Jim Colburn

Here is a chart based on implied volatility, WTI crude, second nearby, at the money option... Front month options (Jan) settled at 25.0 on Friday down

From The Wall Street Journal’s The Daily Shot... China’s economy is still growing:

Here are the Atlanta and NY Feds’ dueling Nowcasts:

Here is a snapshot of yesterday’s option volume... Note that open interest in puts climbed much more than calls... And, while we don’t know for sure,

Here is the EIA: “In September 2019, the United States exported 89,000 barrels per day (b/d) more petroleum (crude oil and petroleum products) than

Volume up, volatility down... Here is a snapshot from the CME’s Most Active Strike tool, here...  Implied vol for Jan settled at 328, -2.8 while Feb

Ben Carlson, from A Wealth of Common Sense, has a nice piece on where stock market returns have come from by decade:

Sarah MacFarlane, Wall Street Journal, discusses the decline of Brent oil production while the benchmark lives on, here... ”The world’s most famous