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Sell to close the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) Mar 26 put option. Our GDX March 26 put option trade got off to a poor start as the surprisingly dovish tone of the September FOMC meeting worked against us, but the trade has now swung decidedly in our favor. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days This week, OPEC may have done something they hadn’t achieved in eight years: in Algiers, the cartel members provisionally agreed to a small production cut, to a… Read More

Eric Rosengren, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, was one of the three dissenters against the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to keep the federal funds rate unchanged—the first time three members of the committee had dissented since December 2014. Previously known as reliably dovish, Rosengren… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 19.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 16.2% Average Holding Period: 304 days Heading into the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, in light of conflicting public messages conveyed by Fed officials, there was a lot of confusion… Read More

A sign that we live in different times: The Bank of Japan (BoJ) set a rate target of zero for the 10-year bonds, another unprecedented move for the central bank that has failed to lift Japan out of decades-long stagflation despite several years of massive monetary stimulus via money printing… Read More

Market volatility has risen in recent days. Day-to-day swings have been large. Today marks the first trading session since last Thursday that the S&P 500 did not move at least 98 basis points. Confusing messages from top Fed officials helped to throw markets for a loop. Last… Read More

Buy to open the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Mar 214 put option, set a limit order of $11.00. Buy to open the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) Mar 26 put option, set a limit order of $3.25. Our stock and gold stock indicators have become bearish enough… Read More

Today the S&P 500 had its worst day since the first trading day after the Brexit referendum. The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Eric Rosengren warned that waiting too long to raise rates could cause the U.S. economy to overheat and risk financial stability. As someone who… Read More

As has often occurred in the “will they” or “won’t they”—the ongoing saga as regards the Fed’s interest rate policy—the economic data does not cooperate with the central bank’s desire to normalize rates. Less than one week after Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer stoked market worries that it may in… Read More