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Injuries, yes, are common in our sport and all other sports. Listen as we sit down and discuss a few common injuries we have seen in BXM and how to get your rider to bounce back into the sport. We have some fun ideas to keep them interested in BMX and around their BMX friends.Don't forget to support 110% nutrition and use code Momstalk for a discount at checkout.
Sometimes you're just born with it. At least that's how it feels with the current G.O.A.T. of BMX lifestyle, Nigel Sylvester. Nigel was just a toddler on his little red tricycle when he was drifting around cones set up as race course by his cousin on his driveway. Admiring and modeling the great Dave Mirra growing up, Sylvester went pro at age 18 and was recruited by Mirra to rep his team. Flashforward 18 years later and Sylvester is still going strong but has expanded his brand into events, fashion, art, books and more. Nigel Sylvester is the new BXM icon for young up-in-comers to model. He's a great example of someone in constant pursuit of dreams, riding all around the world, while also keeping it real with his roots deeply planted in Queens NY. Support the show
Connor Fields is a three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, a Pan American Games Gold Medalist, winner of the Red Bull Revolution and he's the first American to win an Olympic BMX Gold medal. He turned pro at age of 15 and at 17-years-old, Connor became the youngest rider to ever podium a BMX World Cup. Connor is celebrated in the BMX and cycling community at-large as one of the ALL-TIME greats to ever race on two wheels. In the semi-finals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, on the brink of battling it out for another Olympic podium, Connor went down in a terrible crash, sustaining a traumatic brain injury that would leave him fighting for his life in a Tokyo hospital. Still fresh off the announcement of his retirement from professional racing, Connor shares stories from his historic career and we dive deep into the mindset that helped him go from “choking” at the London Olympics to “clutch” in Rio and beyond, which allowed him to become one of the most dominant BXM riders in the history of the sport. We discuss how he bounced forward from his traumatic brain injury, parenting young athletes, competing at the highest level, coaching, and Connor's future as a presenter, broadcaster and entrepreneur.
Không chỉ gần 300 chuyến xe khách liên tỉnh "biến mất” , mà sản lượng vận tải của Bến xe Miền Đông (BXMĐ) mới cũng sụt đi khoảng 2.500 hành khách so với dự kiến, chỉ sau 2 tuần tiếp nhận thêm 79 tuyến từ bến cũ về đây.
Welcome to Fiction Made for Fans Theatre, the show where we read the best, the worst and flat-out bizarre fan fictions on the internet for your amusement. On our debut episode we reenact the infamous vampire Harry Potter fan fiction known simply as My Immortal. Trigger warnings for suicide, self-harm, homophobia, poor English and over acting. To read this wonderful piece check it out here https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829556/2/My-Immortal?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=aiQs4EMY2JLSbQvLswAlq5Ssq2kM5O9Ru6EBOMx.BXM-1638209978-0-gaNycGzNChE
This is a short excerpt from my interview with Josh Perry, former professional BXM rider who has survived multiple brain tumors, and our mutual appreciation for Lance Armstrong, who also overcame brain tumors. It's definitely a "Grey Matter", which is the name of Josh's podcast, but one we both feel strongly about! Enjoy!Find Josh at-https://www.joshperrybmx.com/ (Yes, you need to type it all out or click this link)All socials- @Josh Perry BMX
Former manager Tom Kelly stops by "Deep Cuts with the Minnesota Twins" to help us preview the start of Spring Training. Trevor Plouffe is our featured guest this week in an entertaining conversation covering a myriad of topics. Plouffe discusses being a dad, college vs. pro ball, BXM biking, a high school science fair project, a previous career as a pool boy and evacuating his home this off-season. Finally, test your knowledge in this week's #ScoutsHonor.
Volatility Review: A review of the week from a volatility perspective. Volatility continues through earnings season - Disney and Tesla hit hard. VIX Cash: 14.13 - Some juice coming back into the balloon. VIX Futures: 12.16 - not as controversial as main VIX settlement. VIX Options: Decent volume week - 770k contracts Monday. Total 7.95m (5.89m Calls, 2.05m Puts). Crude Oil: WTI term structure - West Texas Intermediate is heading for its biggest monthly fall this year. Gold: A prominent gold forecaster predicts the metal will drop to a mere $350 an ounce, a level unseen since 2003. Gold Implied Vol: 12.1% as of July 14, 2015 and up to 18.8% on July 21, 2015 Volatility Voicemail: listener questions and comments Question from Antimony - Question for the Vol Squad. Have you had a chance to look over the list of latest index products launched by the CBOE? Any contenders? Personally I think the weekly revamps of put and BXM have promise, along with the 30-delta BXM. Question from Tommy Hendricks - What is your take on weekly VIX Futures so far? Hit or miss? Crystal Ball: Our future vol predictions.
