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Monthly Expiration To Traders: “Remember Me?”
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Interactive Brokers
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Friday, April 19, 2024 2:00 PM EDT
There were over 87,000 contracts on SPX 5000 strike puts that expired today. With SPX closing around 5010 yesterday, they already posed some risk to the overall market.
In this article: SPX
Sub-merging Markets
Article By:
Tim Knight
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Sunday, April 14, 2024 12:10 AM EDT
My emerging markets puts are doing dandy, and I think there’s tons left to go.
The High-Yield Stock For Energy Investing
Article By:
Tim Plaehn
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:15 PM EDT
Exxon Mobil is a Dividend Aristocrat with 25 years of dividend growth, but it currently yields only 3.2%. So, let me show you a better way of getting yield from Exxon.
Looking At Utilities
Article By:
Tim Knight
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Sunday, April 7, 2024 6:16 PM EDT
One of my positions is long September XLU puts. Utilities have been more robust than I’d like to see, but I will say that the failure of the horizontal breakout is encouraging.
In this article: XLU
Gamma Risk: Understanding Profit Sensitivity
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Ernie Varitimos
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Saturday, April 6, 2024 8:40 PM EDT
This brief video simplifies the complex world of options trading by explaining how staying at the center of your profit curve minimizes gamma risk.
In this video: SPX
A Look At FXI
Article By:
Tim Knight
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Saturday, April 6, 2024 4:05 PM EDT
One of my bearish positions is on China, by way of in-the-money Sept. 20, 2024 FXI puts.
In this article: FXI
What Options Markets Expect For Today’s FOMC Meeting
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Interactive Brokers
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 2:12 PM EDT
Expectations for a rate cut are essentially nil, even if the probability of a June cut has crept back up to about 70%.
In this article: SPX
“FOMO Insurance” Dominates Key Equity Options
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Interactive Brokers
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:16 PM EDT
It may seem like a quaint notion to a new generation of YOLO-inspired speculators, but options markets arose as a way to transfer and hedge risk.
