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Over the past few years the world has grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil. Integrated circuits, or chips, are both difficult and costly to produce. The global economies’ dependance on just a handful of ...

Bear Market Duration And Depth The average and median bear market lasts around a year and a half. Certain bear markets have been very brief, for example, the recession of 1990-91 only led to a short, shallow, stock market decline. ...

Understanding Market Bottoms Investors seek to buy financial markets near a market bottom. However, since market environments rhyme instead of repeating, investors are generally paralyzed by fear as markets decline. It’s difficult to know ...

Convertible Bonds and convertible arbitrage were high demand Hedge Fund strategies in the 1990’s up through the financial crisis. The confluence of GFC and the subsequent decade plus of QE was devastating for convertible strategies for two ...

The Russell Rebalance The 2022 Russell Rebalance was a reminder of the risks of the “crowded trade”. Index Rebalance is a popular arbitrage strategy. Historically, stocks scheduled to be added or deleted from an index are projected weeks ...

Rho risk measures a derivative’s sensitivity to interest rate changes. This Greek risk was relatively dampened in the recent low rate environment but can never be ignored. Similar to Vega, interest rate changes impact longer-term ...

Equity options straddles can be used to estimate the underlying move for events captured by the respective expiration. The classic Black-Scholes model requires five input variables: the strike price of an option, the current stock price, ...