10-In-A-Row For Dow As VIX Plunges To New Cycle Low
If it's a day of the week ending in 'y' then sure enough the Dow is green - 10 days in a row - best run since Nov 1996. The cash S&P's all-time high remains a day or two away at 1576.1 but today's late-day ubiquitous idiocy (first via VIX and then via HYG) took it within a point of the all-time closing high of 1565.15. Volume - take a guess! Trannies outperformed as 4 different stocks were short-squeezed this time to drive half the index's performance (CNW, R, KSU, and UNP). VIX daggered lower to new cycle lows ending at 11.05% at its lows. Away from that tom-foolery, stocks were 'supported' by USD weakness as GBP ramped higher on pre-budget excitement and EUR just because why not; Treasury yields ended the day near the lows of the week - entirely in keeping with the highs of the week in stocks... USD weakness helped WTI rise on the day - now best performer on the week among the commodities with Silver lagging on the week (while gold limps higher). Just another day in dystopia... ahead of the CCAR Part 2.
Trannies won but the S&P made a decent run at it into the close before dumping back towards VWAP...
Treasury Yields at the lows of the week, stocks at the highs and gold flip-flopping between the two...
S&P 500 futures remain in trend as volume drips away...
There was one thing that was different today... shorts worked.. for the first day in a while, the Russell 3000's 'Most Shorted' index sold off AND the Russell 3000 rallied... is the squeeze starting to end?
and while VIX is at cycle lows - it is not 'cheap' per se relative to realized vol which has the hand of bernanke (or Henry) wrapped around it as we inch higher. Implied and Realized Vol have followed a 'typical' pattern of dropping together, anxiety kicking in and protection bid, a scramble back as the rally proceeds and now the real test as we typically see protection bid once again...
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i was just listening to the daily roundtable on cnbc after the closing bell, and this has got to be one of the more nauseating ones i have yet witnessed.
these ppl are actually saying the market has been moving on great fundementals, we r only going higher from here, and any sell off would be bought so we wont have a sell off.
i really want to punch someone.
BUY A HOME NOW OR BE PRICED OUT FOREVER
It's fucking ludicrious. Earlier today on Marketwatch, the front page story was about stocks being priced "modestly". I mean FFS.
This truly should scare the shit out of you. What is so bad out there that they are in full bore assault mode for.......hmmmmm
Exactly how I see it...they're so scared they won't even allow 1 flat/down day anymore?
People say this just goes on forever, I'm leaning more towards 'counting down the hours left' at this point. I mean, 1%^ daily? DAILY??
GBP ramped higher on pre-budget excitement and EUR just because why not
Lol
There was one thing that was different today... shorts worked.. for the first day in a while, the Russell 3000's 'Most Shorted' index sold off AND the Russell 3000 rallied... is the squeeze starting to end?
Anyone dare to take that bet?
All you morons out there, still trying to short this juggernaut ... Nanananana Give up you fools. Here comes the Economic Boom. LOL
I've become accustomed to the stench of insanity in the afternoon.
Indeed.
http://spiritoftruth.org/Thesis/Intro
No fear, eh?
http://www.secondkoreanwar.com
Note that today the DJ Composite capped the 5000 mark:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EDJA
It tapped the 1000 mark right before the 1987 stock market crash.
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2011/01/thousand-mark-reversals-in-...
"Stock prices have reached a permanently high plateau."
All you morons out there, still trying to short this juggernaut ... Nanananana Give up you fools. Here comes the Economic Boom. LOL
stopped out short position..am on the sidelines now..was a small position, so not hurting, but maybe since I threw in the towel this is the TOP..can't go long, can't go short..can't go bonds..a very weird markets have we.
Exactly. Short ANYTHING means you've been slaughtered. And as the police are fond of pointing out "you never break one law." in others words "he wasn't just going 40 mph over the speed limit." in this case "you don't just Big Short the banks." you're short the Government as well...meaning treasuries of course. To say this has been the "biggest squeeze in history" would be an understatement. "they're playing a game of which I am unfamiliar with" as Bobby Jones famously said. Since when you are long the most you can lose is what you put in (no conspiracy there folks...just truth) whereas "you can lose infinity compounded" when shorting you indeed play that game "at great personal risk." so go ahead..."start by saying you're smarter than everyone else."
I watched that too.
Those fund managers and stock junkies talking their book are barf inspiring, and punchable.
At least it ended with Santelli saying that an "Arch Duke Fredinand moment" could be just around the corner, and the attractive young Woman commentator calling Ben Bernanke "Mighty Mouse".
In the event anyone wants to know whether the market will be up or down tomorrow.
I get the same way. Positive euphoric MSM spew at major tops. Always seems to occur this way.
My new business will be to make punching clowns of all the CNBS anchors. I'm thinking the Jim Cramer model will be the hottest seller. The only drawback would be the license fees I'd have to pay for the likeness rights.
how about paper targets?
to shoot at, or shit on?
