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Excerpt from the VIX Expiry webinar with Russell Rhoads, Instructor at the CBOE Options Institute. As background to understanding and trading the VIX (CBOE Volatility Index), Russell Rhoads explains how the VIX Index is calculated and it's relation to the VIX Futures contracts.
DATE: Recorded November 29, 2011. After Market Close
Excerpt from the VIX Expiry webinar with Russell Rhoads, Instructor at the CBOE Options Institute. Russell Rhoads explains the details of the VIX expiration settlement process, including how the VIX Index is calculated.
DATE: Recorded November 29, 2011. After Market Close
As we come to the end of the year, we look back with gratitude for all of you who make Hamzei Analytics the truly special community that it is.
Looking ahead, we will continue to show our appreciation in many ways, especially our commitment to providing you with real-time analysis, cutting edge indicators, lively chatroom discussions, and access to market intelligence and commentary that you will not find anywhere else. Our promise to you for the New Year is to ensure that Hamzei Analytics remains a user friendly & technically sophisticated environment and a supportive & intelligent community.
I would also like to thank every member of Hamzei Analytics Team, our Moderators and Presenters whom you know, as well as those who work behind the scenes. If I have not said it enough in the past, allow me to say it here now: "Thank you."
As we pause and reflect, let us be appreciative for what we have and thankful for the blessings that have been bestowed on us. The true "treasures" are health and happiness and real "wealth" is time spent with loved ones. My wish for you in 2012 is that this year be the best yet. I look forward to many productive, challenging, and good times ahead for our community.
With my best wishes for a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year……..
Long time institutional futures broker George Cavaligos answers questions about spreads for treasury bonds and notes. Specifically, Cavaligos discusses what the ratio should be between different bonds and notes used in a spread.
From the Q&A session of the Treasury Bonds & Notes webinar, George Cavaligos explains how, for many central banks, treasury bonds and notes are becoming a new global currency.
George Cavaligos lists several things beginning bond traders should know about the treasury market including what influences the treasury market and how to trade treasury bonds and notes. This clip is from the Q&A session of the Treasury Bonds and Notes Webinar with George Cavaligos.
Excerpt from Treasury Bonds & Notes webinar with George Cavaligos, a long time institutional futures broker. Cavaligos explains the basics of the treasury market, treasury spreads, and the details of various treasury futures contracts as they relate to stock and equity futures traders.
http://twitter.com/hamzeianalytics - With the FED's Operation Twist program starting this week, George Cavaligos (MF Global) gives us a look at the curve flattening on the 10-30 Yr Curve as George previewed in the FED update video. George goes over some potential target levels in the 10-30 Yr spread trade as well as developments in the technical patterns of the 10-Year December contract.
(video clip from Jeffrey Spotts' 9/14/11 Webinar)
Hedge Fund Manager Jeffrey Spotts shares how he started on Wall Street and some of his influences for his investment style. Today, he continues managing with a blend of fundamental analysis using William O'Neil's methods and technical analysis using DeMark indicators.
In this excerpt, Jeffrey Spotts also shows examples of analyzing the foreign markets using DeMark on a longer term Quarterly time frame and some insights into how he does it.
Follow Jeffrey Spotts on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spottsontrends
Website: http://spottsontrends.com
Download this full webinar: http://hamzeianalytics.com/educational_webinars.asp
Title:
Hedge Manager Jeffrey Spotts speaks on specific equities, US stock market, European banks and the Treasury market.
Date:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
About Jeffrey Spotts
Following his 12-year tenure at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, Mr. Jeff Spotts launched his first successful fund in 2001. His goal is to generate significant absolute returns in any market. His method includes a combination of analyzing the ”sponsorship trend”, relative strength position, and fundamental qualities of each company. Influenced by William O’Neil and Tom Demark, Mr. Spotts understands that price action is the most telling factor in the market, and that good timing can be achieved through a confluence of indications.
His audited track record since 1998 has produced a gross return of 1,980%, with no down calendar years, or monthly drawdowns greater than 11%.
Mr. Spotts regularly appears on FoxBusiness, Bloomberg TV and CNBC, with commentary on stock ideas and commodity trends.
In this webinar, Hedge Fund Manager, Jeffrey Spotts, speaking on specific equities, US stock market, European banks and the Treasury market. Mr. Spotts employs a combination of Demark and O’Neil-type analysis, in a manual-trading style.
(Video Clip from Jeffrey Spotts' 9/14/11 Webinar)
Hedge Fund manager Jeffrey Spotts analyzes Gold, the Dollar, and bonds with a combination of DeMark analysis and relationships between these markets.
Follow Jeffrey Spotts on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spottsontrends
Website: http://spottsontrends.com
Download this full webinar: http://hamzeianalytics.com/educational_webinars.asp
Title:
Hedge Manager Jeffrey Spotts speaks on specific equities, US stock market, European banks and the Treasury market.
Date:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
About Jeffrey Spotts
Following his 12-year tenure at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, Mr. Jeff Spotts launched his first successful fund in 2001. His goal is to generate significant absolute returns in any market. His method includes a combination of analyzing the "sponsorship trend", relative strength position, and fundamental qualities of each company. Influenced by William O'Neil and Tom Demark, Mr. Spotts understands that price action is the most telling factor in the market, and that good timing can be achieved through a confluence of indications.
His audited track record since 1998 has produced a gross return of 1,980%, with no down calendar years, or monthly drawdowns greater than 11%.
Mr. Spotts regularly appears on FoxBusiness, Bloomberg TV and CNBC, with commentary on stock ideas and commodity trends.
