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Here Is How To Play Gold: BAML

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Mark Melin
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A major bank derivatives research report suggests it might be time to play gold on both sides of the market. The recent surge in the gold market was accompanied by a decided asset movements, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch derivatives research report noted. This comes as gold’s implied volatility skew is at its most inverted since 2009, even despite Tuesday’s sell-off.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.