Beta test of Schwab’s new StreetSmart Edge?
Sign up here to be a “SmartStreet Edge insider”. It might only amount to email updates of when it will be released, but it could provide some early access.
Review of Fidelity’s Active Trader Pro
My observations on Fidelity’s Active Trader Pro® (10.7) The comments below related to the downloaded version of Active Trader Pro. Highlighted Functionality Active Trader Pro’s ability to export charts (including intraday data) for both regular securities and options is very helpful for doing analysis Quotes/Tracking for various volatility indexes (e.g., .VIX9D, .VIX3M, .VVIX, .VIF, etc.) has been added Greeks on VIX options are much better. …
Quarterly Update Service
This service provides quarterly email updates of selected spreadsheets that you have purchased from Six Figure Investing. The updates will be sent out around the second week of January, April, July, and October. The spreadsheets will be updated to at least the last trading day of the previous quarter, any splits / reverse splits will be accounted for, and any unusual events (e.g., unscheduled market …
Bullish moves…
On Monday I bought back into XIV at 138.87, it doesn’t appear that the market will follow last Friday’s plunge. Instead we are getting more of a snap-back like we had on the mini-correction starting January 19th. On Tuesday, bought SPY at 129.71 and sold-to-open S130 weekly calls expiring this Friday (4-Feb) at $0.57 for a net debit of 129.14. .
Volatility and Bond moves
VIX was touching / very close to the lower 2 sigma Bollinger band this morning, so I sold my XIV position at 150.13. Bought some IEF (Barclays 7-10 Treasuries) at 93.80 because it was near the low end of its current trading range, will go ex-dividend next week (1-Feb) with a dividend of around $0.24/share, and tends to go up if equities go down. Later …