In this webinar, Hedge Fund Manager, Jeffrey Spotts, speaking on specific equities, US stock market, European banks and the Treasury market. Mr. Spotts employs a combination of Demark and O'Neil-type analysis, in a manual-trading style.
Hamzei Analytics is in its twelfth year of operations and serves both the professional and institutional traders, while providing custom proprietary analytics to a select group of hedge fund managers.
Fari Hamzei is frequently quoted by Benzinga, StocksNJocks, CNBC, Bloomberg, FoxBusiness and RealMoney. His book, Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today’s Top Traders, published by John Wiley & Sons in October 2006, immediately become a bestseller on Amazon trading books space. Three times, Fari has been the featured advisor on Timer Digest monthly newsletter when each time he was ranked FIRST in the Nation for the previous 12 months among 150 market timers. More recently, in August 2015, he was ranked SECOND in the country, then moved to FIRST place in October 2015. In December, he briefly was ranked SECOND and since first week of January 2016, he has been ranked ONE in the Nation till present.
From 2006 to 2011, once or twice per year, Fari has taught his Proprietary Sentiment Indicators at The Options Institute of CBOE. And, he often shares his methodology on CBOE Options Hub.
Fari is a graduate of Princeton University with a BSE degree in financial engineering, and studied financial derivatives with Options Theory luminaries such Jack Shelton, Ed Thorp, Robert Geske, Richard Roll & Robert Whaley (inventor of original VIX) at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. He was manager of the Operations Analysis Dept and then was promoted to the director of Strategic Planning at Northrop Grumman Corporation's Aircraft Group after being recruited only 5 years earlier from college. He also served for eleven years on the Board of Directors of Electronic Clearing House (ECHO), now an Intuit company (INTU). Read Fari's Recent Posts Steve Shobin, the former Vice Chairman & Chief Investment Strategist for AmeriCap Advisers, LLC, is a veteran of more than four decades on Wall Street where he was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, Inc. and a First Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Shobin was a senior member of the research divisions at both firms. During his tenure, he developed unique methodologies for projecting the long term trends of stocks and industry groups, incorporating various techniques for controlling risk. Mr. Shobin has advised some of the world's largest mutual funds, hedge funds, and institutional investment managers on stock selection and portfolio structuring. Steve has been a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team in 1997, 1998, 1999, and received a #1 ranking in the year 2000 just as he was leaving Lehman to join AmeriCap Advisers.
Jason Goepfert is President of sentimenTrader.com. He has been trading stocks, stock and index options, index futures, currencies and commodities for over 15 years. He holds several securities licenses and has most recently managed the operations of a $3B hedge fund and top-10 online brokerage (Gomez rankings). Jason founded sentimenTrader in 1998, and began a web presence in 2001. Currently, the site has subscribers in all 50 states and 40+ foreign countries. In 2004, Jason was awarded the prestigious Charles H. Dow Award for Excellence in Technical Analysis by Market Technicians Association. Read Jason's Recent PostsJeffrey Spotts, CMT, a contributor to Master Traders, is a hedge fund manager for Prophecy Funds. He has more than 16 years of experience providing portfolio management to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth clients. He began his career in 1989 at Merrill Lynch Private Advisory. He was responsible for over $500 million of client assets under management. In May 2001, he launched Prophecy Asset Management, a technically managed hedge fund catering to institutions, pensions and family offices. He also teaches a behavioral finance segment of a graduate studies course for several colleges.
Read Jeffs's Recent PostsFil Zucchi is the founder and manager of Zebra Investment Advisors LLC, a Virginia registered investment advisor, and Zebra Fund, LLC, a long/short hedge fund. Before founding the Zebra companies, Fil managed individual long/short accounts. Prior to that, he was a bankruptcy and commercial litigation attorney in a Washington, D.C. law firm. Fil was a contributor to theStreet.com Street Insights. Fil is also currently involved in his family’s commercial real estate development and management operations. Read Fil's Recent PostsDavid Miller, a contributor to Master Traders, is the CEO and co-founder of Biotech Stock Research, LLC, publisher of Biotech Monthly. Launched in October 2001, Biotech Monthly combines a monthly newsletter format with alerts on breaking news on more than two dozen development-stage biotechnology companies under coverage. His firm is one of the few independent research firms in that it accepts no money from the companies it covers, does no outside consulting in the biotech space, runs no mutual or hedge fund, and is 100 percent subscription-supported. In addition, David was CEO of a successful technology company and a university professor. Read David's Recent PostsFrank Barbera, CMT, a contributor to Master Traders, is a co-manager of the Caruso Fund, a $35 million hedge fund that seeks to make gains trading precious metals, stocks, and currencies. He began his career in the early 1980s working with John Bollinger, Bill Griffith, and Susan Herrera at Financial News Network in Los Angeles. After FNN, Frank spent 10 years as an on-air market analyst for KWHY-TV in Los Angeles. His first money management position was at the Kavanaugh Fund in Santa Monica, a hedge fund subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. His technical work in gold and gold stocks is considered among the best in the industry. Read Frank's Recent Posts Tim Ord, a contributor to Master Traders, is the president, editor and publisher of The Ord Oracle, established in 1990, which is an electronic advisory newsletter that recommends S&P, NASDAQ, and gold stocks trades. He is frequently listed in the top 10 market timers in the country. Timer Digest ranked Tim No. 5 in gains for the S&P and No. 2 for gold timer in 2004. He has more than 25 years of trading experience and placed fourth nationally in the option division in the United States Trading Championship in 1988. Read Tim's Recent Posts
