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Weekend Recap: How to Trade the Market this Upcoming Week

As I am writing this, the S&P 500 is down 20 points in the pre-market, looking to extend its losses from Friday. In order to navigate this weeks markets, I am going to lay out a few scenarios that I see happening tomorrow and how to play each. While it is hard to make a prediction for how long the selling will last, given that this is such a shock to markets and we have only seen one day of trading post Brexit, I will give a few trades that I will be watching, both short and longer term.

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VIX Slapped

The Fix is In?   Better yet the VIX is in?  I covered this topic over three years ago:  The FIX is IN

This mornings massive Spike off the morning lows brought with it such  a vigor and a confidence that had me scanning for news.  Was there another Russian Jet shot down?  That spiked stock futures.  Had a another Ebola patient toured NYC bowling halls and night clubs.  Perhaps a  thimble size country had decided, without warning, to take 30% of its residents savings?  

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