Has The "Opening Pump" Replaced The "330 Ramp"?

From the lows in 2009, there was one sure thing in the market - buy stocks at 330pmET and sell at the close. For 3 years this massively outperformed every other period... until ZeroHedge exposed 330 RAMP CAPITAL in 2013. Since then it has been a losing bet with the 930-10amET "opening pump" replacing it as the "easy money." That was, until Black Monday...

It appears since then "the team who protects markets from plunging" has switched back to what they know best...

And - by way of pure conjecture, as we noted previously - there is an odd correlation with VIX positioning...

Chart: Nanex LLC

Comments

[stant]

I want Tuesday back

[HedgeAccordingly]

more buyers vs sellers.. but likely is hedging index option positions against the futures

Hedging Or Cross Hedging? It Makes A Difference

[knukles]

Oughta move it to 4:20 or 7:14

[playdoh]

just know OEX hedgers = smart money, at least genrally

[r3ct1f13r]

So I am not imagining things.

Nice to know.

[RopeADope]

Whatever they are doing is not working.

They broke the markets on Tuesday morning this week with that particular ramp. Liquidity got shot to sh*t as everyone began suspecting there was a novice button pusher at the helm.

[SillySalesmanQu...]

This shows, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Wall St. algos read Tyler & ZH.

[playdoh]

yep, since the lows of 2009.

they enjoy a good laugh

[xrxs]

Wonder if that was the magic behind last week's squeeze.

[playdoh]

twas the magic carpet ;)

[venturen]

Since there are like 5 entities trading....whatever they wish

[playdoh]

and one of them (PPT) will always kill the shorts, cos ZH posters say so 

[NOZZLE]

I always called it the Magic 2 O'clock bounce

[Clowns on Acid]

Correlation does not prove causality..... errrppp. 

But it does cause one to think.