Trader: This ‘Out-Of-The-Blue Outcome Could Hurt Some Market Players’

By Kevin Muir of “The Macro Tourist” fame; reposted here with permission Too many market participants believe rising stock market volatility can only occur in down markets. It might be true that rising volatility is considerably more likely to occur in times of market stress, but it’s nowhere near as certain as most pundits believe. While there can be no denying that stock markets often take the escalator up and the elevator down, this generalization is far from a law of nature. Volat