasted by option prices) and realized volatility (what volatility actually ends up being).  The spread between these two volatilities can be captured by selling options... More »
    November 24, 2009 • SPY, VXX, VXZ
  • VIX Failure at 23 Leading to a Test of the Key 20 Level by Moby Waller
    Last week, I mentioned to our premium subscribers that the VIX was showing unusual behavior.  It was unable to sustain a move above the important 23 level on Thursday and Friday, despite the market selling off.This lack of any kind of fear spike in the VIX was interesting ... from one... More »
    November 23, 2009 • SPY, VXX, VXZ
  • Week Ahead Market Outlook by Price Headley
    Stocks ended last week in the red – the first losing week in the last three, but the fifth loser in the last nine. Though not due for a complete implosion, stock remain overbought and ripe for a decent correction. S&P 500 & VIX Chart Had it not been for Friday’s 0.32% dip,... More »
    November 23, 2009 • SPY, QQQQ, DIA
  • How to (Safely) Play the Short Side of this Market by Kevin Mulhern
         You'd be hard pressed to find an investor in this market who doesn't have some concern over the valuations we're seeing in domestic equities.  We've been in and out of short positions for the past four months, continually forced to cover on the next low-volume, yet... More »
    November 23, 2009 • SPY, VXZ
  • S&P 500 geodesic model update - Nov 20, 2009 by squark62
    S&P 500 indication:  possible momentum change in progress to the down-side(visit my intro to trading long/short ETFs in pairs using geodesic concepts)the signal (blue line) & it's 12 DMA (yellow line) are now moving in opposite directions.  the previous 2 short-term tops... More »
    November 20, 2009 • SH, SPY, SDS
  • S&P 500 geodesic model update - Nov 17, 2009 by squark62
    indication:  swinging wildly, oh, ah, and the beat still goes on....(visit my intro to trading long/short ETFs in pairs using geodesic concepts)from a technical stand point, this chart says it all as far as the S&P 500 is concerned.  frequency of oscillation seems steady and... More »
    November 17, 2009 • SH, SPY, SDS
  • Have Bears Given Up? by Gary Tanashian
    They are tired, yes. Pissed off too.The government has this rigged and set on autopilot. Goldman Sachs runs everything out of the penthouse office. Money printing as far out as the eye can see. We don't have free markets and this is the run up to the new, fascist world order with Rockefeller and... More »
    November 17, 2009 • GLD, SLV, VXZ
  • VIX Retreat - Return to a New Normal by Surly Trader
    Long gone are the days of 10-13% volatility that we experienced during the leveraging mania of 2005 & 2006. I believe the credit crisis that started in earnest during 2007 has left its mark.  Volatility will remain elevated as continuing uncertainty and fear will impact market... More »
    November 10, 2009 • SPY, VXX, VXZ

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