Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial ...

After stocks got pummeled once again on weaker-than-expected monthly employment numbers, flashbacks to Aug. 2 and Aug. 5 immediately came to mind. In this period, the S&P 500 Index (SPX -- 5,408.42) ...

A hedge fund with shares in both Delta and United sent a letter to Delta urging the two airlines to merge, but Delta immediately tried to quash the speculation that a deal is in the offing or has even ...

I enjoy your columns and I learn a lot from them, but this one … about hedging through the summer left me with more questions than answers. … Two in particular are how can I apply this to individual ...

In last week’s commentary, I cautioned that stocks stiff faced delta-hedging risk, whereby sellers of portfolio insurance, or put options on the index and exchange-traded fund (ETF) options, are ...

As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, hedge funds delivered their best returns in a decade. Most investors who decided to stick with hedge funds after a rough 2018 ...

Hedge funds had their most robust first-half return since 2009, led by event-driven, long/ short equities and distressed debt. However, long/ short equity funds started to lose traction moving into ...