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		<title>Wall Street 2011 in Review – A Year of “Sturm und Drang”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an old saying on Wall Street that “bull markets climb a wall of worry.” It means that the higher the market goes, the more fearful investors become that the market will drop and their gains will be lost. It’s the age-old dilemma of an investor with a profit: “Do I take my profit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trading Relative Performance: New NASDAQ OMX Alpha Index Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zecco Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been more than two years since the market crash of 2008, and traders and investors are looking for opportunities to take part in potential profits in specific stocks, while at the same time trying to avoid the risk of a massive market decline. Developing new hedging strategies is about to get easier thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customized Volatility: A VIX For Everyone</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/03/customized-volatility-a-vix-for-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think the world is VIX-y now, just wait, it&#8217;s about to get VIX-ier. This, from the CBOE. The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that it has filed for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to list options based on recently-created volatility indexes that track individual stocks —Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Goldman Sachs (GS), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The VIX: Calculating Expected Daily Price Changes</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/03/the-vix-calculating-expected-daily-price-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Warner’s first post on ZeccoPulse frames the VIX in an interesting way, pointing out that the VIX doesn’t “trade” like a stock because it’s really only a statistic. Speaking of statistics, you’ll often hear people who comment on the VIX discuss how the VIX  “implies” that the market could move a certain percentage on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIX/VXV Ratio: Volatility Expected, But When?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the implied volatility for S&#38;P 500 options that expire in three months be higher or lower than for options that expire in one month? Usually you’ll find that traders predict less volatility in the shorter term than over the longer term – at least to the extent that implied volatility represents an expectation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charting the VIX: Does Technical Analysis Work?</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/02/charting-the-vix-does-technical-analysis-work/</link>
		<comments>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/02/charting-the-vix-does-technical-analysis-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can view a chart of the VIX just as you can for any stock. Just enter the symbol, add some moving averages, maybe even some Bollinger Bands and RSI indicators and you’re on your way. In fact, here’s a chart of the VIX going back about six months (as of February 23) with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single-Stock VIX Levels Compared to VIX and VXN</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/01/single-stock-vix-levels-compared-to-vix-and-vxn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday’s sharp price action saw the S&#38;P 500 shed nearly 1.8% and the NASDAQ fall by almost 2.5% – wiping out much of January’s gains. As for implied volatility, it spiked to highs for the month – at least as measured by two popular indices. The VIX, which measures implied volatility for S&#38;P 500 index [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What About a VIX For Financials?</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/01/what-about-a-vix-for-financials/</link>
		<comments>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/01/what-about-a-vix-for-financials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there are new single-stock VIX indices now, why couldn’t you also have a “sector VIX”? As I mentioned in a previous post, the CBOE is now using its VIX methodology to provide an index of the one-month implied volatility for five individual stocks (AAPL, AMZN, IBM, GOOG, and GS). Only one of those stocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Stock VIX Values: A Longer-Term View</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/01/single-stock-vix-values-a-longer-term-view/</link>
		<comments>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/01/single-stock-vix-values-a-longer-term-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I took a look at the new single-stock VIX-type indices that the CBOE is now publishing on five individual stocks. In theory, these indices should measure the hypothetical one-month implied volatility for options on these stocks (AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, GS, and IBM) – just as the VIX does for options on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Stock “VIX” Levels: Comparing Two Sets Of Data</title>
		<link>http://ceoblog.zecco.com/2011/01/single-stock-vix-levels-comparing-two-sets-of-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Luby noted that the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) will be publishing “VIX index values” for these five individual stocks. Amazon (AMZN) Apple (AAPL) Google (GOOG) Goldman Sachs (GS) IBM (IBM) According to the CBOE, these single-stock “VIX-like” indices will measure implied volatility for options on these stocks in a similar way that the [...]]]></description>
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