Please.... Easy on the clown bashing. I am a clown
Spewing Bear Stearns is an all time buy
Better yet....open a shooting range with pictures of these clowns on the paper targets. You will make a fotune.
Likeness rights?! Just substitute the ass of the animal that has the closest resemblance! Liesman and a pig's butt seem to fit ....as does the squeal but you can save the sound effects for your premium mode. Ross-Sorkin and a poodle butt? Mmmm. Seriously, you may be on to something here with your punching clowns. By why focus on CNBC when you have the whole universe of TV and cable bullshit artists. :-)
I wish a trannie(Michelle Ca-Ca?) would outperform on Maria B
...a 10-15% increase over a 3 month period, no noteworthy reversals or corrections, and a 10-day continuous upwards move.
Ridiculous. This is supposed to be a free market? Is anyone actually stupid enough to buy this?
If this doesn't worry you, it should.
Blah blah blah and the pope is still Catholic.
Until the Fed stops its disruption and gasoline, step away from the madness of equities and bonds. You're gambling, not investing.
Exactly. Lol. I escaped this madness a year ago.
mmm straight diagonal lines. I once tried to be creative by coloring outside the lines, but the teacher slapped my hand and said the lines were there for a reason.
Don't try to trade outside the trendline. Bernanke's got a ruler spiked with nails waiting to swing in your direction.
I think we are seeing the Superior Mother of all bubbles.
... on that vein, I'd say it's the bond bubble spilling into equities.
I doubt the bubble is in stocks, the public are not really involved in this market to any degree. Cab drivers are not telling you how great stocks are. The Dow in on around 13 times. Plus there is enormous skepticsim of the rally. None of these would be true in a bubble, in fact quite the opposite. The rally is over extended but it's not a bubble. In fact plenty of investors are still overweight bonds, which is probably where the real bubble is.
Of course its not a bubble....a bubble implies everyone is involved. This is just primary dealers and shady hedge funds sanctioned by the banks swwapping financial instruments amongst each other at ever increasing $ values.
So, it is worse than a bubble....it is a mirage created by unlimited credit from our lovely central banks (and their elected and paid-for officials). They are just hoping it causes another bubble.
Maybe it's the first megarich, TBTF bubble.
If the one-percenters own 80 percent of the wealth, why shouldn't they sponsor their own exclusive bubble?
Cab drivers and shoeshine boys' nickels are invisible compared to Ben Shalom's $85 billion a month. The bubble doesn't need their loose change.
Well, sooner or later people cant afford to buy anything from the companies the 1% owns. Does it really matter then how much money they throw between each other?
Dow 15,000 before the end of the month!
Apple was going up $100 a month tis time last year on a hopium binge. Why shouldn't the Dow add 1000 points a month on the same?
Maybe Bernanke has a massive coronary and drops dead. The stock market has it's Steve Jobs moment and collapses 50%.
You kidding...if Bernanke dies, Yellen is in...and it's only Ben's moderation and prudence holding us back from "bubble" territory. Give Janet or Krugers the reins and then, POW, right to the moon!!!
You got it, bro ... YELLEN AIN'T SELLIN' ... and neither should you.
Is Yellin jellin'?
There's no tellin' how much she's jellin'!
Yellin's jellin' like a felon!
If Bernanke is smart, he's programmed the Fed Funds computer to 'ZIRP forever,' with or without him.
Bernanke is leaving next January, by the way.
Watch the S&P hit 2000 on rumors that the Bernank will be replaced by ... KURGMAN.
Hey ... Nobel prize winnahs gotta stick together.
If that happens, you'll know that the "Fall Guy" is in place. Otherwise, he is simply too risky for them (way too many obvious negatives to detract from the role of "serious monetary manager").
One thing is for sure, it'll be the greatest clown-show on Earth!
miss that show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LX8PPMuOY
More like 15,300 at this rate....party on...
It has been so long since I shorted any stock I am going to need a refresher course on how to short. But of course, the whole fucking phony market will blow up so fast I will miss the first 20% down.
People believe this market is real?
Don't fight the Fed, the Dow has been positive every day since the sequestration kicked in. This is effen absurd.
Get used to it.
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau!
Correction - Permanently higher incline.
BTW - anybody know what the longest win streak is for the Dow?
'The record is 13 up days in a row, which came in 1987.'
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2013/03/14/dows-winning-streak-has-that-...
Ah, yes, I remember 1987 well. As a young 22 year old college grad, I started my first job, receiving my series 7 license in September. Six weeks later, sayonarra, market. It was a good time to be young and stupid.
The Dow's record 13-day run began on 2 Jan 1987 and continued through 20 Jan 1987.
Up 11% in 13 trading days.
That was so far back in the mists of history that Paul Volcker was still Fed chairman.