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S&P 500 Breaks 50DMA For First Time In 4 Months

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Five down days in a row (first time in 5 months) for the S&P 500 (cash) and it has broken its 50DMA for the first time since 12/20/11. Notably the equal-weight S&P 500 broke the 50DMA yesterday and is now down 4.4% (versus -3.5% for the cap-weighted S&P 500) from its highs on 4/2. At what point do levered liquidations (VIX nearing 20% at one-month highs) cause the S&P 500 index dog to wag its AAPL tail as opposed to the other way around as it remains the outperformer relative to European equity and US and Europe's credit markets.

 

 

US equity indices remain outperformers but this seems so clearly driven by AAPL's impact that we fear for the dog to start wagging its tail soon...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:54 | 2331378 lunaticfringe
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Ben is whipsering in my ear. QE3 boy...QE3.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:58 | 2331399 SHEEPFUKKER
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Manipulation masterbation.  

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:15 | 2331472 economics9698
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3 years, 5 months since the crash and Ben is still juggling.  Give the man some credit.  He may go down as the man who killed the Fed but he can juggle with the best of them.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:34 | 2331911 Vampyroteuthis ...
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Until inflationary forces go away, you ain't getting anything from the Fed. It is time to crash the market to get rid of Obamao this election year.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:55 | 2331380 SilverTree
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LOOKOUT BELOW!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:20 | 2331422 DoChenRollingBearing
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I am not a chart reader, but it DOES look bad...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:21 | 2331762 DoChenRollingBearing
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Even worse, S&P down 1.57%, at its low for the day.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:55 | 2331383 LongSoupLine
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AAPL HAS GONE RED

 

This is not a drill.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:59 | 2331406 CClarity
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And now we'll see the opposite side of "liquidity" rush.

Unintended consequences of APPL as proxy 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:02 | 2331916 Vampyroteuthis ...
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Liquidity panic!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:34 | 2332047 Nobody For President
Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:56 | 2331386 monopoly
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Now this is getting interesting. And fired a few cannons. Thank you Zero Hedge for the timely, informative charts. What a site.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:04 | 2331425 DoChenRollingBearing
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+ 1 Yes

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:56 | 2331387 GeneMarchbanks
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100DMA break will usher in a rumor about rhetoric of a possible QE3.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:59 | 2331397 DormRoom
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No QE3. Doing so will break Japan.  USDJPY  is 75 death spiral for everyone.  FED pushing up against exogenous constraint conditions.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:03 | 2331423 Quinvarius
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So the Fed is going to stop buying Treasuries then?  QE was going on a decade before 2008.  It has only accelerated since.  It will only accelerate because we don't have the economy or tax base to support our Federal government or its debt.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:20 | 2331487 SWCroaker
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If a Central Banker prints in the woods, and fails to delare doing so to the MSM, does it *really* count?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:40 | 2331528 Quinvarius
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If you are buying groceries or other things of high utility when paper money has no savings utility, yes.  If you are buying another piece of paper, no idea. 

I listened to a Ben Davies interview where he was taking about a discussion he had with people in a South American inflation.  He was told the people just sucked it up until it got up to 30% a week.  The frog will sit in the boiling water for a long time with proper indoctrination.  But the frog is still being cooked the whole time. 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:10 | 2331451 GeneMarchbanks
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Touche. I forgot how considerate the Yanks are when it comes to Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Put the hash away, then post my child.

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:20 | 2331481 fuu
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Total junk bait.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:58 | 2331389 DormRoom
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wake me up when AAPL weekly MACD(22) start to turn over.  Then we'll see a real sh*t show.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:56 | 2331390 tocointhephrase
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I can smell the zer000000000's from here!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:58 | 2331393 death_to_fed_tyranny
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FUCK YOU BEN BERNANKE! FUCK THE PONZI MARKET! AND FUCK YOU JON CORZINE!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:01 | 2331398 Likstane
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Like waking up with Kari Norgaard after a Vodka-Viagra fueled night out at the Italian Disco.  When the smack wears off and the lights come on, you get sober real quick

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:00 | 2331400 kahunabear
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Ben hit the snooze button this AM?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:17 | 2331475 brooklynlou
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Ben! Ben! Wake up! The trading robots are sad and want a trillion dollars. Ben! Come one man, wake up, we got sad robots to cheer up. Get a move on ...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:58 | 2331401 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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BTFD!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:04 | 2331429 DoChenRollingBearing
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Naah!  Au & Ag!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:39 | 2332074 Nobody For President
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BTFC?

(As in Crash)

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:59 | 2331405 Slope of Hope
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The break of the 50 dma really set off the algos.  That last whoosh on the futures was a brief sign of things to come.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:02 | 2331413 LawsofPhysics
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Shorting and potentially all options will be outlawed, capital controls, price controls, ZIRP is QE, rock meet hard place.  Direct monetization until supply chains break, then war.  Could be a while yet.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:03 | 2331415 realtick
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The VIX is going to explode higher:

http://chart.ly/covcqb3

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:42 | 2332087 Nobody For President
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'...going to' ?

VIX +11.22% as of 1340 EST.

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:02 | 2331416 Moneyswirth
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Um, AAPL is red.

Wheeeeeeeeeeee

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:02 | 2331417 navy62802
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Good God, it's a fucking blood bath over there in Europe.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:04 | 2331426 bob_dabolina
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The pain is thick for sure over there.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:02 | 2331421 q99x2
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UVXY around $20 and change. Recently it experienced a 1 for 6 reverse vaporization. It's an etf rather than an etn like that made a name for itself TVIX.

In case anyone is feeling a bit suicidal TVIX is a bargain at $9 something today.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:07 | 2331434 williambanzai7
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MEET THE SHITHEAD

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:10 | 2331452 LongSoupLine
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Brilliant William...simply brilliant.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:08 | 2331440 GrinandBearit
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Die, die, die... fucking DIE!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:13 | 2331457 fuu
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C'mon Ben, make it rain.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:16 | 2331466 TradingJoe
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...and now imagine one tiny little fucking rumor of ....qe-3 or the like....:))) REAL VOLUME still a no show ..though...:))!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:15 | 2331467 lizzy36
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Spread:The Sequel.....coming soon to an EU market near you.

But due to "decoupling" it will be Spread 2.0 in the USA.

BOOYAH!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:18 | 2331477 dwdollar
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You'll know there's panic when the herd stampedes back to Zerohedge (servers go down).

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:19 | 2331480 vincent van goo
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VXX and AAPL were moving in opposite directions since November.  I took a position a few weeks ago in vxx and got slapped up a bit......I am recouping most of my dumb move now.   That's what I get for trying to time the market.  Have to follow closely for any downward movement.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:20 | 2331483 monopoly
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And AAPL is not even down 1%. Imagine if we ever got a REAL correction.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:42 | 2331563 junkyardjack
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Investors fleeing to safety, AAPL and PCLN...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:22 | 2331491 Shizzmoney
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As Mike Goldberg would say before an MMA fight: "Here....we.....go!"

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:33 | 2331525 SillySalesmanQu...
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All out shorting commencing NOW! Thou shall not go long...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:45 | 2331575 junkyardjack
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Last time it broke in December it was bullish! The economy is saved

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:24 | 2331775 walküre
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the one trillion in LTRO went to some Russian oligarch. Could have been the biggest heist ever. Bigger than the bailout heist even. Where is the money?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:55 | 2332159 Nobody For President
Wed, 04/11/2012 - 02:17 | 2333767 bluebare
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What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we've been fighting to destroy?

PADME AMIDALA, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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