Gold Can’t Find a Bid
This was the week Greece inched closest to chaos, as a bank holiday and a technical default caused markets around the world to erupt in...
Looking for for Volatility in All the Wrong Places
Where has all the stock market volatility gone? U.S. equities have been surprisingly quite the past three years. There hasn’t been...
Futures: New Layout at Bloomberg
I really like the clean web layout for Bloomberg Futures (free): click for updated futures
Flash Crash a Perfect Storm for Markets
Great couple of graphics from the WSJ this AM. This is the simple version, a short explanatory overlaid on a graph: Perfect Storm...
Margin Debt Hits an All-Time High . . . So What?
A Market Indicator That Predicts Nothing Its predictive value is minimal. Bloomberg, April 29, 2015 Every now...
Spoofing & the Flash Crash
Earlier this week a trader was arrested in London and accused of “spoofing.” What’s spoofing and what does it have to...
Nikkei Dow > 20,000
Great discussion from my pal Peter Boockvar of the Lindsey Group on Japan: The Nikkei closed above 20,000 for the first time since April...
Survey Says…
Joseph Saluzzi (jsaluzzi-at-ThemisTrading.com) and Sal L. Arnuk (sarnuk-at-ThemisTrading.com) are co-heads of the equity trading desk at...