ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Adapting Moving Averages To Market Volatility by Tushar S. Chande, Ph.D. If a market is active, it has volatility: that cannot be avoided. And because the market is continuously changing, an indicator that attempts to predict market activity must itself
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fibonacci, Elliott And Volatility by Paul G. Williams Suppose we could chart volatility just as we chart conventional prices. Then we could use Elliott wave analysis, Fibonacci characteristics and cycle techniques to forecast greater or lesser volatilit
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Four Measures Of Market Volatility by Frederic Ruffy How do you read the CBOE's new measures of volatility? Find out here. The CBOE volatility index (VIX) was last modified in September 2003. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) reconstructed the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Measuring Volatility by Jean-Olivier Fraisse Are financial markets becoming more and more volatile? Can they still attract the small investor, even with such impressive fluctuations in daily prices? Is program trading a source of additional volatility?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (14-20): Persistent Option Volatility by Roger Ison, Ph.D. Do you really understand what your options model is doing? Let's find out. If you trade options, you know that mathematical option models are essential tools and, g
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (14-20): The Truth About Volatility by Jim Berg Many indicators can help identify volatility. But can you use them to target specific price areas for entry signals, trailing stops, and profit-taking opportunities? Typically
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking A Position On A Measure Of Fear, Trading Volatility by Russell Rhoads, CFA The Cboe Volatility Index has been used as a measure of fear in the market, but there's more to it than that. Find out how you can use the Vix to take a position when you
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading clues from options volatility by Dave Caplan The significance of volatility is overlooked and underestimated by most traders in the options area. This includes both the effect of volatility on the premium cost of an option when purchased, and th
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading options volatility by Andrew J. Sterge Options are much more than a hedging vehicle or leveraged way of participating in spot or futures markets. Indeed, options create strategies that did not exist before in trading an option's underlying instr
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading options volatility by John Nelson and Stephen Kreis The objective in trading options is generally a rather straightforward one--buy the premiums low and sell them high. For many traders there is no need to make ""option action"" any more complica
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading volatility by Andrew Sterge In the winter and spring of 1989, I made a series of Eurodollar options trades which show the logic of ""trading volatility."" This sort of trading is the bread and butter of many institutional traders, that is to say
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trend And Volatility by Jesse Chen This combination can help you determine your optimum spread strategy. In options trading, you often either become attached to a few spread strategies or end up gambling on individual calls or puts. Unfortunately, no r
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volatility by Arthur A. Merrill, C.M.T. Does the degree of volatility in the stock market give us any clue to the future of the market? I tested day-to-day volatility and found that it does have a good forecasting record. I took the percent change of t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: Can Beta Help You Battle Volatility? by David Penn Of all the enemies of capital appreciation, stock price volatility is one of the most immediate. Can beta help you know when your stock or portfolio volatility is out of control? Traditi