Ari Pine Research & Trading is dedicated to providing resources to options traders interested in gold. Our main product is the Gold Options Weekly Commentary. The Gold Options Weekly Chartbook is produced and distributed free of charge. In addition to the Commentary, we provide specialized services to clients, including historical implied volatility data for gold options, custom research, trade execution and consulting.
Pine Research & Trading brings data and experience together to produce strategy.
Conclusions are made and verified using quantitative analysis. Our research uses historical data both widely available and also proprietary sources, i.e., a database of historical implied volatility for gold options beginning in mid-2003.
Our analysis combines local expertise and global knowledge. Ari Pine has experience trading derivatives in commodities, fixed income, equities and foreign exchange. As a gold options market maker he is attuned to nuance in that market and its volatility surface. Each week he evaluates the gold options market on its own and relative to other global volatility markets.
Bringing data and experience together generates ideas. Not every idea is a trade. But in the competitive markets it is essential to get an edge. That edge is often found by looking at the world is a slightly different way. The market commentary strives to distill the market down to its most important factors.
