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VIX Has Never Done This Before... Ever
Never, in the history of VIX - the so-called 'fear-index' - has this ever happened before...
The last 3 days have seen VIX drop 12.74%, 15.55%, and 13.4% today... VIX has NEVER dropped more than 10% for 3 days in a row ever
h/t @RyanDetrick
And here is VIX today - does that look in any way normal or efficient to you!!??
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And then there's this from last week - As Nanex shows, S&P 500 e-mini futures liquidity dropped to the lowest ever...
Connected? Who knows...
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Isnt there a roll over in VIX this week?
Your PRIVATE Reuters Newsticker:
http://tersee.com/#!q=reuters&t=text
So is it down to 6 yet? That's the legal bottom.
Ride the rocket up and wait for the later crash. It is coming.
calling the inflection points is the bytch
Zero Hedge surely helped feed the fire. Maybe we go 4 or 5 days now.
What happened to the alligator jaws. Hmmmm.
It will go on for a little more than that probably. Always a short squeeze before QE ends, then the diarrhea afterwards.
hard to believe there's still people playing with this shat
Where are the trading bots?
The shitstorm is coming close enough to smell
How do you catch a monkey with a small shiney object and a cage. They just will not let go of the shiney object to save thier lives.
On the back of JP Morgan giving the green light to the bulls.
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/10/is-jp-morgan-giving-green-light-to...
OMG EBOLA!
Eh, more like lack of ebola. Ebola in the so called first world countries was a big worry in the markets due to possible economic effects (people not shopping, not travelng, etc.).
Now the first batch of those under watch have gotten the all clear, second batch of people under watch with no new cases and the news cycle will have moved on in time for Black Friday.
Me thinks before this is over the phrase 'this has never happened before' shall be heard often
A fisherman from the city was out fishing on a lake in a small boat. He noticed another man in a small boat open his tackle box and take out a mirror. Being curious, the man rowed over and asked, "What is the mirror for?"
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> "That's my secret way to catch fish," said the other man. "Shine the mirror on the top of the water. The fish notice the spot of sun on the water above and they swim to the surface. Then I just reach down and net them and pull them into the boat."
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> "Wow! Does that really work?"
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> "You bet it does."
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> "Would you be interested in selling that mirror? I'll give you $30 for it."
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> "Well, okay."
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> After the money was transferred, the city fisherman asked, "By the way, how many fish have you caught this week?"
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> "You're the sixth," he said.
How do you catch a monkey with a small shiney object and a cage. They just will not let go of the shiney object to save thier lives.
How do you catch a monkey with a small shiney object and a cage. They just will not let go of the shiney object to save thier lives.
Mmmkay. You now have 3 monkeys. Now what?
Throw 'em somethin' shiny?
Stew... ;-D
start an ebola epidemic
f'g Ads in my way..... I can't read the thread.
try an ad blocker, its like removing the msm from your life...
I know the metaphor, but the monkeys are out in force, or so it seems.
~and then the monkeys start flinging poop
Rws, fuck you.
/s.
As you know, there are several species of monkey. One flings poop at Russia and Syria while still another indiscriminately flings poop in all directions. The interesting thing is, that these monkeys are not indigenous to Africa.
The ones who target Russia and Syria seem to trace their ancestry to the US. Whereas, the ones who indiscriminately fling poop in all directions seem to have their roots in Tel Aviv.
Since you run with scissors, you might appreciate this;
Some years ago, there was a gorilla at the Atlanta zoo called Willie B. He masturbated several times a day, which caused much consternation among the patrons and zookeepers alike.
So, it was decided that Willie would be provided with toys, to hopefully distract the poor soul from his need to breed. One of the toys was a skateboard...
Have you ever seen a 400 lb. gorilla masturbating while on a skateboard?
Take my word for it, it was fkn hilarious! Sometimes, he'd get a sort of rhythm going and remain upright, but other times he'd get completely 'lost in the moment' and fall on his face/ass.
Good times, I tell ya'! Good times!
The Monkeys Are Coming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD41U6Ph-iw
maybe the solution to our economic woes is to have 100 monkeys typing on keyboards that only have the key CTRL P
guess what only happened 3 times in the last 100 years?
I smell that s$*t...
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/21/news/economy/wealth-income-growth-ratio/
And likely a lot of other "first" and "Ever" to come
It's easy to call the top. I do it all the time.
