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 ...

MBS tailwinds are priced in, and risk-adjusted returns lag AAA CLO ETFs with higher yield and less duration risk.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...