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The wild ride in the stock markets this week is nothing if not revealing to us where the relative strength is hidden!

There's always a silver lining to volatility. The vulnerable stocks get exposed, the weak hands get shaken out, and what we'...

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There is always a silver lining to slippery stock markets like the one we experienced over the last couple of weeks: Stocks that are overdue for pullbacks get them -- and sometimes hard. Meanwhile, the stocks where there is strong...

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Options premiums still remain elevated across the board and therefore I continue looking for delta-neutral premium-selling strategies to implement.

We have to take whatever the market is offering. The recent downward price action has created a...

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JC and I traveled to India together a couple years back to meet with Indian prop and options traders and to lead discussions at a few events. It was an amazing experience to be able to view risk through the eyes of traders that come from very...

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A stock recently got on our radar after share prices exploded higher following a recent earnings report.

Now that the market has given players in this stock some time to marinate in the new reality presented during this last quarterly report,...

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Well, once again we saw a little downside action this week and the noise-makers on the twitter and the teevee got all revved up. Cool. Whatever drives clicks, you maniacs.

Meanwhile, those of us who keep our heads about us while others are...

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That's right, I'm on the couch, settled in for a nice rom-com with the wife, passing the chip dip, and thinking about the stock dip I'm about to buy.

Sometimes, this is where and when my best ideas hit me. How about you?

But...

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The team is out with a bearish piece on US Treasuries this week. Have a read. In it, they lay out the case why we should be looking to position for further downside...

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Shame on me for using the word "Hope" in the headline for this post, but I cannot resist a good pun ;)

We've got a play here in an old school Aerospace & Defense company that is on the verge of making new all-time highs. And it just so...

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One thing the team and I have observed during recent market volatility is how well big banks have held up. Yes, they've pulled back like everybody else. But their relative strength remained in tact, and most charts in the sector held above significant...

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If one were to simply observe the daily charts for $SPY or $QQQ while listening to the teevee, one would easily conclude the sky is falling. And that would be an easy conclusion to come to.

But when we take a step back from the noise and look...

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Is risk back on?

The price action in the broader stock market during the second half of last week and continuing into this morning suggests this is a strong possibility. Meanwhile, the action in the dollar and metals space offers a sneaky way...

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The game plan in the markets over the past several quarters has been to buy the dip whenever the S&P 500 approached its 50-day moving average of prices.

So naturally, I spent the weekend thinking about some long trades that I wanted to put...

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As is often the case, the Labor Day Weekend has come and gone and some volatility has been reintroduced to the marketplace. And I say: "Welcome back!" with outstreched arms. Volatility = opportunity. Let's get after it.

With the rising...

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