In an interview with Business Insider, Schultz spoke about how to play the ongoing stock market rotation, how he sees Amazon affecting its competitors, the impact of the Fed's upcoming balance sheet unwinding and the near -
record low volatility environment.
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Current Low Volatility Environment With all of the volatile political events happening domestically and internationally, the low market volatility over the past few years has -LSB-...]
«With the futures market it's the easiest way to express a view on where you think rates are going to go, especially in
a low volatility environment.»
Commodities are little changed in today's
low volatility environment, with gold hovering around the $ 1275 level, while oil is trading near $ 47.50 per barrel after the decline of the past few sessions with the mixed US inventory and [production data causing some volatility.
In this blog, we analyze how the mechanics of a VIX futures index,
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Correlation relates to the fact that
a low volatility environment encourages investors to move into riskier assets to get decent returns on their investments.
One might be tempted to think that this kind of
low volatility environment isn't favorable for active fixed income strategies of the kind that we outlined in March 2017; if volatility creates opportunity, one could ask whether there has even been enough of an opportunity set available.
As I've discussed in previous blogs, tight spreads and benign credit conditions support
a low volatility environment, as illustrated below.
As I've discussed in previous blogs, tight spreads and benign credit conditions support
a low volatility environment, as illustrated below.
This low volatility environment, however, is nothing new.
However, the opposite does not always hold true in
a low volatility environment, as stocks may either rise or fall.
When above this value, the market is in high volatility environment and when it is below it is in
a low volatility environment.
In
a low volatility environment the convergence is fast.
The low volatility environment of the past few years has been accompanied by strong asset flows to passive strategies.
Correlation relates to the fact that
a low volatility environment encourages investors to move into riskier assets to get decent returns on their investments.
Looking ahead, traders are still waiting for the next big market catalyst to determine direction but it looks like
the low volatility environment might be here to stay as the lower volumes in China are influencing activity.