“There had been a lot of complacency built up in markets over a long time”…
Year: 2018
Quant Crash: Human-Robot Blame Game Escalates As CTA, Risk Parity Scapegoating Reaches Fever Pitch
To fear them or not to fear them?
‘We Do Not Talk, We Act’: Israeli Shares Under Pressure Amid Serious Escalation In Syria
“We will continue to strike at every attempt to strike at us. This has been our policy and it will remain our policy.”
‘I’m A Minsky Moment, I’m Not THE Minsky Moment’
Listen, I mean there’s good news and there’s bad news and then there’s one simple question.
Release The Long End!
Well, damn.
David Stockman Bemoans ‘The Night Of Fiscal Infamy’
“We have crossed the fiscal Rubicon.”
‘Can You Feel The Tension?’ Grab The Scotch, History Says This Correction Could Get Deeper
“Can you feel the tension, in the air right now?”
Fidelity Literally Bans Retail Investors From The Short Vol. Trade Because Morons.
“Better late than never.”
If It Bleeds.
“…we can kill it.”
Trader: You’re Getting ‘Payback’ For Gains That Were ‘Borrowed, Not Earned’
You can’t keep papering over this by reminding people that it’s been one helluva ride on the way up or that over the long-run, things will be fine.
Are Junk ETFs About To Get Stress Tested As High Yield Cracks?
But remember, at some point people will start selling the underlying and that’s when shit gets really messy, especially if that selling ends up being prompted by massive outflows from the ETFs whose holders have no conception whatsoever of the underlying liquidity mismatch.Â
How Much Did CTAs And Risk Parity Sell During The Friday-Monday Bloodbath?
There are lingering questions.
David Stockman: Here Comes The Yield Shock
“That’s right. The taxpayers and future generations be damned. Apparently, it doesn’t matter how many small businesses, farmers and entrepreneurs get elbowed out of the capital markets by Uncle Sam’s $1 trillion per year borrowing spree: Mitchels & Chuckles intend to keep the Washington Monument open and the Imperial City’s 3.7 million employees paid in full come hell or high water.”
‘Oh The Humanity’: This Was A Dark, Dark Week For Stocks In China, Hong Kong
Good lord. Hide the women and children.
Did ‘The Market’s Boogeymen’ Just Suffer Their Worst 5-Day Loss On Record?
This is a particularly touchy subject under normal circumstances and this week is not a week that falls in the “normal circumstances” category, which means this debate is even more contentious than it usually is.
Epsilon Theory’s Latest: ‘The Fundamentals Are Sound’
Is inception possible?
‘I Was Told There Would Be No Corrections’
To be sure, in some contexts it’s impossible to be on the “wrong” side of “being screwed”. Unfortunately, this isn’t one of those contexts.Â
The Psychedelic Swan Moment And Retail’s Volatility Addiction
…that was a 23-standard deviation event. I’m not sure what color swan that is – maybe psychedelic?
Morons Massacred As Short Vol. Double Down Goes Horribly Wrong
“There’s always Target.”
‘Shocks’ And A ‘Critical’ Level
In pop culture terms, “there’s levels to this shit.”
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