Mr. TopStep from the floor of the CME talks about end of the year trading.
Jamie discusses the move down in the VIX and VIX futures.
Danny discusses the possibility that the market may be faded after the Fed announcement.
Jamie discusses the dynamic in the VIX cash futures and the break in the term structure of the futures creating a healthy market phenomena.
Jason discusses the blowout to the upside and how the SPZ’s held support 1035 and a possible push up back above 1063.
Dannydiscusses that everything revolves around the dollar and taking the contrarian view and going long on weakness. The SPY is right at it’s trendline.
Jason discusses the quiet trading day and the possibility of a month end rally going into the end of the week.
Jamie dicusses the yo yo day in the market and the VIX and possible reasons why. Also the extreme call buying in the VIX.
Jamie discusses the pop on the VIX after the treasury auctions completed this afternoon.
Jon fills in today concerning the SPY support at 1070 and the big rollover today in the SPY.
Brian Shepard talks about the market selling off recently on news.
Danny Riley is back. 5 Billion of notional S&P E-minis to sell on stops triggered when market sold off yesterday on the Wells Fargo downgrade. Also Floored the movie comes out in Austin this week
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Jamie Tyrell draws attention to the amount of puts STILL being bought on Wednesday, October 21 when VIX was sitting at multi-month lows and prior to the spike Wednesday afternoon (when S&P dropped).
Tim talks about the SPX being at gap resistance and the earnings relationship between the DJIA and SPX.
Jamie discusess the last day to trade the Oct. VIX options and what happens with the Nov. contracts tomorrow.
Jason discusses the two way trade in the SPY with earnings of CAT and the rate hike in Brazil.
Jason explains the replay of the action of the last four Monday’s, dip buyers keep showing up and improtant levels to look for.
Jamie explains the market’s hot streak and the continue fall off the VIX before Wednesday’s expiration.
Danny Riley reports on Friday the potential to hold the morning levels after Bank of America’s earnings, and possibly lift into the afternoon. For week of October 19-23, look for a potential pullback now that many stops on the upside have been run in the recent weeks, leaving less buyers.
Danny Riley reports on Friday the potential to hold the morning levels after Bank of America’s earnings, and possibly lift into the afternoon. For week of October 19-23, look for a potential pullback now that many stops on the upside have been run in the recent weeks, leaving less buyers.
Jamie Tyrell reminds us it is NOT an expiration for the VIX while it is expiration for the rest of the market. The VIX is in a long cycle. Jamie mentions the 22.5 puts and 25 calls in play.
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Tim Haefke draws attention to the DOW futures instead of the S&P futures as usual. Tim notices the DOW futures has NOT penetrated the gap from last year’s drop while the S&P has-Tim believes this is a cause for concern.
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Jamie Tyrell of Group1 Trading talks about low VIX because we didn’t get the volatility out of the Goldman Sachs & Citigroup earnings that folks expected. Big news in VIX is new strikes 24 and 26’s in Nov and December.
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Jamie Tyrell mentions Volatility starting to live in the low 20’s.
Danny DBOY Riley makes the call for S&P 1100 to the upside. Folks will try to sell this down with markets being thin up here, but dips will be bought.
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Jason Carter on the floor of the CME mentions the light volume morning and news in the financials with Goldman Sachs being downgraded to Neutral from Buy by Meredith Whitney and CIT bankruptcy fears.
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Jamie Tyrell of Group1 Trading mentions the October 27.5 calls for the VIX got quite a bit of trading in the morning as some signs of fear stepped in.
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Brian Shepard looks ahead to Monday’s holiday session where the S&P will be open for trading, but interest rates and forex will be closed.
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Jamie Tyrell brings attention to the lowest VIX reading of the week, even though VIX is typically low on Friday’s with the weekend ahead.
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Brian Shepard discusses the upside targets, not-so-bad retail numbers, and 500 contacts Goldman bought over 1063 in S&P.
Jamie Tyrell emphasizes the big trade in the VIX today in the December contract with 120,000 contracts traded.
Brian Shepard reports from CME S&P 500 pits, focusing on firmer dollar overnight due to Russians buying.
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Jamie shows front month VIX options and the reduced volatility required in the front months on a consolidation day like today.
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Jamie Tyrell of Group1 Trading examines drop in VIX during this week’s rally, drop in dollar, and gold making new highs.
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Jason Carter from S&P pits mentions S&P up 42 points since 1012 low a couple days ago without a real pause. Jason gives options ideas to protect against the downside and looking at dollar and crude going forward.
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Jason Carter from S&P pits mentions S&P up 42 points since 1012 low a couple days ago without a real pause. Jason gives options ideas to protect against the downside and looking at dollar and crude going forward.
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Jason Carter explains the mechanics behind a “Mutual Fund Monday” like today. Also, Jason mentions the first time we’re having 2 consecutive down week’s since June.
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Jamie Tyrell talks about disagreements in long term direction of the VIX, with the markets having pulled back 5% in the S&P 500 after touching as high as 1070.
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Introduction of the 7 guys at the Mr. Topstep desk and what they do.
Danny Riley in the S&P 500 pits insight into what floor traders watch coming into big economic numbers like today’s job’s report. Danny also explains what they saw prior to the jobs report, what trading activity had already occurred, and how it affected the market open.
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Danny Riley in the S&P 500 pits discuss the Topstep levels of 1045 on the S&P as the focus coming into today, the sell-stop triggers after the economic data this morning that led the markets into a tailspin, and outlook and statistics going forward. These floor traders in the S&P pits are the major league [...]
Jamie Tyrell of Group1 Trading focus on the market drop after a ton of data this morning and VIX popping through the 27 threshold level.
Jason Carter talks about the S&P 500’s movement today on the Consumer Confidence report, and what the reaction today may mean for the rest of the week with Employment reports at the end of the week.
Jamie Tyrell of Group1 Trading discussing the low volume in VIX contacts on Monday for Yom Kippur, 22k contracts traded vs. over 150k average. Despite volume picking up for industry, VIX volume was still aimed at below average for Tuesday, 9.29,09
Brian Shepard discusses the drop in the markets this morning as continuation from yesterday’s afternoon sell-off after the Fed announcement. Yesterday, the S&P futures hit 1075.75, the target projected from Tuesday 9.22.09 Mr. Topstep video by Jason Carter.
Tim Hefkee a.k.a. “Top Notch” fills in, discussing the gap last year from September 29th to October 6th.
Jamie Tyrell reports activity in VIX futures. There are sellers of premium not because they think the VIX will fall, but the VIX will not move much from these levels.
Jason Carter highlights the important levels in the S&P 500 to the upside and possible targets.
Jamie Tyrell mentions yesterday as the lowest volume day for VIX in 2 months. Also, November strangle trade.
Jamie Tyrell of Group One Trading highlights recent phenomenon of VIX at-the-money straddle expanding whenever the S&P is down over the weekend. Also, selling of VIX in outer months.
Danny Riley on post-expiration Monday, focusing on S&P futures selloff overnight and the stabilization into the morning session.
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