The Landscape of Risk and Volatility

The market tends go where the least amount of participant expects it. And of course in mid-2014 crude oil started slipping just around the t...

I have the pleasure of working with many talented traders within the Chicago Board of Trade. Among them is my mentor, a former market maker ...

One cannot simultaneously be a trader and a market ideologue. Of course, we all have our biases about how the markets "should" beh...

It looks like volatility is back. The S&P500 traded within a 19-point range today, seeing highs near 1977 and lows near 1958. The day cl...

The S&P500 closed just south of 1978 today after trading within a 15-point range. We saw a strong late-day 10-point rally which nearly d...

The fat lady finally sang last Friday when $BABA was unleashed onto NYSE. Shares rose as high as 33%, pushing up the S&P500 to an all-ti...

Today was the 5th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the markets were all quiet on the Western front. Today's front ...