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...2012 is likely to be another volatile year for financial markets as households, companies and even governments find it more difficult to borrow...  
   

Today Economics: jobless claims, prior 402K, sighting a below readings.

Trade of the day Short Ratio Put Spread spread on AMGN
Buy the Dec 60 Put  and sell twice the 55 Dec put.
In order to profit from this trade, we need the stock to declinea bit, see [VIDEO see below].

VIX Dec future trades the same as the VIX index 28.83.
Trades are looking at the 200 and 50 days moving average on the S&P consolidating to a narrow range with a shrinking volume.
Big trades on the 24 25 put's on Dec and Jan indication that the volatility may stay above these numbers and markets will continue to be volatile.
Furthermore, noted that big trades where on the Dec 30 35 out of the money bull spread on the VIX also a possibility of institutions trying to protect their long position in the stock market.
To those who do not understand the VIX mechanism on uncertain and or declining markets the VIX will rise. probably more significantly than any other instrument.

Some central banks in Europe started weighing contingency plans to prepare for possibility that countries leave the EZ by considering their currencies first time since the euros went into circulation in January 2002. Brussels summit may bring some hope for a solution to the two-year financial crisis and current doubts over countries' abilities to pay their debts.
Eurobonds: Germany 10 bond yields increasing, it shows using basic arithmetic that these bonds, sometimes. labeled ‘stability bonds,’, may actually be more likely to harm Eurozone stability.

 
Below a table of stocks with extensive options trading activity.  

Today's economic event :PPI, Core PPI...

VIX cash gained $0.98 to $32.85.  VIX futures still trades abnormally of it's "NORMAL" term structure, still implying higher volatility. Combining global market probability is more than 50% to the downside.
Our vision is, side ways to down market for the next 6 mo.
The "UpDown" signals are an outcome of calculated calls and puts implied volatility.Positive numbers higher calls IV traders believe that the stock will rise and are willing to pay more for the calls, the opposite goes for the puts.


 
We have scanned for stocks with extensive options trading activity.  

Arbitrage opportunities appear here and there, all the time in the financial markets. Pure 100% risk-free arbitrage is hard to spot, however it is essential to understand how the markets offer this opportunity, and then apply similar principles on other trades,.....   read more

 
   

Some technical setups on the stock charts, can fairly accurately indicate which direction the stock will go. Precision is always needed in trading, but with the flexibility of options and the tools of technical analysis,.....   read more

 
   

 
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