The rocket (aka the market, on stimulus and via QE) has not yet reached escape velocity, despite being launched 6 years ago, and somehow (it's a miracle) being re-supplied with fuel each and every day.
Now, we're gonna officially end the re-fueling missions, because internally we've realized there's no gain to be had from this mission, but we've instructed our mouthpieces to tell you that all is well and that aside from ebola, you have nothing to worry about.
Just be patient Vampy, we're sure we'll achieve sustainable orbit any day now....
Do I need an /s?
That's everybody's plan. Will everybody be able to get out at once?
Not sure if sarcastic, but here it is anyway...
No, that's why the crash is so steep, so fast. The greediest try to squeeze every penny of gains possible, but should have got out days or weeks earlier & by the time the uniformed investor hears the news & calls their broker it's probably too late & no one is buying or market is broken/frozen. Meanwhile everyone with illiquid investments like pensions eat the biggest loss as they have no say in what happens to their retirement investments & just have to wait until they increase in value again or take a huge hit in monthly income.
Welcome to Krusty's Playhouse.....I will wait for another post like this saying the VIX hasnt done this before...for FOUR straight days in a row.
Looks like the SELL the Vol trade has resumed and is stronger than ever.
And if there is a reversal with forced short covering, the reflexivity in that would collapse the markets all together on their own...ala portfolio insurance in 1987
How's that bread coming ? The Circus seems to go full tilt now...
With celebrity chefs & food shows on cable 24-7 to go with food stamps, six-packs & football, so take two of the fall of the Roman Empire is all set to roll.
Exactly, all the weird spikes and volumes in VIX-denominated instruments were there yesterday too. Typical Opex stuff, especially when we consider what happened in the last weeks.
Why should the VIX be legitimate? Nothing else is. This 'market' is a true bastard. Could have been contrived by Nostradomus.
You foolish Earthlings. Don't you comprehend that we have taked over your stock markets and are draining your world of its wealth. Our point man, Obama, a real alien, will finish his assignment by 2016, leaving your planet a hollowed out burnt husk.
That's not taked over, that's supposed to be tookeded over.
yeah what he said , you Maroon!
Tookeded wold be past infinitive wouldn't it? Along with tookened.
I think he was speaking in the present infinitive.
But what the hell did I knowneded,...
It's , "tooketh"
No need to get all biblical and shit.
Somebody's cruising for a smooting.
that's had smittened to the smotan one.
So if the tokin tooker tookeded the taker for a long ride on a short pier, does that mean he was tooketh to be taked down??
Q: Can I axe you a question about that?
A: I don't know? Can you?
Q: May I axe you a question about that?
You know.. I would just about shit myself giggling if this guy^ was actually Blankfein, trolling ZH'rs from his corporate jet.
"Don't you comprehend that we have taked over your stock markets and are draining your world of its wealth. "
- The Central Banksters.
Nothing alien or out of this world about this. It's just your run of the mill criminal central banker.
There used to be a guy on here who actually seriously peddled the world leaders were reptilian aliens with websites and stuff. I miss that guy among others.
Are you trying to imply that the Queen ISN'T a baby eating reptile?
C'mon man! Look at her picture!
At least consider this!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/eixo/12-evilest-pope-pictures-e9k
Forgive him. When you huff chem trails all day you're prone to all sorts of fantasies.
Seriously though, it can be really hard in times like these to separate fact from fiction. Especially when, in light of new facts and eye opening, yesterday's fiction is indeed today's fact.
Must be David Icke, or one of his followers. Seriously nutty stuff, but hilarious. Makes the Scientologists look restrained.
I think you mennt you have "baked" over the stock market mon
Signed Bob Marley
plus one for bob marley!
tree little burds, mon: yellen, smellen and hellen
Suffer not the alien to live.
Grimaldus (Hero of Helsreach, Reclusiarch of the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter.)
MarketWatch has a front page article about upbeat Yahoo earnings and photo of Marissa Mmeyer will give a person nightmares:
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/MWimages/MW-CW963_YHOO_m_MG_201410201...
Gaze into her smiling eyesockets and witness the true nature of this rally.
Holy shit that is creepy. Maybe they are reptilians.
Looks like one of those animatronicx gadgets from Disney World...
