Sentences with phrase «directional bets»

In my experience, many of the smartest traders use options to make directional bets on stocks and indexes.

We estimate that without directional bets on commodities and currency, that return would have declined to 2.6 %.

The manager gets no credit (or blame) for directional bets that are represented by equivalent positions in the reference portfolio.

This was not a covered call, but rather a straight directional bet using call options.

These strategies are not designed to be market neutral — they take directional bets, being either long or short the stock market at any time.

J.P. Morgan does not make directional bets on commodity prices and executes trades only on behalf of clients.

Not only do these investors «almost never sell,» but they also refrain from making large directional bets, nor do they overreact to market events, he said.

Still due to the limited time until March 2015, it's obvious that the option trade was a bold, directional bet expressing the view that Gold might appreciate up to $ 130 - $ 135.

If you want to make a short - term directional bet on the gold miners index then NUGT may be for you.

Any sort of directional bet could go wrong, and more often than bonds that fit the idea of replicating the index parameters, but are special in ways that the index does not appreciate.

Finally, in the traditional approach the manager is given credit for generating alpha by making directional bets in addition to skillfully selecting securities.

(This might not be true for a macro-style manager who is more concerned with directional bets than with selections within an asset class.)

Typically, this is an indication that the fund manager did not make any major directional bets that significantly departed from the fund's holdings in the immediately preceding time window.

This is not a covered call trade, it is merely a large directional bet that DAL will close above $ 51.85 (strike + cost of call option) before May 20 (expiration):

Most managed futures strategies aren't hedging anything — they are making a directional bet on the performance of an asset class.

Our methodology effectively splits the traditional alpha resulting from active management into two parts: the theme picking part (also called a directional bet) and the individual security selection part.

Straddles do not reflect a directional bet on future price movements, but instead are a bet on future volatility.

For example, if you want to make a directional bet which rewards you with 2x the S&P 500's return from January 1, 2013 to some point in the future, margin would be much better than the 2x daily levered fund.