Larry Shover
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Invest with whole economy in mind, not just one good or bad indicator
Though we are a decade out from the Great Recessions and Wall Street benchmarks continue to notch record highs, the “bitter bears” – or large swath of mavens who’ve been solidly negative since 2009 – are calling for a swift end to the optimism. → Read More
Warning About Tomorrow: A 2016 Market Forecast
This 2016 forecast is based on two key themes which include the imagined control of central bank policymakers and the ease with which we fool ourselves. → Read More
September Summed Up: Uncertainty Avoidance
September was a month in which the markets forgot about the worries of Greece, the ECB actin, or the improvement in the U.S. economy...and turned instead to a potential hard landing in China. → Read More
Making Sense of Inexplicable Market Moves
Over the last couple of weeks, markets have taken on a life of their own and news can and has been twisted to try and explain the confusing action. → Read More
Greece: A Case Study of When Helping Hurts
Once the market comes to its senses, it will realize that the rising or falling of Greece is inconsequential as compared to the overall discouragement of anti-austerity movements elsewhere on the continent. → Read More
Getting Prepared for Life Above Zero
Despite this morning’s BLS report winding up slightly opposite of the street undertones, it wound up being perceived as sturdy enough to dust off conversations of perhaps a rate hike in June. → Read More
Gold Rises Amid a World Full of Risk and Uncertainty
Gold’s price action is pointing to perhaps yet another expansion in risk appetite: One that recognizes the various and sundry risks surrounding us but favors a positive outcome for now. → Read More
The Surface of Options Volatility
Mingling any probability concept, function, or measure with financial markets – where possibility combinations and ultimate outcomes are basically limitless – lies somewhere between an esoteric art form and plain foolery. → Read More
Deflating the Disinflation Trade
Relationships and correlations are fun to watch and ponder about however, over-thinking them could disable you from seeing the next bad data point or even the next crisis. → Read More
Homage to the Futures Pits
Our country needs viable stock and commodities exchanges – not casinos where trading is tempted to turn into nothing but technology business. → Read More
A Winters Storm Market – Thinking Rightly About the Random
We are surrounded by the beautiful notion of randomness - there is no free lunch in investing. To think otherwise is to misunderstand the nature of markets, risk and reward. → Read More
The Likely Fallout of Switzerland’s Surprise Move
The free-floating of a currency is standard financial fare, but it's the timing of the Swiss central bank's move that has investors and corporations puzzled. → Read More
Yesterday was Easy: When Unknowns Were Really Unknown
Growth jolts, policy angst and civic unrest aside, oil will eventually normalize – not because it must or it always has/does but, due to simple supply vs. → Read More
Next Year's Market Mantra: All that Shimmers
This year equities encountered five deeply-worn potholes, which quickly disappeared in the rearview mirror as the markets drove on to double-digit returns. → Read More
Investing with Courage in the New Year
Oddly, 2014 may be among those years where acquiring the captions beforehand could’ve been painfully detrimental the pocketbook! Face it, all markets are challenging however. → Read More
How Fast Can Options Winners Run?
Taking profits off the table raises a trader's comfort level, allowing him to stay with a trade longer...and rolling positions help in the psychological game. → Read More
Speculators Still Stuck in the Oil Patch
The cure for lower prices is lower prices...but whether the price action is eventually toxic to U.S. markets remains to be seen. → Read More
The Urban Legend and the Options Delta
Delta is the measure of the relationship between the price of an option and the price of its underlying, and is also referred to as a hedge ratio. → Read More
Acoustic Shadows and Gold
The gold trade's current pricing appears overly correlated to the sensory surrounding us while the far distant chaos isn’t being properly discerned. → Read More
Coming to Terms with Options Trading and its Higher Moments
Skew is all about possible loss that you can’t predict and can’t control and it’s the result of living in an imperfect world with imperfect people → Read More