Overall, the term structure reflects the market's outlook for gradually increasing volatility in the coming months. It's a guide strategies around volatility trading, hedging, and managing risk exposure in anticipation of market shifts.

September is historically weak for global equities and risk assets due to a combination of behavioral, technical, and macroeconomic factors. Here are the reasons.

The stock market tends to exhibit certain seasonal patterns, where some months historically perform worse than others.

The single best argument against taxing unrealized gains is the liquidity issue.

A capital gains tax on unrealized gains and property tax are not the same, though both are forms of taxation. Here's how they differ

A review and summary of The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.

The Equal Weight S&P 500 is at an all-time high with broad participation, with more than 75% of stocks trending above their 50 and 200-day averages.

The U.S. dollar (USD) is not backed by a physical commodity like gold or silver anymore. Instead, its value is derived from these factors.

Being a "Vanna-Charmer" implies that the person is not just trading options, but is doing so with a sophisticated understanding of how certain risk factors, like vanna, can be leveraged to enhance their trading strategy and returns.

A list of some notable publicly traded sports teams and how their stocks have performed.

Chief Investment Officer: The unemployment level provides a current assessment, the rate of change is often a leading indicator that can signal future economic trends.

Tennessee investment adviser explains price controls lead to shortages if suppliers reduce production, reduced quality if producers can't change enough to be profitable, and reduced incentives for innovation where research and development costs are high.

If the S&P 500 trend is any guide, we'll soon see if the oversold condition was enough to shake out those who wanted to sell and bring prices to a low enough point to attract buying.

Can market makers see your stop-loss orders?

An asymmetric hedge structures an investment hedge to offset risk in other holdings with an asymmetric payoff such that the potential profit from the hedge is materially greater than the amount of risk taken to achieve it.

Now those stocks are declining the most, but the rest of the market is entering an downtrend.

Tennessee investment adviser shares observations of investor sentiment and the state of the U.S. stock market.

Shell Capital Management, LLC, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Shell Capital was founded by Mike Shell in August 2004.

Quantitative mathematical measures of price trends are probabilistic, never a sure thing, so we use these gauges like a windsock, knowing the sector is now at an inflection point of trending back up and resuming the primary uptrend, or watching for indications of a new deeper, longer lasting downtrend.

The longevity of large, established companies can often be overestimated due to a natural lifecycle many organizations follow, similar to the product lifecycle. Large companies that have enjoyed decades of success and market dominance can become more vulnerable as they grow because of inertia, structural complexity, and resistance to change—factors that can make them slow to adapt to evolving technologies, market demands, or shifts in consumer behavior.