Volume Weighted Average Price

Volume Weighted Average Price

What is Volume Weighted Average Price? Simple moving average calculations assign an equal weight to trade prices at constant time intervals. Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) is an average price calculation that assigns value to trade volume rather than trade time....
Morning Thoughts – Feb 16

Morning Thoughts – Feb 16

Energies – The crude oil inventory figure yesterday was once again deemed to be price-negative, yet once again futures mostly shrugged off this sentiment.  I think we have to understand part of the “problem” leading to these surging inventory levels is a big...
Morning Thoughts – Feb 15

Morning Thoughts – Feb 15

Livestock – Cattle futures seemingly found support around recent lows and shot higher yesterday.  It also appears that the beef pipeline is getting a bit more cleaned up and demand could be better going forward.  Keep in mind Monday’s kill will be slightly...
Morning Thoughts – Feb 14

Morning Thoughts – Feb 14

Grains – Sifting through yesterday’s export inspections details I found a pretty sizeable revision higher in last week’s wheat inspections to China.  Considering our conversation from the past few days I found this pretty interesting.  MYTD all wheat export...

Demystifying Options

Welcome to the Demystifying Options Series The series will be informative, educational, and may even lead you to trading options. I will be using insurance analogies in order to help with relaying the concepts. The articles in this Demystifying Options series will be...