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Bill's Latest Posts

Chart of the Week: RUT vs. DJIA

Chart of the Week: Updated Nonfarm Payrolls and Unemployment Rate

VIX Price Channel Chart

Annotated VIX Downtrend Symmetry Channel

VIX Correlation with "VIX Index" Google Searches

Chart of the Week: Total Put to Call Ratio

Contest Follow-Up: Charting 101

Win a Free Year of 'Expiring Monthly' Newsletter

Nonfarm Payrolls Before and After Recessions

Two Must-Reads for Volatility Aficionados

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Breaking News

IMF paints grim picture of fiscal tightening ...
11:31 PM  03/20/10

IADB eyes $80 billion capital increase to fil...
11:18 PM  03/20/10

Dow's eight-day win streak comes to an end Fr...
3:09 PM  03/19/10

Fed must identify banks that needed bailout f...
12:31 PM  03/19/10

Don't Trust Organic Labels...Yet
10:44 PM  03/20/10

Buying Health Care Now
12:20 PM  03/20/10

If Tiger Woods Plays Well, Retailers Will Smi...
10:50 PM  03/20/10

Fundamentally: Should Investors Celebrate Yea...
10:21 PM  03/20/10

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Biography

Bill is a private investor whose research and trading interests focus on volatility, market sentiment, technical analysis, and ETFs. He also authors the VIX and More blog and an investment newsletter from just north of San Francisco. His first book, Trading with the VIX, is scheduled to be published by Wiley in 2009.

Prior to becoming a full-time investor, Bill was a business strategy consultant for two decades and advised clients across a broad range of industries on issues such as strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and metrics. When not trading or blogging, he can often be found running, hiking, and kayaking in Northern California.

Bill has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon.

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