Patrick Hennessy, CMT Head Trader I learned a long time ago as a young broker on Wall Street that when looking at a potential… Read More »Is Selling Options Still Worth the Risk?

by Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Cecile Vannucci January 10, 2018, 4:00 AM MST Click Here to read on Bloomberg’s website. It made for quite a chart.… Read More »Is the VIX Being Gamed? A Sudden Swoon Has Traders Talking Again

by Cecile VannucciFebruary 8, 2017, 3:17 AM MST February 8, 2017, 6:39 AM MSTClick Here to read on Bloomberg’s website. Here’s another sign that beneath… Read More »Low VIX Masks Insurance Markup Options Traders Are Paying

by Dominick Paoloni, CIMA® IPS Strategic Capital published a white paper on a systematic approach to low cost tail risk hedging through the use of… Read More »A Study in Portfolio Diversification Using VIX Options

Asset allocators and portfolio managers (PM) have had many sleepless nights in 2015 with the global markets being very volatile. The S&P 500 has been… Read More »Low Cost Hedging Strategies in a Volatile Market

By: Yakob Peterseil from Structured Products Magazine Like someone who believes that what he is saying should be plainly obvious to all, Dominick Paoloni rattles… Read More »West Coast Boutique Crafts Custom Structured Products

    May 22, 2014 By: Yakob Peterseil Structured Products Magazine “It was too good to be true. I couldn’t sell them quick enough,” Dominick… Read More »New Annuities are Structured Products in All but Name

By: Libby Dubick Dubick & Associates for OIC Advisor Publications “We just got audited,” said Dominick Paoloni, President of IPS Strategic Capital, in Denver, Colorado.… Read More »Advisor’s Epiphany Leads to Options

By: Dominick Paoloni, CIMA®   The popularity of structured investing is slowly moving its way through the financial community mainstream. Structured investing is a sophisticated… Read More »Custom Structured Investments: How to Combat the Devil in the Details