SpotGamma Founder, Brent Kochuba, discusses his trading experience during the August 2015 market crash when the market went limit down. Brent saw first hand why you need to be careful being short convexity, and how margin rates are subject to rapid change.
Market Analysis
Will The Fed Push Stocks Over The Edge Next Week?
The following is a guest post courtesy of Michael Kramer of Mott Capital Management. Hard Landing Worries Are Driving Volatility Volatility in the market has been high as traders and investors look to hedge risks associated with the Fed and the potential for an economic slowdown. The concerns seemed to evolve, starting with inflation and growth worries. Now […]
SpotGamma Discusses Using Options Levels for Futures Trading | Live with NinjaTrader
Presented by the NinjaTrader Ecosystem, Trader’s Workshop is dedicated to serving and developing real futures traders. Brent Kochuba discusses the impact that the options market has on futures trading and why paying attention to options should be in every future’s trader’s toolkit.
Brent & Imran Talk VIXexp + OPEX Live
Brent is joined by Imran Lakha of Options Insight to discuss the positioning around May OPEX. Below is a transcript that is automatically recorded – please forgive any typos. SUMMARY KEYWORDSvix, market, rally, s&p, crypto, position, calls, bit, vol, trade, point, equities, buying, options, put, stocks,people, big, week, shortSPEAKERSImran, Brent Brent 00:00They were flagging is […]
Introducing SIV: The SpotGamma Implied Volatility Index
A better way to estimate volatility through a Gamma Lens Here at SpotGamma, our extensive research and testing has led us to develop an improved method for forecasting market volatility. Our new proprietary model, called the SpotGamma Implied Volatility (SIV) Index, is based on our analytics around S&P 500 Gamma activity and related-movements in the […]
🖐💎🤚 The DIAMOND HANDS Movie Premiere 🖐💎🤚
This Sunday at 10PM ET on MSNBC “Diamond Hands – The Legend of WallStreetBets” premieres. SpotGamma is extremely excited that our Founder, Brent Kochuba, was part of this production. If you miss the MSNBC premiere you will still be able to catch the documentary streaming on Peacock. It was in May of ’20 that NBC […]
SpotGamma on TastyTrade LIVE
Brent from SpotGamma joined Victor Jones and Chris Vecchio to talk about the big selloff in markets on Thursday.
Elon Musk’s Margin Call? The TWTR Loan.
TSLA Shares were down 12% yesterday – one of its largest 1 days selloffs ever. While the overall market was down too, the pressure on TSLA was exceptional. Why? In an SEC filing loan terms were announced for Elon’s TWTR takeover bid. It seems Elon is borrowing up to $12.5 billion, and using TSLA stock […]
Trading Stock Using Equity Hub and HIRO
The following is a guest post from Doug Pless. When I plan to trade stocks for the day, I begin my morning preparation by opening my watchlist in Equity Hub. I look at the Key Gamma Strike, Hedge Wall, and other metrics and compare the values with the previous values for the last five days. […]
The Fed Meeting May Spark The Next Stock Market Rally
The following is a guest post courtesy of Michael Kramer of Mott Capital Management. Buy the Fed meeting. Sell the Fed minutes. It may be the name of the game for the stock market. At least since the start of 2022, the minutes have been a cause of concern for markets, while the FOMC meetings […]
