We’re back for part two with Noel Smith @NoelConvex – where we dig into the types of options and volatility strategies, he employs for his Convex AM hedge fund. For the background on why he’s worth listening to on that front, listen to Part 1 about marketing making on the CBOE floor, Getco, and more […]
Category: VIX and Volatility
05
May
2022
The Glory Days, Market Making & Trading Options at the CBOE with Noel Smith of Convex AM
This week, we’re painting the picture of what life on Chicago’s option trading floors was like at the CBOE…but there’s a catch — we put it all on the table and needed two episodes! Today’s guest came into asset management in a round-about way – trading his own money for decades before venturing into the […]
04
May
2022
VOLATILITY JEDI TRAINING IS TRULY NEVER DONE…
May the Fourth is a special day for Star Wars fans to unite worldwide and celebrate the franchise’s movies, series, video games, comics, and all other aspects of the iconic science fiction universe created in 1977 by filmmaker George Lucas. *cues the Star Wars anthem* One may not believe that Investing and Star Wars go […]
21
Apr
2022
What’s New about the New -1x/+2x VIX ETFs SVIX and UVIX with Stuart Barton, Jim Carroll and Vance Harwood
A little over four years since 2018’s Volmageddon, and 2 years after TVIX got terminated – two new VIX ETF’s were recently launched – the 1x short VIX exposure SVIX and 2x long VIX exposure UVIX by VelocityShares. What’s different about them, how do they protect against another Feb of 2018 event. We’re going straight […]
10
Mar
2022
Vol Persistence, The Unholy Trinity of Risk, and the (100 yr) Dragon Portfolio for our 100th episode with Chris Cole
Picture this…Downtown Chicago…December 2019 B.C. (Before COVID)…The RCM crew is venturing out to a small studio ready to record the first episode of The Derivative, with no video or clue what we were doing! Who would have thought we would be crossing the 100th episode mark just two short years later!? And, we couldn’t celebrate […]
24
Feb
2022
VIX in the 30s, talking market shocks and VIX spikes with Brian Stutland of Equity Armor
With news of Russia invading Ukraine, it was as scary, market-wise, as it’s been since March of 2020 with global stock indices selling off rapidly overnight to send the Nasdaq into bear market territory, SP into correction, and the Nikkei to 15-month low. As the craziness ensued, VIX spiked up to 34 – so we got VIX expert […]
15
Feb
2022
Mutual Fund Performance: January
The start of the New Year provided a rude awakening to the few remaining people lulled to sleep by the die-hard equities bull market. While the world faced the worst COVID case spike of the pandemic, it also had to come to terms with a more hawkish posture from the Fed. Markets trended hard for […]
03
Feb
2022
Wood is Good! With the Lords of Lumber: Stinson Dean and Kyle Little
Timmberrrrr…welcome to the world of lumber! We’re laying the lumber in this episode talking through an exciting world some know as timber; others as fiber or wood, and the futures world as Lumber. Whatever you call it, it is impacting today’s market with its wild swings, and in this episode, we’re getting down to the […]
27
Jan
2022
Protecting the Portfolio not with Long Vol, but with Long Gamma, with Convexitas
When in Rome do as the Romans do?…Did they have convexity? They had the word, convexitas, and in this episode, we are joined by not one, but TWO brainiacs in the option and vol space, Devin Anderson and Zed Francis from Convexitas. Devin and Zed making noise in the derivative world by launching the first […]
06
Jan
2022
2021’s Vol moves, 2022’s outlook, Meme stocks, Option Flows and KAI with Cem Karsan
We’re kickstarting the 2022 season of The Derivative with fan favorite – Cem Karsan. In this episode, the FinTwit star better known as @jamcroissant and his calls on Gary and Gamma and Vol and Vanna, digs into the interesting 2021 Vol moves, what 2022 may look like in the vol space (not good…or good, depending […]