Volatility Review: A review of the week from a volatility perspective. Volatility continues through earnings season - Disney and Tesla hit hard. VIX Cash: 14.13 - Some juice coming back into the balloon. VIX Futures: 12.16 - not as controversial as main VIX settlement. VIX Options: Decent volume week - 770k contracts Monday. Total 7.95m (5.89m Calls, 2.05m Puts). Crude Oil: WTI term structure - West Texas Intermediate is heading for its biggest monthly fall this year. Gold: A prominent gold forecaster predicts the metal will drop to a mere $350 an ounce, a level unseen since 2003. Gold Implied Vol: 12.1% as of July 14, 2015 and up to 18.8% on July 21, 2015 Volatility Voicemail: listener questions and comments Question from Antimony - Question for the Vol Squad. Have you had a chance to look over the list of latest index products launched by the CBOE? Any contenders? Personally I think the weekly revamps of put and BXM have promise, along with the 30-delta BXM. Question from Tommy Hendricks - What is your take on weekly VIX Futures so far? Hit or miss? Crystal Ball: Our future vol predictions.
The Buzz: News out of China: OIC, Shanghai Stock Exchange content licensing agreement. Pensions seek bond diversification. Report: UK pensions miss out on returns. Chuck likes index funds. Retail investors not afraid of equity markets. Low VIX: what does it mean for volatility? Listener Mail: Your comments and questions Question from Neil Staffenberg: thank you for this program. It is very informative. I've heard you mention SMAs on this program in the past. I'm not familiar with this term. Can you explain what you are referring to and the significance it has for the advisor community. Question from Avow: what do the hosts think of recent claims from advisor-centric firms like Charles Schwab that the market is rigged against individual investors? Should I be instructing my advisor to move me to cash? Is purchasing a put sufficient protection to my broad portfolio or are the options market rigged against me as well? Question from Tim Nichols, Fredericksburg, VA: can you provide an overview of the CBOE put write index. The BXM has been discussed widely but I haven't come across much discussion or analysis on this sister product. From all the research I've encountered the product appears to perform quite well. It seems that structured products that include automation are the preferred tools for many financial advisors and planners. Would the panel recommend the put write index as a viable alternative for advisors looking to add options to their portfolio without the hassle of writing the options themselves?
Advisors Option 19: Pension Problems and PUT Writes The Buzz: News out of China: OIC, Shanghai Stock Exchange content licensing agreement. Pensions seek bond diversification. Report: UK pensions miss out on returns. Chuck likes index funds. Retail investors not afraid of equity markets. Low VIX: what does it mean for volatility? Listener Mail: Your comments and questions · Question from Neil Staffenberg: thank you for this program. It is very informative. I've heard you mention SMAs on this program in the past. I'm not familiar with this term. Can you explain what you are referring to and the significance it has for the advisor community. · Question from Avow: what do the hosts think of recent claims from advisor-centric firms like Charles Schwab that the market is rigged against individual investors? Should i be instructing my advisor to move me to cash? Is purchasing a put sufficient protection to my broad portfolio or are the options market rigged against me as well? · Question from Tim Nichols, Fredericksburg, VA - can you provide an overview of the CBOE put write index. The BXM has been discussed widely but i haven't come across much discussion or analysis on this sister product. From all the research I've encountered the product appears to perform quite well. It seems that structured products that include automation are the preferred tools for many financial advisors and planners. Would the panel recommend the put write index as a viable alternative for advisors looking to add options to their portfolio without the hassle of writing the options themselves?
