One Trader Asks: ‘When Will The Volatility Finally Spread?’
“Instead of mindlessly staring at the VIX to get a sense of the market’s volatility worries, I have created a new index.”
“Instead of mindlessly staring at the VIX to get a sense of the market’s volatility worries, I have created a new index.”
Ok, but who eats messy food in a spotless white shirt?
“So, if we assume that Trump wants to reverse this process, then what’s the logical outcome?”
“I don’t… nobody knows what’s going on.”
If this were a reality TV show, the ratings would indeed be “tremendous”.
This is a real kick in the balls for Trump – and possibly for Chinese consumers, depending on how it pans out.
Tuesday was another day that had a distinctly circus-like character to it…
“It was dangerous to see the rollover and going negative. If they had gone seriously negative, it could have doomed the week.”
After Monday’s rout on Wall Street, the same people who were asking if the near-term pain was behind us as stocks rallied into quarter end last Thursday will probably be tempted to ask something similar on Tuesday assuming the bottom doesn’t fall out immediately.Â
Stellar day!
Who knows! That’s the fun of it, right?
…one question worth asking going forward is what happens when these two distinct types of risk-off events collide?
Ok, so given that this is almost certainly going to be back on everyone’s radar next week (although again, it never left the radar, it just got lost in the FANG headlines), this is probably a good time to take a look at some updated scenarios.
“This seemingly counterintuitive result has a distinct ‘path-dependent’ flavor.”
“In the last week of January, as equities went on yet another run, a client who had been waiting to buy the dip called us with an exasperated query.”
R.I.P.
Well markets are rocking from London to Hong Kong on Tuesday as the world takes its cues from the blockbuster rally U.S. stocks staged on Monday.
Who is going to buy these goddamn stocks?
I don’t know where you’re supposed to turn for “analysis” from here.Â
If not, maybe just sit this one out.
“Tremendous” things are happening.
“Draghi’s monetary subsidy of cheap funding for corporations should not be leaking into this number. Yet it obviously is…”
“What if I told you that you’ve been whipsawed by a cartoon, and you’re going to be whipsawed again?”
The market’s verdict was as follows.
So there you go. Bring an umbrella.
Monday was a train wreck from start to finish.
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