I’m hopeful that longer-term trends should soon establish themselves, as markets always eventually do enter long-term trending stages.

It will likely take awhile for the global economy to regain its momentum.

We'll use a more conventional long/short equity approach in our other portfolio.

I now hedge VXX with a VXZ position or solely shorting VXZ, depending on the VIX term structure.

Investing is a zero sum game and a poker lesson applies to short-term trading: if you don't know who the sucker is at the table, it is probably you.

As this model aims to capture trends and needs to avoid invoking the pattern day trader rule, it is difficult for the model to perform well in choppy markets as 2011 was.

It's all about Europe getting its act together and corporate earnings.