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Nomura’s McElligott: Barring Too Much ‘YOLO,’ It’ll Be Hard To Get A ‘Real’ Selloff In The Near-Term

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020

Between rising yields, record coronavirus fatalities in the US, and the prospect of a double-dip

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Back To The Tinderbox

November 27, 2020November 28, 2020

Headed into December, one key part of the year-end, melt-up thesis is that realized volatility

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Nomura’s McElligott On Yellen As Treasury Secretary, Year-End Outlook

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020

For the better part of two months, Nomura’s Charlie McElligott has been keen to press

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Nomura’s McElligott: Investors ‘Respect’ Potential For More Shocks. Complacency Not Currently An Issue

November 17, 2020

While the global equity rally looked poised to cool in the face of new virus

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Gather ‘Round Children, It’s Time For A Liquidity Ghost Story

November 15, 2020November 16, 2020

“If Democrats take control of the Senate after the January 5th Georgia runoff elections, our

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From ‘We’re All Gonna Die’ To 15-Sigma ‘Hope’ Shocks (And Beyond)

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Nothing is certain in life besides truisms, tautologies, death, and taxes, and even the latter

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‘Sure,’ The World’s On Fire. But Strats Controlling $1 Trillion Will Still Buy Stocks

November 11, 2020November 12, 2020

I love reading copy sometimes. Whenever the world is going to hell in a handbasket,

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After The Largest One-Day Momentum Crash In History, Here’s The Ultimate Irony

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020

“The last shall be first and the first last.” That was the story for markets through Tuesday, as value posted

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‘It’s Difficult To Fade’: As Markets React To Vaccine News, ‘Quant Quake’ Risk Comes Calling

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

“It’s difficult to fade this move as global risk markets should rally more on what

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The Day The Earth Stood Still

November 4, 2020November 5, 2020

Donald Trump appeared poised to put up a legal fight in the event some combination

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Here Is Your ‘Last Chance’ Tactical Election Rundown

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Having delivered on what I felt was an editorial obligation to mark the US election

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From ‘Chaos’ To ‘Blue Wave Mania’: Nomura’s McElligott On Election ‘Narrative Overshoots’

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

Observing the evolution of the election narrative through the market’s beer goggles has been quite

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Nomura’s McElligott On October As The Anti-Status Quo And The ‘New’ Election Tail Risk

October 23, 2020October 25, 2020

October’s action in rates and associated thematic expressions in equities represent a “reversal” of the

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‘Buying No Matter What’: Risk Aversion And The Ghost Of 2016

October 21, 2020October 22, 2020

Perhaps market participants are too comfortable in the assumption that Joe Biden will prevail next

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The Best-Laid Plans Of Traders And Pollsters

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

Escalating rhetoric from Donald Trump and lingering suspicions that, after 2016, the polls can’t be

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Nomura’s McElligott: ‘You Cannot Overstate The Gamma Impact Of Single-Name, Mega-Cap Tech Options’

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

The flagging fiscal stimulus push in the US and escalating virus lockdowns in Europe are

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Nomura’s McElligott: It’s ‘Déjà Vu All Over Again’ As August Comes Calling In October

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

The ghost of August is calling, Nomura’s Charlie McElligott reiterates, in a Tuesday note largely

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Nomura’s McElligott Talks Post-Election ‘Right-Tail Risk,’ Return Of ‘The Ghost Of August’

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

Fiscal stimulus is the “new QE,” Nomura’s Charlie McElligott wrote Monday, editorializing a bit around

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No Church In The Wild

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Journalists long ago ran out of euphemisms when it comes to describing Donald Trump’s singular

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Nomura’s McElligott: Market Is ‘Full-Throttle Embracing Biden, Blue Wave’

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Price action on Monday was indicative of a market “going full-throttle” in its “embrace of

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Nomura’s McElligott On ‘Doomsday Prepping’ And The Underpriced ‘Risk’ Of No Chaos

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020

Assuming no black swans come splashing down in the macro lake, equities may be somewhat

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‘The Tendency Of Order To Degrade Into Disorder’: Kocic On An ‘Anything But Ordinary’ Election

September 24, 2020September 25, 2020

US lawmakers on Thursday sought to reassure a nervous nation. For two centuries, America has

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Nomura’s McElligott Talks Short Gamma, ‘Robinhood YOLO’ing’ As Tech Heads For Worst Month Since 2008

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Equities are unshackled this week post-last Friday’s quad witching expiry, and the “unclenching” effect from

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Paper Tigers

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

As markets look warily ahead to the most consequential US election in modern history, it’s

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Crazy Times, Brave Vol Traders, And The ‘God Forbidden Realization Of Chaos’

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

Crazy times On Tuesday, after a half hour search finally turned up my missing envelopes

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Something Dramatic This Way Comes

September 20, 2020September 21, 2020

You can now toss out whatever expectations you may have had for the news cycle

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Nomura’s McElligott Talks Possible ‘October Surprise,’ Near-Term Outlook Following Tech Rout

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

It may look like value is suddenly en vogue in September with laggards like the

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