SPY

Do You Want the Market to Go Up or Down?

Larry Connors — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:38:23 -0500

This past month was one of the most consistent months for the type of trading we do. In our Daily Plan we had 8 signals, all ETF scale-ins. All 8 trades were profitable trades. read more »

How to Exit an ETF Trade

Larry Connors — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:32:21 -0400

Today I was planning on following up on yesterday's lesson in ranking stock sectors, but because the market is so overbought I thought it would serve us best to look at how to exit positions, espec read more »

Monday VIX Thoughts

Adam Warner — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:32:54 -0400

As we face another day that may have an up VIX and up SPX, it's time for a weekly reminder that these are strange times in VIX-land. read more »

SPY Games

Adam Warner — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:31:46 -0400

If you're sitting here watching the screens each day you'd likely feel as if market volatility has picked up the past few weeks. I certainly do. Except it's not. read more »

Cheap Volatility, Buffet, Continued

Adam Warner — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:26:01 -0400

Let's consider a long gamma position in SPY, established now. For argument's sake, we'll say that position costs you $500 per day in decay. read more »

Volatility Check Up

Adam Warner — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:13:01 -0400

Remember way back when, we used to look at volatility all the time? How about a little peak for a moment, see where we stand. Up top, we have 1o Day HV over the past half year in SPY. read more »

Bringing in Income from ETF Options, Part 3

Larry Connors — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:30:10 -0500

In the past three lessons we looked at how to bring in income from ETFs with covered calls, credit spreads, and ratio spreads. read more »

State of the State

Adam Warner — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:56:01 -0500

OK, going to officially go on record as saying volatility is too high. Here's why I say that. Yes, financials look like a disaster again. But unlike last Fall, nothing else really does. read more »

Trading the New VIX ETNs

Larry Connors — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:26:49 -0500

I just took my first two VIX ETN trades (the symbol is VXX). I took the trades primarily to get a feel of how they trade. read more »

Continued Strength

shannon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:43:00 -0500

The break past resistance has shown impressive upside follow through. The SPY and IWM are also past the key levels of resistance at 86 and 46 respectively. read more »