Westworld 2.0
Yul Brynner has nothing on that bitch
my dick would look good in her mouth
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Tiffany_bride_of_chucky.jpg
SO YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A RANDOM PATTERN THAT HAPPENED RECENTLY .... sorry about the caps no time to retype !
my neighbor's half-sister makes $71 hourly on the laptop . She has been fired from work for 9 months but last month her paycheck was $17975 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look at this site... www.job-reports.com
China Gold Association: 2013 Chinese Gold Demand Accounted For 2199 Tonnes
https://www.bullionstar.com/blog/koos-jansen/china-gold-association-2013...
Of all the things that should never be traded, the totally artificial VIX has to be near the top.
What's next, Ebola futures?
Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood PPT
Thiel sez printing until Hill 2016
hill by a wide (posterior) margin.
What's next? Ebola futures?
There already is. A dude was on CNBC today sporting the newly packaged stock that has drug companies, hazement wear industries, pharmaceutical & para etc. all in the name of leveraging your portfolio.
Sorry don't know the ticker symbol.
Bullish on ebola futures. RNA viruses mutate every time they replicate. That's why they never could make a vaccine that works for HIV. Ebola neither.
RNA viruses mutate every time they replicate. That's why they never could make a vaccine that works for HIV. Ebola neither.
What about the common cold and herpes simplex?
Ranks up there with tips.
"What's next, Ebola futures?"
Ebola on the Gold and Silver.
The vix is the mainline for the "fix". Follow the money on this index and I'd guarantee you'll find out who runs this entire charade.
Green us if you feel that we have begun a period in stocks where every day will bring changes of at least one percent, but mostly going down. If you disagree, hit the green.
So....green either way?
Dagnabbit! It's the volatility. Up and down, up and down. Ebola, ISIS, ebola, ISIS. Change you can golf to. You didn't build that. Corzine walks free. Nancy Pelosi. Get the vaccine it's the stuff of dreams of my father no he looks more like the Subud dude....
maybe he's color blind.
'Who knows ?? ' This is why those 113 Fed dudes make over a quarter million fiatscos a year ( the reportable amount ).
Is Soros about to break the FED
Id be happy with Soros breaking his hip.
RIPS
VIXens ... are hawt
VIX vaporub - I knew a girl who ate that s#*t... She never went down 3 days in a row either
you win
LOL to both.
She can't go down if you can't get up.... Just sayin'.
He who controls the indicators, controls perceived reality.
the Matrix is real - reality is the Matrix
Nope. Both the reality and the illusion (Matrix) are true. Disregard either at your peril. (Ron Paul and Robotrader were right.)
"the Matrix is real - reality is the Matrix"
Please to beg your honorable pardon, but the reality is you, the real spiritual being. The unreality is the matrix, Maya, the Grand Illusion. We the spiritual beings we are, are only just passing through learning the daily lessons of the Soul. Or, that which we all are. There is no difference, for all are only a spark of the Great Universal Light, each individually wrapped up in a glass(body) of water, thus making us all one. Quite the trick to place that burning fire into a bag of water and have it smile like You do at 98.8 degrees every day. There is no escape from this reality in the unreality. Proof? Hold two lit bic lighters together and then pull them apart. What is that? We are ALL One flame, each in individual colorful forms.
Moar?
Mmmkay.
The body is made up of the four basic elements of this earth. Air, fire, earth and water. Every human being has this as proof of their familyhood with each other. The family of man. Add to this that we in spirit are all one in the flame form, the spiritual form, it makes no sense to hurt each other if the Higher Light/knowledge is known, and that is the fact that if you hurt others, you are only hurting yourself. Killing others, is killing a part of you. There is no division in the world. Division is a dis-ease of man, not of Creation. Choose to be family with the worlds people, cuz you all are!
Until the real economy forces people to swallow the "red pill". Anyhow, I thought the VIX was volatility, not fear?
When did volatility = fear? Bitcoin is volatile and half of those speculators think it's heading to the moon and beyond. Not so much fear.
Black Capsule
Ebola cured ... All fear is gone
Ebola complacency could be part of it. "Spanish nurse is now cured" "Nigeria is Ebola-free". Has everyone in Nigeria been tested for Ebola?
Watch this space.
Truly, it is hard to believe that Ebola has travelled on a plane to Dallas but has yet to make it to Ivory Coast or Ghana (where there are beaucoup Liberian refugees). Lot of people trying to leave West Africa right now who can't afford plane tickets. I'm guessing there is alll sorts of small Ebola outbreaks that governments are desperately trying to suppress before they are made public.
