Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The VIX (officially, the CBOE Volatility Index) closed the day before this writing at 13.77 and as of this writing, is down even further, to 13.39. It’s not an all-time low, but the index closed ...

FBCG offers investors exposure to blue chip U.S. large cap growth equities. The fund's gross expense ratio of 0.60% is significantly higher than comparable index ETFs and somewhat higher than ...

Fundamentally, trading is about analyzing the supply and demand of a security (asset which can be traded), such as stocks, commodities, or Forex pairs. A trader then makes decisions to purchase or ...

Significant volatility across the commodities complex has created relative opportunities for hedge funds. A multiyear bear market in commodities has led investors to explore more active opportunities ...

This strategy has had a good track record. During the trailing 15- and 10-year periods through March 2016, this fund's underlying index generated about 400 basis points of annualized outperformance ...

Solid U.S. equity and gold returns with international, small caps, and bonds weaker Stronger performance in equity-only volatility-controlled strategies vs. multi-asset Two-thirds of all indices ...

The small-cap arena isn't the most obvious place to look for low-volatility stocks. Small-cap stocks tend to be more volatile than their larger counterparts, so a small-cap low-volatility strategy may ...