HiPOS Trade Update: Short Term Volatility Spike
New HiPOS Conservative Trade - Yesterday ZEGA’s traders capitalized on the resulting short-term rise in volatility due to Tuesday’s downturn.
New HiPOS Conservative Trade - Yesterday ZEGA’s traders capitalized on the resulting short-term rise in volatility due to Tuesday’s downturn.
Derek and Jay ask whether forward PE ratios are predictive of future market direction? Then they review how the S&P 500 Index has performed during each presidential election going back to 1996.
Derek and Jay discuss the Fed and Powell press conference market reaction. Plus, they look at META and Apple option’s implied volatilities did or didn’t predict the post earnings moves. 1994-95 experience in Fed rates and bond yields compared to today.
HiPOS Conservative Trade Update - Today the Fed did nothing but said something the market didn’t like.
Derek and Jay are it at once again where they analyze Tesla’s implied volatility right before earnings vs what happened. Did the option’s market misprice premiums?
As the markets closed at another all-time high, the call side of our short iron condor has crept up closer to the short 5100 call strike but remains just above 5% out-of-the-money. With today’s session in the books that leaves another 14 trading days to go before the February 9th expiration date.