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  • Expiring Monthly January 2012 Issue Recap


    VIX and More — Authority Authority: 498
    I may have been away on vacation for the last two weeks, but that doesn’t mean my brain was entirely at rest. In fact I was particularly busy in the January 2012 edition of Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal , which was published last week and is available for subscribers to download . As the table ...
    18 hours ago

  • Comparing Currency-Hedged and Unhedged Holdings


    Canadian Capitalist — Authority Authority: 504
    In the past couple of updates on the performance of currency-neutral funds, we found that these funds do not quite live up to the expectation of removing the effects of currency fluctuations for a modest cost. Instead the currency-neutral funds show a performance lag ranging from 2.33% for the iShares S&P 500 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Evolving Strategy for Capturing Volatility Gains


    The Market Playground — Authority Authority: 463
    By Robert Zingale The consistent fear of the European debt crisis caused volatility to behave erratically during the second half of 2011. This caused VIX futures to enter into backwardation for a prolonged period of time, which made the VIX roll-yield work against my short volatility position. This forced me to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • No Twinkie Defense for Rising Commodity Costs – Hostess Files for Bankruptcy


    MetalMiner — Authority Authority: 116
    Having spent the better part of a day earlier this week attending a seminar on Effective Financial Management, led by Glenn Waring of Effective Organization (a great seminar, I would add) and re-learning how a company can calculate its “Z” score (defined as the likelihood of ending up in bankruptcy), I found it ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Performance of the Currency-Neutral MSCI EAFE Index Fund


    Canadian Capitalist — Authority Authority: 504
    [Note: This post was originally published on January 6, 2010. Ive updated it with the data for the past two years on the performance of the iShares MSCI EAFE CAD-Hedged Index Fund (TSX: XIN) relative to MSCI EAFE local currency returns. Bottom line: Though the performance lag of the past two years was slight, the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • A timely confirmation of risky behaviour


    FT Alphaville — Authority Authority: 687
    ECB papers are rarely the most riveting of reads but sometimes one crops up which is more attention-grabbing than usual… This particular case, a paper by Biais, Heider and Hoerova,...
    2 weeks ago

  • Risk Management — To Hedge or Not to Hedge (Part 1)


    E-Sourcing Forum — Authority Authority: 100
    Since the turn of the century, they have experienced the wrath of volatile price fluctuations (mainly price up) in their commodity markets. The Holy Grail in procurement is to achieve a position in the firm where its function is no longer justifying its existence and focusing on an internal sales job. This goal is ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Silver Looking Likely for Further Falls


    MetalMiner — Authority Authority: 116
    The current silver market illustrates the value of spread betting as an indication of future price trends. Of course, this depends on the herd mentality holding sway — that a growing number of long bets means the price will rise and a growing number of short bets means it will fall. But by the very [...]
    2 weeks ago

  • LME Introduces Swaps Clearing for Non-Ferrous Metals – Part One


    MetalMiner — Authority Authority: 116
    MetalMiner welcomes back guest contributor Spencer O. Johnson, who has worked at INTL-FCStone as the primary risk management associate for steel since December 2009. Johnson co-authored this post with Dr. Mo Ahmadzadeh. For more than 125 years, the LME has insisted that physical delivery is the necessary mechanism to ...
    3 weeks ago

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