To The Moon

A year after being shaken awake by an ultra-aggressive Federal Reserve, the stock market has gone back to sleep. Analysts trying to explain how it happened say dynamics in derivatives trading may be playing a role.While cooling inflation and better-than-feared earnings have helped promote calm in a market less vulnerable to valuation shocks after last year’s declines, fresh research is being published almost daily into how newly popular varieties of stock options act as forces for and against equity volatility.The latest to weigh in are strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co., who argue that the interplay of zero-day stock options — fast-expiring contracts whose use exploded in the last year — and more conventional longer-dated ones is combining to dampen big and decisive moves in the broa

Under SEC regulations, fund managers with assets under management exceeding $100 million are required to file a document known as "Form 13F" within 45 days of each quarter's end, disclosing their holdings in stocks and bonds.Recently, major institutions have released their position data. Based on the 13F holdings data, do you know which stocks the institutions purchased in Q1?The following chart presents the top 20 holdings of institutional investors:Ticker# Shareholding institutions#Institutions QoQ (%)Market value of institutional holdings ($M) $Microsoft(MSFT)$ 3,8000.81,009,842.09 $Apple(AAPL)$ 3,7190.46978,148.19 $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ 3,328-0.3424,312.75

Judging by recent options moves, the May sell charm may be directed not only at market trends but also institutional orders.The moves in individual stock options in recent days have not been very guiding, giving me the feeling that I went to the lake to switch positions and got nothing. Not until yesterday did a fish bite the hook, copy up to see, this fish is really very strange:sell $KWEB 20230915 28.0 CALL$An institution sold the call of KWEB option with an exercise price of 28, the expiration date is September 15, and the total amount of the order is 2.54 million. This is a standard one leg sell call large order, traders see KWEB below $28 through September 15th, or a sustained sideways movement that

Under normal circumstances, the trend of stock market determines the direction of the individual stock. To be more specific, 3 of the 4 stocks follow the direction of the market. In addition, the trend of the broad index is also consistent. For example, if small-cap stocks rise, the Nasdaq and larger-cap stocks also rise.With this in mind, the U.S. stock market in 2023 is very special, with serious differentiation. Most major stock indexes are still up year-to-date, but 60% of stocks are trading below their 200-day moving average. $iShares Russell 2000 ETF(IWM)$ fell 0.5%, while the $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ rose 8% over the same period, while the tech-heavy $In