The stock market has seen a return of volatility in September. Investors are scambling to figure out if the markets are going back to their all-time highs or collapsing lower. The simple answer? This is chop to take your hard earned money. It is mostly games by the institutions, being headed by top hedge fund managers that want to make money after coming back to work from vacation over the summer and an end to the 3rd quarter.
1. It Is Options Expiration Week
Understand that it is options expiration and the return to volatility gives institutions an easy way to take money from investors and pad their bottom line. Remember, the summer was dead so they are smelling blood (easy money) in the water. Let me explain how this works. Institutions sell a majority of options (puts/calls) to investors.
- Published: 19 September 2016
- Written by verifiedInvesting