Analyses
Microsoft - a tech titan (BUY - 150)
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. The company’s Productivity and Busin...
Nasdaq - exchanges IV (BUY - 110)
Nasdaq, Inc. provides trading, clearing, marketplace technology, regulatory, securities listing, information, and public and private company servi...
CBOE Global Markets - exchanges III (BUY - 130*)
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is the largest U.S. options exchange with annual tradin...
Intercontinental exchange - exchanges II (BUY - 100)
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. operates regulated exchanges, clearing houses, and listings venues for commodity, financial, fixed income, and equ...
CME Group - exchanges I (BUY - 240)
CME Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It offe...
S&P & Moody's - 2 of the 3 biggest rating agencies (BUY / SP- 270/ M- 240)
The world's three biggest rating agencies are; Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch. These three rating agencies together have a marketshare of...
Boeing & Airbus duopoly (BUY / B - 350 / A - 150)
The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telec...
Mastercard & Visa - a longterm trade (BUY/ M - 300/ V - 200)
MasterCard and Visa are the two predominant companies with a duopoly in the debit-card space at a global level.
165.3 + 98.3 + 90.2 + 15= 368.8 bil...
Swedbank - an asymmetric trade (BUY - 190)
Swedbank AB, is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services....
Currency valuation via export orientation and foreign trade
Currencies are one of the most difficult asset classes when it comes to performing fundamental analysis. Several different factors affect their wor...
ViX as a market gauge of direction - II
In our previous post we introduced the concept of using the ViX as a market gauge, and its practical use in terms of setting volatility based stop-...
ViX as a market gauge of direction - I
A statistical strategy I've been working on.
In this case it is based on looking at the volatility of SP500 options, 30 days ahead of time. (ViX)T...