I think someone posted that Ivory Coast has a travel ban in place.
Yeah. Like our southern border is secure, too.
I didn't realized Ivory Coast was full of racists.
I don't care that it comes crashing down. It was low low low for a long enough time to dabble in it.
What matters is that the VIX got bought by every billionaire and his millionaire houseboy when markets fell apart for a couple weeks. VIX shot up.
It didn't fail to perform and if you're patient enough, you can make your entire annual portfolio gains in a week of market turmoil which will happen again.
Patience
I agree. But what are you using as your "buy-in" point?
weeks, maybe months of complacency... this year the VIX was fast asleep for a long time
$12 ish
Ok. I watched it for a long time this year. Was thinking about TVIX which is a time decay mofo but if you hit it right, geez....
Plunge Protection.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/20/plunge-protection-behind-markets-sudden-rec...
PPT talk is going mainstream. I doubt the fed likes that.
They don't give a fuck about the media. The William Dudley at the NYFED manages, manipulates and controls everything going on in this FUBAR clown show. Unless they are completely shut down, this garbage will continue unabated.
I respect your position, but I think they do care. Otherwise the head of the fed wouldn't be an old hag that's impossible to listen to. Control is better effected when no one thinks you're controlling it.
Fair point, but I don't know ten people who could name William Dudley or what he does. He is the man behind the curtain for all FED market operations. I doubt any of us know exactly what goes on everyday there, but one thing is certain, it is command central for the FED and PPT. And as Tyler pointed out in June, this has been the case far longer than most people realize (decades longer).
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-23/behold-new-york-feds-first-plun...
In my OWN life I am a gentle soul. I remove spiders from my home alive and escort them to my door. I adopt every furry creature who needs. I feed birds. I am good to my neighbours and respect the earth I live upon.
BUT I become like a drunken, angry out of control terrorist when I read what I read. It is way beyond FUBAR. Nothing clownish here. It is pre-meditated rape of billions of souls. And fools as puppets to implement. There was a time when I thought maybe stupidity played in...but not behind the scenes.
That said, I think the master plan is not working out so well.
And I do not see the FED or EBC picking me up gently and escorting me to the door with best wishes.
They have been doing this since Reagan.
Reagan was a noted Free Marketeer and therefore he wanted the markets controlled by the FED.... Huh?
It is downright amazing what some people think about Reagan (in a positive light). His administration was chock full of criminals, liars and warmongers. Look at the people that surrounded him. Bush Sr., Meese, Weinberger, Haig, Schultz, Regan, Baker, Watt, etc...
Good grief. You can't say anything good about that bunch of rotten assholes.
Well, you gotta admit that Al Haig was a take-charge kinda guy . . .
"Deficits don't matter" - Cheney
Tyler, "VIX spike don't matter until they become Airborne." Ask the CDC. - Kirk
True
Dat
We live in Never Neverland. Bellwether stocks shit the bed and index's rally, truly unpossible.
Keviin, time to get the hammer out!
completely normal. no manipulation here, move along.
To quote our Dear Leader.... Fore........................ or Four as the case may be....
Real Question: is 401k worth it to start one now ?
Real question: Would you like to help bail in a TBTF bank with your retirement fund?
real answer - you already did. because everybody lives minute to minute on atm's - and do the math on what they charge you for that, and then look the fee's they charge you for FCKING having an account with them.
if that is not an admission that they can't make money (meaning in a real capitalist country they should not be in business), then it is an admission that on top of the money they CAN make - they are taking more because you are sitting begging to get sheared.
that simple. and since +50 percent of the sheared are getting dole, nobody will complain enough to vote them out.
I CASHED MINE OUT AND BOUGHT HOOKERS AND BLOW AND..UM ..SOMETHING ELSE..CAN'T REMEMBER...MOSTLY GONE NOW ..it was shiney..thats all I remember.
You could do that, or alternatively you could punch yourself in the nuts ten times.
But seriously, if you want to invest as a hedge against shit not collapsing, save your money and do it on your own. Moving your funds around or exiting a 401K in a crisis is impossible. That's why everyone in them is "long term" and waits things out, because you don't have time to react. There are too many conditions.
Master of sarcasm?
