James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Cierra Murry is an expert in banking, credit cards, investing, loans, mortgages, and real estate. She is a ...

Duration is the primary measure of interest rate sensitivity — it is the percentage change in price for a 1% change in interest rates. However, practitioners also look at convexity, which is the ...

Market sentiment can be challenging to quantify, but financial analysts and traders have a powerful tool to help them gauge it: CME Group’s Volatility Index, or CVOL. This index is particularly useful ...

Bonds are popular fixed income investment instruments and are often regarded as bearing relatively low-risk burdens. While bonds are less volatile than other investments, they are not risk-free, ...

As bond yields rise and fall past certain levels, there are episodes of highly technical yet increasingly familiar flows that can accelerate moves in either direction. Analysts and traders use terms ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Convexity, which measures interest rate sensitivity and drives the risk and return profiles of fixed income products, is an important concept that investors can utilize to boost total return and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every so often Chris Cole, of Artemis Capital, perhaps one of the deepest and most provocative thinkers in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Negative convexity is something which has been mentioned on this blog before. It sounds dramatic, not to ...

CVOL is a suite of implied volatility indices measuring 30-day forward volatility across all option strike prices of key futures markets. It’s based on a simple variance methodology to measure the ...