Last week was historic from a number of standpoint. Not only did the Dow Jones Industrial Average have a never before string of 300 point down moves, and the S&P 500 index posted its largest loss since the once thought infallible Long Term Capital Management team of geniuses finally found gravity in 1998. But it was the recent move in volatility, as measured by the VIX Index, that caught the eye of Goldman Sachs analysts.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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