Big Move Trades Blog

It’s on! The multi-front trade war that neither exporters nor importers wanted is heating up. While the U.S. stock market has shrugged it off so far, agricultural commodities affected by China’s 25% retaliatory import tariffs… Read More

The productivity miracle of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was fueled by crude oil and its derivatives. Diesel made from crude oil powered tractors and combines. Farmers, aided by fertilizers synthesized from the same,… Read More

Option traders know that volatility is perhaps one of the most important factors determining options prices. Extremely volatile markets tend to have expensive options. Extremely quiet markets tend to have cheap options. That’s why some… Read More

We think so. High crude oil prices incentivize the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive in the US and as a substitute for gasoline in Brazil. The US uses its huge corn crop to… Read More

It was bound to happen. Volatility in the commodity sector is starting to ramp up. And while the increase isn’t exactly across the board, volatility in most of the markets we’ve identified as being abnormally… Read More

Silver bulls finally have something to cheer about. After months of lagging its richer cousin, silver is making a move on gold. This is good news for both metals should it continue. Silver nearly always… Read More

Welcome to Crypto World! Crypto World is a universe defined and dominated by the Internet, the cloud and millions of computer algorithms. Find your place in a cyber space where pieces of code can be… Read More

The key to finding “alpha” (performance above and beyond major averages) is to find an asset class that is undervalued, get long that asset class and wait. That can be a problem in an environment… Read More

Humans are hard-wired to make predictions about the future. It is one of the mechanisms that help us learn. These predictions are often based on events in the past. For example, a child that has… Read More