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- Chart of the Week: Emerging Markets Continue to Add Gains
- Bill Luby submits: One of my best trades for 2009 has been a long position in [[EEM]], the emerging markets ETF. The chart of the week below click to enlarge shows that emerging markets have been consistently outperforming the S&P 500 index since the beginning or January (see ratio...
- External links 2009-06-01
- ETFs, Leverage and Strangles
- Bill Luby submits: I was surprised by the volume of the feedback I received from last week’s Using Options to Control Risk in Leveraged ETFs. Clearly there is a great deal of interest in options and leveraged ETFs. Among the emails I received were several questions...
- External links 2009-06-03
- Observations on the VXX:VXZ Ratio
- Bill Luby submits: Since its launch on January 30th, the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN VXX has generated an enthusiastic following, with an average volume of 400,000 shares traded each day. The same claim cannot be made of VXX’s more problematic sibling, the iPath S&P 500 VIX...
- External links 2009-06-18
- Using Options to Control the Risks of Leveraged ETFs
- Bill Luby submits: Several readers noted that options on leveraged ETFs seemed like a recipe for disaster, as if no good could possibly come from piling leverage on top of leverage. While I certainly understand the sentiment, this type of thinking is typical of investors who have little or...
- External links 2009-05-27
- VIX ETFs and Options: Still Not Well Understood by Investors
- Bill Luby submits: Partly based on some thinking I laid out last week in Some VIX Milestones…and a Prediction, I was fortunate to be long the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN, VXX going into Monday’s session. VXX notched a nice one day gain of...
- External links 2009-04-21
- VXX: Record Volume on Speculation of a VIX Bottom
- Bill Luby submits: While all eyes were watching the VIX take a swan dive yesterday morning, I failed to hear any chatter about the iPath VIX ETN, VXX. Though admittedly not as sexy or as volatile as its index counterpart, VXX still managed to fall over 40% from its...
- External links 2009-05-20
- ProShares New Triple ETFs: Next Big Thing?
- Bill Luby submits: Yesterday morning ProShares launched two new triple ETFs. Now before you exclaim, “Enough already!” consider that the new ETFs are designed to track the daily moves of the S&P 500 index. As such, these are the first 3x and -3x ETFs that track the SPX directly....
- External links 2009-06-25
- VXX Surpasses Two Million Share Mark
- Bill Luby submits: As the VIX sinks to a new 52 week low, the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN VXX appears to be catching on with investors who are looking to trade volatility directly without going the options route. Trading volume in VXX topped...
- External links 2009-09-23
- VIX ETN: Ineffective as Both Short-Term, Long-Term Play
- Bill Luby submits: During the last month, the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN VXX has been turning over an average of 1.3 million shares per day. I am certain that a fair portion of the purchases of VXX have come from investors who have sought to protect...
- External links 2009-10-02
- Opportunity Knocking in the Form of a VIX Spike
- Bill Luby submits: Sometimes I like to skate around some of the salient points of volatility rather than try to hit readers over the head with them. But with the VIX now 16% over its 10-day simple moving average, I hope I am not the only one going short...
- External links 2009-10-28
- CWB Illustrates How Convertible Bond ETFs Can Be a Powerful Portfolio Addition
- Bill Luby submits: I have never been a particularly big fan of convertible bonds, but from time to time, these investments can make a good deal of sense. Launched four months ago (and still qualifying as “new” according to my warped ETF chronograph), the SPDR Barclays...
- External links 2009-08-18
- FAS is Now the Ghost of XLF
- Bill Luby submits: For someone who gets a kick out of volatility, the arrival of triple ETFs has been a little bit like manna from heaven. Of course the launch of the Direxion triple ETFs back in early November just happened to coincide with the highest VIX readings in...
- External links 2009-06-30
- New Triple ETFs Already Trading Options
- Bill Luby submits: Though they are less than two weeks old, the two new triple ETFs based on the S&P 500 index already have options available to trade. The bullish 3x ETF, Ultra ProShares UPRO has July options that expire one week from Friday with strikes from 60 to...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Are SPXU and UPRO Being Traded?
- Bill Luby submits: Yesterday, I did my best to be provocative in Is the VIX Being Artificially Depressed by Increased Use of SPXU? One of the points I made is that ProShares' UltraPro Short S&P 500 ETF SPXU could be a substitute for SPX puts (and perhaps artificially depress...
- External links 2009-07-29
- The TAO of Chinese Real Estate
- Bill Luby submits: Two places where investors have done extremely well since March are China and real estate. Some investors have undoubtedly been lucky enough to find themselves at the intersection of these two bullish themes by being invested in Chinese real estate. Historically, gaining significant...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Is China About to Break Out?
- Bill Luby submits: It was only ten days ago that I thought I would be provocative with an early call on China in Time to Be Long China? Since that time, what looked like a possible cessation in downside momentum has turned decidedly more bullish, with the FXI rising...
- External links 2008-12-04
- Are FAS Options Cheap With Implied Volatility of 232?
- Bill Luby submits: Generally the thought of buying some options on the cheap is not consistent with an implied volatility IV of 232. Today, I have a counterexample to consider. by Bill Luby
- External links 2008-12-13
- Chart of the Week: Gold
- Bill Luby submits: In a week in which most securities drifted lower on uninspired volume, gold was a notable exception, jumping 4.1% as tensions between India and Pakistan increasingly point toward the possibility of a military confrontation while violence in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas is escalating....
- External links 2008-12-28
- Gold's Recent Volatility
- Bill Luby submits: I have been receiving quite a few questions about gold and gold volatility lately, so with gold receiving a lot of attention in the press, I thought this would be a good time to check in on the commodity and on the CBOE’s gold volatility index...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Keep an Eye on Emerging Markets Bonds
- Bill Luby submits: I know a number of equities-only investors who have started following the bond markets for the first time ever over the course of the past year after becoming tired of being blind-sided by inter-market relationships. Of the many credit market data points, LIBOR, the TED spread,...
- External links 2008-11-02
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