by Christian Fromhertz | Feb 21, 2016 | Market Posts
USMV (iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility ETF) traded +19M shares on Friday vs average volume of just 1.7M shares. Was this typical of a large buyer present in the ETF? Absolutely. Outstanding shares of the fund increased by 12M shares or $500M in market value. Take a...
by Christian Fromhertz | Feb 20, 2016 | Market Posts, Post Types, Standard Posts
On Friday, GLD (SPDR Gold Shares) & IAU (iShares Gold Trust) added a combined $882M in assets with GLD seeing more inflows than any other ETF. In addition, option call buying continues to be heavy. GLD saw 14k opening call buyers while seeing only 2k opening put...
by Christian Fromhertz | Feb 14, 2016 | Market Posts
Two weeks ago there was a colossal unwind of a DWTI (VelocityShares Daily 3x Inverse Crude ETN) long on 2/1/16 of $552M (reported by zerohedge.com on 2/12). This unwind reduced the fund size of DTWI by more than half. Keep in mind that the fund is 3x Inverse Crude...
