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I have recommenced blogging and for various reasons have started a new blog called Options - The Naked Truth Visit me there at optionsth...

As October trading is over it's time to look forward to the next month with reference to our new monthly pivots now set in stone, with t...

The big news of the day in optionstraderblogoshere is the VIX pumpage. Usually I would try to come up with some insightful market maxim, or ...

The story of the day from the options trader's perspective is not the crimson red condition of the stock indexes, it is the VIX pumpage ...

Although gold option volatility has settled into what looks like a base of around 20%, it is still usefully above realized vols at around 15...

Do I detect just a modicum of concern of this market via the VIX? Yes we are off a few points today and this invariably causes at least a bi...

An excellent post over at VIX And More about anchoring and expectations etc, anyway, Bill talks about the new VIX reality at it tanks towa...

As I have outlined in another thread, people who trade iron condors are usually taught to select short strikes at one standard deviation fro...

(Also posted at International Stock Forums .) As we head into the new week, once again I pull out my crystal ball (which I'm thinking of...

Gold volatility went into the tank today and with gold not far off those all time highs one has to wonder why. Below is the Chart of GLD wit...

The bulls will be feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning as it looks as though Intel earnings will be giving the Spoooz a leg up over resis...

So the S&P500 just about touches the high of the year from last month and slowly backs away. At this point I'm not going to remind y...

It seems the lucky ones amongst us will be graced with a few more years past 2012. Yep it seems that the end of the world has been postponed...

In the absence of anything notable to report re my current obsession with gold, I'll have a look today at my guru call from Sept 30. (N....

OK, so I have a thing about Gold at the moment. There is nothing unusual about that as half the universe has a thing about it at the moment....