Running on Goldilocks

Hello All,

It’s been a fairly quiet week in regard to news flow / economic data, but initially to kick off the week, indices quickly declined following the Ukraine drone attack on Russia over the weekend which brought out a tad bit of geopolitical vol, but nevertheless, that decline thus far has marked the low of the week & following todays good JOLTs report, we saw outperformance of small-caps which IWM as of now is the best performing of the indices, currently +155bps whereas the Dow has been the laggard of the week although still sits higher by 55bps.

About a month back, we wrote about hard assets & the structural framework behind hard assets given recent events & future outlook along with some historical perspective as well… you can check it out below for those whom may have missed.

We also published the follow up educational piece which has been highly requested and majority of the topics covered were all suggested by you all, so I hope you find good benefit.

For those who may have missed, a link to Educational Piece Part: Deux can be found here.

For those who may have missed the first educational piece, I included the range of topics covered below along with a link to the piece for those who would like to go back and read:

- General background / knowledge on all option strategies

- In-depth talk on risk / reversals & how to go about expressing / utilizing them

- Options Structuring

- When to used naked calls / puts vs. spreads

- Choosing expiration dates

- Identifying key pivots / supports / resistance zones

- General briefing on stock gaps

- What to look for in regards to fundamentals

- Implementing fundamental / macro / technicals into a trade

- Hedging

- Creating risk/reward setups

- Taking profits / managing losses

- Overall Process

- Book recommendations

A link to the first educational write-up can be found here.