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Apple: the Last Uncommoditized Company
You won’t be able to avoid this story tonight: the 3G iPhone is here, and it’s everything everyone was hoping for. It’s faster, supports Exchange, has GPS, and is half the price of the first version....
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Midweek Smeagol Reading
In a note yesterday morning to members, we were looking for an oversold rally, and said rally still has yet to materialize in any big way. We still think the S&P will close the week closer to 1300...
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Buy Signals: SPX, AAPL
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Apple Nonsense Vertical
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Beta and Risk in Troubled Markets, Part 1
The old maxim is that when major market movements occur, all betas go to one. We decided to look at the beta for a few stocks during 2008 to determine whether and to what extent that maxim held true....
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Beta and Risk in Troubled Markets, Part 2
In this mini-series, we’re examining the value of beta as a measurement of risk. In this post, we want to examine how the betas of some popular stocks, indexes, and ETFs changed during 2008 and...
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Option Spreads and Positive Expectancy
Reader Peter T. writes in with a very good question: Then are several places on the site where you mention that you prefer to let the probabilities play out and not adjust condors. I calculated the...
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Why I’m Not Worried about VIX Derivatives
The team at FT Alphaville have been on a tear recently, analyzing all manner of VIX-related issues and potential problems. I’ve linked to those posts below, and they’re definitely worth reading even...
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Trading Apple’s Relative Performance with AVSPY
AAPL really took it on the chin on Tuesday, as traders were apparently of the view that the most important feature of the next iPhone would be its name. I wrote up a trade using the NASDAQ OMX Alpha...
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The Apple VIX and Some Applications
I got the chance to chat yesterday with Phil Pearlman of Stocktwits for Reuters TV. We were talking about VXAPL, the CBOE’s application of the popular VIX methodology to AAPL options. Here are some...
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