The Buzz: An overview of the upcoming Options Industry Conference. What topics are discussed at the conference? Who attends? Is there any benefit for advisors? Listener Mail Extravaganza: The Advisors Options mail bag is filling up, so we are going to tackle as many as possible this episode: Question from Neal Santos. I am in the market for a new advisor and your program has awakened me to the benefits of using options. What sort of licensing should I look for in an advisor to make sure he is qualified to handle options investments? Is there a specific options exam offered by the exchanges or perhaps OCC that I should look for? Thanks for the show. Question from J. Andrews, Philadelphia, PA. I have multiple clients with retirement assets in broad based equity portfolios. I have already done the correlation work and calculated how many SPX and SPY puts it would require to both fully and partially hedge the positions. My initial thought is to utilize SPX contracts as the larger size will reduce the number of contracts and reduce the overall commissions. But I have serious concerns regarding slippage in the SPX. I fear that over the long-term the dramatic difference in the bid-ask spread of the two products will result in lower returns for my clients in the SPX. One or two bad fills is all it would take to wipe out several years' worth of commission savings. Are these fears warranted? Question from Darren. Hi, does OIC have any option alert services? Thanks and I truly enjoy the program. Question from Andrea Tillwell. I would be interested in crafting a custom overlay to my retirement portfolio. Does Swan offer a bespoke service to individual investors or only to institutions? Question from Hudson Trader. I am starting a new RIA with a focus on covered calls. What firms do the best job handling options focused funds - tools, understanding, etc? Question from A_Firm. My clients are pushing for more commodity and volatility exposure in their portfolios. I am comfortable with options but have not traded many futures, so I am looking at ETF options, particularly SLV, GLD, VXX, USO and UNG. What is your view on these products from an options perspective? Do they offer suitable depth and liquidity for clients looking for commodity exposure? Question from TBard. You have discussed leveraged ETFs in the past but have not touched on structured products. This to me is the more interesting of the two product categories for a busy advisor or asset manager. Many of my peers use fee-based products that replicate protective put strategies. I have several clients in funds linked the BXM and am taking a long look at PUT. Since you've complained about lack of options tools and awareness on the part of major BDs in the past perhaps these products are the necessary half step. The goldilocks porridge of options products for advisors.
Advisors Option 18: Listener Mail Extravaganza The Buzz: An overview of the upcoming Options Industry Conference. What topics are discussed at the conference? Who attends? Is there any benefit for advisors? Listener Mail Extravaganza: The Advisors Options mail bag is filling up, so we are going to tackle as many as possible this episode: Question from Neal Santos - I am in the market for a new advisor and your program has awakened me to the benefits of using options. What sort of licensing should I look for in an advisor to make sure he is qualified to handle options investments? Is there a specific options exam offered by the exchanges or perhaps OCC that I should look for? Thanks for the show. Question from J. Andrews, Philadelphia, PA - I have multiple clients with retirement assets in broad based equity portfolios. I have already done the correlation work and calculated how many SPX and SPY puts it would require to both fully and partially hedge the positions. My initial thought is to utilize SPX contracts as the larger size will reduce the number of contracts and reduce the overall commissions. But I have serious concerns regarding slippage in the SPX. I fear that over the long-term the dramatic difference in the bid-ask spread of the two products will result in lower returns for my clients in the SPX. One or two bad fills is all it would take to wipe out several years' worth of commission savings. Are these fears warranted? Question from Darren - Hi, does OIC have any option alert services? Thanks and I truly enjoy the program. Question from Andrea Tillwell - I would be interested in crafting a custom overlay to my retirement portfolio. Does Swan offer a bespoke service to individual investors or only to institutions? Question from Hudson Trader - I am starting a new RIA with a focus on covered calls. What firms do the best job handling options focused funds - tools, understanding, etc? Question from A_Firm - My clients are pushing for more commodity and volatility exposure in their portfolios. I am comfortable with options but have not traded many futures, so I am looking at ETF options, particularly SLV, GLD, VXX, USO and UNG. What is your view on these products from an options perspective? Do they offer suitable depth and liquidity for clients looking for commodity exposure? Question from TBard - You have discussed leveraged ETFs in the past but have not touched on structured products. This to me is the more interesting of the two product categories for a busy advisor or asset manager. Many of my peers use fee-based products that replicate protective put strategies. I have several clients in funds linked the BXM and am taking a long look at PUT. Since you've complained about lack of options tools and awareness on the part of major BDs in the past perhaps these products are the necessary half step. The goldilocks porridge of options products for advisors.