Fake Answer: Go all in! NOW already!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. Bite the bullet on the tax. And get away from the system. ?When it comes down most US brokerages, banks will not honour promises. (see Corzine). Better off with bills under a mattress. But there are alternatives.
that is what I think anyway.
Someone with power and influence and money wanted the VIX lower. Simple as that.
Lower, as in 'Hindenberg' lower?
Hindenburg Omen
Found on the same page as info on the 'designers' of the VIX. Could it possible be a Tribe 'plugin'? Another tool to manage perception of the few market participants that still have human blood in their veins?
"The idea of a volatility index, and financial instruments based on such an index, was first developed and described by Prof. Menachem Brenner and Prof. Dan Galai in 1986. Professors Brenner and Galai published their research in the academic article "New Financial Instruments for Hedging Changes in Volatility," which appeared in the July/August 1989 issue of Financial Analysts Journal.[1]
In a subsequent paper, Professors Brenner and Galai proposed a formula to compute the volatility index.[2]
Professors Brenner and Galai wrote "Our volatility index, to be named Sigma Index, would be updated frequently and used as the underlying asset for futures and options... A volatility index would play the same role as the market index play for options and futures on the index."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIX
Peace
QE soon ends. It will be interesting to see how they keep the market up after POMO is gone.
They will of course but maybe now it will be done in secret. FFS the NY Post had a front page article about the PPT. Any more revelations about the inner workings of sausage making and the average Joe will be too sick to 'invest'.
Of course the average Joe doesn't invest....he is sure his profit plan manager is doing it for him....and he knows what is going on. Oh the grand surprises coming.
I was just thinking about that, do revelations about the PPT make you not want to invest, or want to invest it all?
Qe will never end
It will never end until the crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxtXMlPSQAY
QE will mutate more than Ebola.
I agree, QE will end soon. When it does, the velocity of Money will increase. The plan is already in sequence to lower mortgage standards and regardless of the several reasons behind the drop in oil, the economy is primed for what I will term, "the great boom." The greatest party in the history of modern industrialization and capitalism is upon us. .
Anyone here got a link on how to fashion a tool out of a rock? Chew sinew to make thread?
I have some beads I will trade for the secret.
Oh and flint? What is that exactly? Can I buy one at the 7 Eleven?
Not optimistic on the velocity of money or this great boom. If ths is sarc/trolling great job though.
I did see a Quicken Loans ad on TV bragging that they will make you a loan with no appraisal. So maybe the banks are starting to loosen up the taps.
My thoughts are "they" can do what they wish. Last week, whatever day it was when DOW was down 460 (damn seems like 3 months ago now) in my opinion the FED was actively buying the market to prevent further bed shitting. This little rally here may be the setup for announcing that in fact QE is ending (they have to keep some credibility). As long as mkts dont go lower than the lows on that "washout" day (SPY 182ish) then mission accomplished UNTIL "We have to do sonething to spur the economy QE 4Eva" is unleashed...
Looks like Hussein Obola and the Geriatric White Haired Menstrual Chunk went full retard today
Mr Yellen says control your animal spirits
Put the Garden gnome back in the garden.
End the FED.
These are diffucult disturbing frustrating times for the bears
and for me - I got out at levels of 1500 in the S^P and since then loosing money....
My porfolio is 55% short 12%long 10% bonds and and 23% cash
70% in the us dollar
my shorts :
35% of my shorts are in the Dax- average price 9400
20% short S^P index at average price 1850
10% short russell 2000 average price 1130
15% biotechnolgy index average price 2650
12% shorts high beta stocks: Tsla- Gpro-Nflx-Twtr-Fb-Hlf-Amz
losing so far only in Gpro and Fb 20%
3% short indian market - lost 5%
long Vix via VXX etf 5%
last week i was feeling good - this week is difficult- remind me the times i was buying like crazy at 2008-2009 when nobody wanted to hear about stocks- it feels the same today- nobody is selling and shorting,,,
i think i am going to close the computer and monitor and return in 1 year...alot of pain seeing my shorts get squeezed
And finally- as a jew i am ashamed of the fed chairmans - Greenspan-Brenank-Yellen and Fisher
With hyper inflation on the menu I guarantee you anything short will make you sick. Ask Gideon Gono.
Dont worry... theres dickheads of every color.
Im embarrased by my fellow man every day.
RIPS
Care to become my patron?
You be the money genius and I will paint the demise.