Equity Armor Investments
Market commentary, volatility insights, and media appearances.
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Trick or Treat: Deciphering Market Scares from Real Dangers By Joe Tigay, Portfolio Manager Rational Equity Armor Fund Halloween has come and gone, and what a joy it is t…
Read full article →Everyone's Pretending to Know What Happens Wednesday. Here's the Truth. By Joe Tigay Portfolio Manager, Rational Equity Armor Fund and Catalyst Nasdaq 100 Hedged Equity F…
Read full article →The VIX Crash Signal: What History Tells Us About the Next Three Months By Joe Tigay, Portfolio Manager, Rational Equity Armor Fund We're in the thick of earnings season,…
Read full article →Don't Kill the Golden Goose: A Market Maker's View on Q3 Earnings and Market Leverage By Joe Tigay Former VIX and SPX Options Market Maker, Current Portfolio Manager of t…
Read full article →Q3 Earnings Preview: Why Banks Matter More Than You Think By Joe Tigay As Q3 earnings season kicks off, the market's obsession with big tech is understandable but potenti…
Read full article →When Everyone Calls It a Bubble, It Probably Isn't By Joe Tigay, Portfolio Manager of the Rational Equity Armor Fund and former VIX and SPX pit market maker The Paradox o…
Read full article →Q4 2025 Equity Market Outlook: Climbing the Wall of Worry By Joe Tigay, Former VIX and SPX Pit Options Market Maker As we close the books on Q3 2025, equity markets have …
Read full article →The AI Boom: Are We Riding the Next Great Liquidity Cycle? By Joe Tigay, Former VIX and SPX Pit Options Market Maker Looking at the market action from 1995-1998 shown in …
Read full article →Market Bubble 2.0: Are We Repeating 1998? By Joe Tigay, Former SPX Pit and VIX Pit Options Market Maker, Portfolio Manager of the Rational Equity Armor Fund Look, I've be…
Read full article →The Fed's Dilemma: Why Rate Cuts Could Trigger a "Crack-Up Boom" I'm Joe Tigay, portfolio manager of the Rational Equity Armor Fund and a former VIX pit options market ma…
Read full article →3 Scary Market Risks vs. 5 Game-Changing Technologies (One Company Owns Them All) The investment world is facing a classic paradox right now. On one hand, legitimate mark…
Read full article →The Fed's Death Star Moment: Why Interest Rate Policy Is Like Luke's Trench Run By Joe Tigay, Portfolio Manager, Rational Equity Armor Fund The Federal Reserve faces a ne…
Read full article →The Market's "Lost" Moment: How Many Seasons Can This Rally Run? The stock market lately feels a bit like the TV show Lost —we keep getting answers, but each one just lea…
Read full article →S&P 500 Concentration Risk: Why Your "Diversified" Index Fund Isn't What You Think The Hidden Truth About S&P 500 Concentration Risk As a former VIX market maker who spen…
Read full article →After the Storm: Icarus, Interest Rates, and the Path Forward By Joe Tigay, Former VIX Pit Options Market Maker, Portfolio Manager of Rational Equity Armor Fund (HDCTX) a…
Read full article →The Calm Before the Storm: A Volatility Pro's Reflection on Markets at All-Time Highs By Joe Tigay, Former VIX Pit Options Market Maker, Portfolio Manager of Rational Equ…
Read full article →Market Volatility Seasonality: The Ant vs. Grasshopper Approach to Summer Highs and September Surprise By Joe Tigay, Volatility Expert, Options Pro, and Portfolio Manager…
Read full article →Stocks Go Up, Stocks Go Down: A Vol Trader's Reality Check The Truman Show Was Just Practice Back in 1998, I was a high school kid watching Seinfeld reruns and dragging m…
Read full article →Navigating the Summer 2025 Markets: Low Volatility, All-Time Highs, and Upcoming Catalysts As the week of July 7th, 2025, begins, the market collectively exhales. We have…
Read full article →The Ripple Effect: How Smart Money Uses the VIX to Beat Market Panic An options trader's perspective on why the "fear index" is actually your portfolio's best friend The …
Read full article →Nobody Knows What Happens Next (And That's Okay) The talking heads are out in force this week. Turn on any financial news channel, scroll through social media, or browse …
Read full article →The Vol Trader's Reality Check: Markets Do What Markets Do A brutally honest take from someone who profits when everyone else panics Meta Description : Volatility trader …
Read full article →The Great Cash Hoarding: Investors Are Building Sideline Stockpiles Again Money market funds are experiencing a dramatic surge in assets as investors retreat to the safet…
Read full article →Beyond NVIDIA: Unpacking the AI Revolution and Where the Smart Money is Moving It was great to join Yahoo Finance recently to dive deep into NVIDIA's latest earnings and,…
Read full article →NVIDIA Earnings: Navigating Volatility, Fueling AI's Future Market's Wild Ride This Week Yesterday, May 27, 2025, rocked the stock market. It ignited broad optimism. The …
Read full article →Navigating Multi-Factor Market Volatility: A Portfolio Manager's Guide Current market conditions present a complex web of interconnected risks that demand careful analysi…
Read full article →Market Musings: A Tale of Two Weeks Hello everyone, Joe Tigay here with some thoughts on our rollercoaster market. From Optimism to Caution in Seven Days Just last Monday…
Read full article →This Week's Economic Rollercoaster: Maybe Good News? Maybe Bad? Who Knows! Monday, May 12, 2025 The global economy is pulling some serious plot twists right now. The U.S.…
Read full article →Stock Market Update: May 2025 - Fed Meeting, Big News & Hot Earnings The stock market rollercoaster is taking another wild turn as we kick off May 2025. After tech compan…
Read full article →Why Tech Earnings Are Make-or-Break for the Economy in Q1 2025 As the stock market hovers at a critical level, the Q1 2025 earnings season—running April 28 to May 2—has b…
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