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Volatility View 97: Consulting Volatility Volatility Review: So much for single digit VIX cash in Q1. VIX options call/put nearly 3 to 1 right now, hovering at record size. People still loving VIX upside - size open interest all the easy up to the Feb 60 strike. Current RVX open interest at 2700 contracts, traded 250 lot yesterday, the zealots are out in RVX. Volatility Voicemail: Comment from Jason Ungar - Hi, Mark: I hope you are well. I just heard your (latest, I think) podcast which included a question about the PUTs consistent outperformance of the BXM. I know you wanted to look into this, and I think I may be able to help. While it is tempting to ascribe the differential to the PUTs puts carrying a higher IV than the BXMs calls, there is almost invariably only a 5 point spread between the two option's strikes, and this is too narrow to capture any significant amount of skew. The actual reason for the difference is a bit more complicated and has to do with the indexes' settlement methodologies. As I am sure you know, index options settle against the Special Opening Quotation, which was instituted by the CME as a way to price expiring S&P 500 futures. The SOQ captures the opening price of all 500 components of the S&P 500, and the anomaly is that on expiration Fridays the SOQ often comes in at a premium to the cash open. The precise reason for this is unknown, but it may have to do with the action of market makers buying back the futures they used to hedge short put positions. The CME and CBOE are aware of this (see the included "Understanding the SOQ" pamphlet and note the consistent positive spread between the SOQ and the cash open and the reference to the SOQ "occasionally departing from index values".) The reason the high SOQ is relevant is that it causes the BXM to purchase expiring ITM calls at a premium and the PUT to purchase expiring ITM puts at a discount. This is compounded by the tendency of the market to open strong on expiration and then to tail off. This is good for the PUT, which is out of the market for the first two hours of trading, and bad for the BXM, which is long the market until new calls are sold beginning at 11:30 eastern. You can do an easy test to confirm this. Just line up the daily returns for both indexes (available for download at cboe.com), and note that the greatest differentials (usually in the PUT's favor) almost always occur on expiration Fridays. I have included a JAI paper on the PUT I coauthored with Matt Moran as well as a follow up article. I would be happy to discuss any of this. All the best, Jason Ungar Question from Hannibal Smith - What is the Volatility Views panels take on the recent announced VolDex product from ISE and Nations Shares? Is it a credible competitor to VIX? Crystal Ball: Heading for more of the same trouble in VIX land?
Volatility Views 97: Consulting Volatility Volatility Review:So much for single digit VIX cash in Q1. VIX options call/put nearly 3 to 1 right now, hovering at record size. People still loving VIX upside - size open interest all the easy up to the Feb 60 strike. Current RVX open interest at 2700 contracts, traded 250 lot yesterday, the zealots are out in RVX. Volatility Voicemail: Comment from Jason Ungar - Hi, Mark: I hope you are well. I just heard your (latest, I think) podcast which included a question about the PUTs consistent outperformance of the BXM. I know you wanted to look into this, and I think I may be able to help. While it is tempting to ascribe the differential to the PUTs puts carrying a higher IV than the BXMs calls, there is almost invariably only a 5 point spread between the two option's strikes, and this is too narrow to capture any significant amount of skew. The actual reason for the difference is a bit more complicated and has to do with the indexes' settlement methodologies. As I am sure you know, index options settle against the Special Opening Quotation, which was instituted by the CME as a way to price expiring S&P 500 futures. The SOQ captures the opening price of all 500 components of the S&P 500, and the anomaly is that on expiration Fridays the SOQ often comes in at a premium to the cash open. The precise reason for this is unknown, but it may have to do with the action of market makers buying back the futures they used to hedge short put positions. The CME and CBOE are aware of this (see the included "Understanding the SOQ" pamphlet and note the consistent positive spread between the SOQ and the cash open and the reference to the SOQ "occasionally departing from index values".) The reason the high SOQ is relevant is that it causes the BXM to purchase expiring ITM calls at a premium and the PUT to purchase expiring ITM puts at a discount. This is compounded by the tendency of the market to open strong on expiration and then to tail off. This is good for the PUT, which is out of the market for the first two hours of trading, and bad for the BXM, which is long the market until new calls are sold beginning at 11:30 eastern. You can do an easy test to confirm this. Just line up the daily returns for both indexes (available for download at cboe.com), and note that the greatest differentials (usually in the PUT's favor) almost always occur on expiration Fridays. I have included a JAI paper on the PUT I coauthored with Matt Moran as well as a follow up article. I would be happy to discuss any of this. All the best, Jason Ungar Question from Hannibal Smith - What is the Volatility Views panels take on the recent announced VolDex product from ISE and Nations Shares? Is it a credible competitor to VIX? Crystal Ball: Heading for more of the same trouble in VIX land?