This year we have seen a phenomenal resurgence in volatility after years of historically low VIX while the market continued happily upward. While it is common knowledge amongst option traders that when volatility spikes it makes selling shorter duration contracts far more lucrative, digging deeper reveals insight on how to manage duration effectively in a changing volatility environment. It is true that shorter duration contracts typically provide better daily time decay, but that knowledge alone is insufficient to fully structure the best trade for a given situation. When to put the trade on, how far to extend duration initially, and trade management implications are all factors that still need to be addressed.

Check out the recent Reuters article featuring the Shelton Green Alpha Fund!

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Manufacturing PMI’s in the U.S., Europe, and China all reached expansionary levels in June after deep contractions in the prior three months.

Shelton Capital Management, a multi-strategy investment manager, announced the launch of its new fund, the Shelton Emerging Markets Fund (Ticker Symbols: EMSQX, EMSLX), effective June 29, 2020. The Shelton Emerging Markets Fund is the successor fund to the ICON Emerging Markets Fund.

The National People’s Congress of China officially passed the Hong Kong national security bill, thereby stripping the Hong Kong people of their freedom of speech and completely reneging on the deal China signed with Britain three decades ago.

This week we are taking an in-depth look at all the various policy responses to the epidemic and how the economies of the major markets around the world are faring. The region with the highest fiscal response has been Europe where Germany, France, and the UK have spent amounts equal to 48%, 26%, and 22% of their GDP’s respectively.

The biggest topic for us over the past week has been China and their reneging of the “One Country, Two Systems” framework they signed with the British and Hong Kong back in the 1990’s.

How the Fed's Moves are Impacting Bonds Guy Benstead, Portfolio Manager at Shelton Capital Management, joins Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Brian Sozzi to [...]