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We’re Back!! Talking Trend, Miami, and Volatility with Nasdaq’s Kevin Davitt

The Derivative

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Optional and Proactive in the US Equity Markets

The Federal Reserve's decision in 2021 to keep short term interest rates bounded at roughly zero despite a pickup in prices and they're continuing to buy mortgage back securities until Q1 of 2022. The Fed was anything but proactive and that played out by 75 basis point moves at four consecutive meetings which historically speaking is kind of unprecedented. I think about my my stone age days on the trading floor and situations where I was forced to be reactive and generally speaking they were not good situations. When I'm proactive about a risk management plan generally speaking I'm using options and things tend to work out better that way.

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