I’d like to share with you a 45-minute interview of me done by Kirk Du Plessis and his excellent Option Alpha podcast. There were a number of topics discussed based on my new book Buy The Fear, Sell The Greed. I thought Kirk did a great job getting inside the book which quantitatively shows you where…    [Read More] 

Dear Connors Research Traders Journal Subscriber: Since the early 1990’s when the VIX was launched, traders and researchers have debated whether or not the VIX predicted the direction on the S&P. We’ve shown in numerous studies, both on a short-term basis to as long as a 12-month basis that when done correctly it does.  While we were doing new VIX research recently, we…    [Read More] 

Dear Connors Research Traders Journal Subscriber: Lessons learned from a hedge fund which has average over 40% a year for 20 years. Here is a fascinating article from Institutional Investor magazine on Joseph Edelman, a hedge fund manager who has achieved over 30% annual returns after fees for two decades. Edelman runs Perspective Advisors, a…    [Read More]