VIX Blog posts
Weekly Outlook - Bullish Short-Term with Overhead Resistance
The 2nd quarter of 2009 ended yesterday, with the markets showing gains for the quarter. Not many earnings reports are due in this shortened week (the market is closed Friday, July 3rd for Inde... more
Yo! Ho! Ho! TARP Subsidized "Captain Morgan Rum"
{ Updated 8:45 am CT} Before I get to TARP: Hey, Dennis "What's the VIX" Kneale, your market knowledge is limited at best. That is why you are on CNBC and have no career. Your economic vis... more
A look at First Solar (FSLR) Options Pricing
First Solar (FSLR) is a leader in the Solar Panel industry. The shares reached over the 300 level in early/mid 2008, before dropping as low as 85 in November 2008, and have since recovered to t... more
Price Headley's Weekly Market Outlook
June Expiration ended last Friday with the major indices down sharply for the week. We are also down thus far on Monday, with the S&P 500 Index (SPX) right around the round 900 level curren... more
TradeKing on CNBC’s Fast Money
If you missed my debut on CNBC’s Fast Money last Friday, I wanted to share this video link available on CNBC’s website. In this segment we talk about the VIX’s latest strange behavior, what it co... more
TradeKing Webinar Archives from June 2009
Below is a list of webinar archives from January 2009. You may also be interested in more recent archives or our FAQs for Webinars and Archives. These webinar archives have been moved to the new ... more
Weekly Market Outlook from Price Headley
June 8, 2009 Another up week for the major indices closed out on Friday ... the S&P 500 Index (SPX) has now closed higher 11 of the last 13 weeks and the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) has been up for 10 of... more
Fine-tuning your calendar spreads
Mark Wolfinger explains why selling options now might not be as juicy as before. TradeKing client KM6 thinks the market’s current rally is unsustainable and wants to trade that sentiment using ca... more
Tougher times for covered calls?
Mark Wolfinger explains why selling options now might not be as juicy as before. Trader Network veteran Spshapiro asked an interesting question in the forums recently: why is it tougher to sell c... more
Weekly Market Outlook from Price Headley
June 1, 2009 May trading ended with a sharp upmove in the last few minutes of the trading day on Friday, putting the major indices up for the week. Fairly light on the earnings reports this we... more
The VIX’s lowering limbo stick
After hitting stratospheric highs last fall, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is now hovering around 30, its lowest level since September 2008. What do lower VIX levels mean for future markets? And ... more
Market Thoughts Before Summer
Market Thoughts Before Summer It's nearly the end of May, and the indices are up a little more than 1% for the month. What happened to sell in May and go away? Of course, there is still anoth... more
Price Headley's Weekly Market Outlook
May 26, 2009 Despite some intra-week volatility, we closed out last week near unchanged on the major indices. Earnings reports this week are heavy in the retail/consumer sector, with names such... more
Oil up, dollar down, VIX boomeranging?: Friday Shout-out!
Hello, traders! The markets did a real zigzag this week, with the U.S. dollar declining against the British pound and Euro, even though it was the U.K. government’s credit rating that may be downgr... more
VIX Drops Below 30, Where to from here?
May 19, 2009 The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is dropping below 30 intra-day today, and looks safe at this point to have its first close below 30 since September 12th, 2008. I've mentioned sever... more
TradeKing Webinar Archives from May 2009
Below is a list of webinar archives from May 2009. You may also be interested in more recent archives or our FAQs for Webinars and Archives. These webinar archives have been moved to the new Lear... more
Price Headley's Weekly Market Outlook
May 18th, 2009 We closed out May Expiration with a down week for the major indices. Upcoming this week we have earnings from the likes of HPQ, HD, DE, TGT, GME, and CPB. Due on the economic cale... more
Weekly Market Outlook from Price Headley
The markets were up again last week, continuing the recent strong run. However, the S&P 500 (SPX) was largely driven by strength in a few sectors such as Financials and Commodities ... by comp... more
Give your strangle a directional spin
Doc Maher discusses how choosing your strikes can put a bullish or bearish spin on your strangle. I love it when All-Stars can get specific on a real-world trade by one of TradeKing’s clients. I... more
Bonds, Inflation, Gold & Swine Flu
April 29, 2009 News To Be Taken Seriously The latest excuse to sell is the discovery of the swine flu, which is becoming quite dangerous. It's being seen worldwide and is spreading at an alar... more
