Tag Archives: Volatility
Trading Volatility and Market Structure
Full-time trader Brian Hoffman started out six years ago by trading one E-mini contract at a time in order to learn what works. By starting small and making sure he could make money trading just a single contract at a time, he was able to develop a specific strategy and method for watching the markets that led him to bigger size and full-time trading.
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Market Preview: Fed Up With Volatility
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — 2011 was such a volatile year for that it makes sense that investors are finally fed up with pretending their opinions matter when it comes to where stocks are heading next.
The American Association of Individual Investors just published its weekly survey of investor sentiment, and the ranks of those who don’t have a feeling one way or another about what direction the S&P 500 is heading in over the next six months saw a major jump, reaching levels unseen in more than six and a half years.
The neutral camp swelled by nearly 12 percentage points to 38% for the week ended Dec. 21, well above the long-term average of 31% and the highest reading since 41.8% in mid-April 2005. The AAII has roughly 150,000 members that it polls each week but it doesn’t say how many of those participate in the survey.
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Smooth Portfolio Volatility With Small Cap Gold Stocks
When looking at the S&P 500 charts, I get that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I would get when the local fair came to town and I got aboard the Tilt-A-Whirl after an enormous feed on cotton candy. As investors watch their stock portfolios jump 10% one week followed by a 15% drop over the next two weeks, how can they smooth out the bumps for a calmer ride?
Diversification Holds the Key
Diversification is a broad concept that simply refers to having a variety of investments that are somewhat dissimilar. Financial advisors keep telling their clients to balance bonds, equity and cash. What about diversification within the stock market?
Finding low-correlation, publicly traded investment products is increasingly challenging as globalization ties international markets closer together. A deep recession in one country will see its citizens selling their equities – and many of these holdings are
Lower Volatility With Alernative Investments
