by Brandon Zamucen | Mar 22, 2025 | AJ Monte, Market Insights, Trading Strategies, Volatility
Despite markets closing the week on a slightly higher note, $DIA finished with a lower-high/lower low candle. One day does not make the markets, but this PIVOT POINT is significant. To dial it back, market volatility is here, in a big way, and it is important to...
by Brandon Zamucen | Mar 19, 2025 | AJ Monte, Market Insights, Technical Analysis, Trading Strategies, Volatility
The S&P had it’s best Fed day since July; Hear more from AJ Monte as he discusses the short term upside expected in the markets and his updated views on the VIX, S&P, Dow, and additional market commentary in his 19-Mar-25 MidWeek Market Report: back to...
by Brandon Zamucen | Feb 17, 2025 | AJ Monte, Risk Management, Trading Strategies, Volatility
In 1993, Professor Bob Whaley created the Volatility Index, which forever changed the way options were traded in the open market. Up until that time, floor traders relied on the Black-Scholes model to calculate the fair value of the options they traded. While the...
by Brandon Zamucen | Feb 13, 2025 | AJ Monte, Market Insights, Risk Management, Volatility
Market volatility is here because of a combination of factors that create unpredictability in the markets. Economic uncertainties, geopolitical tensions, and market sentiment shifts fuel fluctuations in asset prices. Events like central bank policy changes, inflation...
by Brandon Zamucen | Feb 10, 2025 | AJ Monte, Market Insights, Risk Management, Trading Strategies, Volatility
In the 40+ years that I’ve been trading the markets I’ve found the Volatility Index to be one of the best leading indicators for forecasting price action. While the VIX is known to be an oscillating index, it follows the technical signals like any stock would. If...
by Brandon Zamucen | Feb 8, 2025 | AJ Monte, Market Insights, Risk Management, Technical Analysis, Volatility
With less than 10% of 2025 in the books, we’ve already seen a resurgence in market volatility, a spike in interest in hard assets (specifically Gold and Silver), and a hyper concentration in a handful of equity names like we have never seen before. Per Goldman Sachs,...
