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Why the market won't crash before the July 4th fireworks. Timely and actionable options market observations.

In part two of this two-part episode of The Derivative, Noel Smith discusses Convex's main options strategies in detail.

On Real Vision's Real Visionaries, Noel Smith unpacks the four strategies that he and his team consistently employ today.

Used by the largest hedge funds, this strategy could be a victim of its own success due to its popularity and systemic risk to correlation.

In this three minute video, Noel Smith breaks down Convex AM's main strategies.

The 60/40 portfolio has worked well for a long time. But what if stocks and bonds move down at the same time?

Discussion includes the benefits of ensemble investing, the predictability of market volatility, allocating between different strategies dur

Noel Smith returns to Real Vision to dive into his core options trading strategies implemented at Convex Asset Management.

This episode discusses Noel's transition from neuroscience to finance and working in the trading pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Th

By Real Vision To people outside of the asset management world, the most successful hedge funds and their strategies seem like the...

Being short volatility has historically been a good trade, but it is important to mitigate the tail risk of any short volatility position.

Why you should buy VXX puts in the face of an impending volatility crush.

Options, like the tesseract, add dimensions to our otherwise flat and binary investing world of price up, price down. Most investors are...