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How forced liquidation of Short Volatility ETNs (XIV) could cascade into a Stock Market Crash
If you’re anything like me, you might have been surprised at the 4% drop in the S&P 500 (SPY) and the DJIA today when you got home from work. However, that is nothing compared to the massive volatility spike that occurred in the CBOE VIX index. The VIX index is a formula based index that […]
Stock Market Bubble 2018: Low volatility, High momentum
Daily new all-time highs each and every consecutive day is not a normal phenomenon. The current stock market bubble is made up of many individual cases of bubble sightings. One sign in particular that I want to highlight is the recent occurrence of regular and repeated all-time new highs for many of the largest market cap […]
Common Sense Tax Reform that Everyone can Support
I read an article this weekend that made me angry. It’s titled “TurboTax, H&R Block spend big bucks lobbying for us to keep doing our own taxes.” The basic premise of the article is that Congress has been working to develop a method to reduce the time and frustration of filing tax returns. This tax reform […]
Stock Market Crash is coming – Are you prepared?
The stock market reached an all-time high this week, with the S&P 500 index surpassing 2400 for the first time. There isn’t anything in particular about an all-time high that signals an impending stock market crash. Markets achieve new highs all the time. Instead, the relationship between the value and the price of the stock […]
