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What Happened The Last Two Times VIX Closed Below 15%?
VIX has only rarely traded below 15% during 'new normal' times. The period from 2004 to early 2007, the so-called 'Great Moderation', saw VIX average 13.6% - at the time stunningly low (and notably where VIX closed yesterday). While looking at VIX alone can be misleading (with regard to the term structure differences and realized vol premia), it is nevertheless a gauge of market's expectations of return volatility in the short-term - however contemporaneous that is. Following the two times that VIX first closed below 15%, the S&P 500 has suffered from a 5.25% and 7.75% plunge in the following two months - and each time saw a quick post-VIX-plunge pop in stocks that provided better entry levels for shorts. High Yield credit also stumbled hard widening 80 and 150bps respectively.
Longer-term VIX has only rarely traded at these levels...
and the last two times showed significant retracements in April 2011...
and March 2012...
and should you be looking for a position, it would appear the S&P is a 'better' short (given its richness to high-yield credit)...
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The INVERSE VIX is setting up for a devasting collapse lower:
http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2012/08/brace-for-impac...
charts are essentially meaningless today. why? QE, ZIRP, shadow QE, shadow books, algos, you fucking name it! if we were to study charts we'd be at SP below 800 last year! It's ALL fucked!
Capitulation wet towel anyone?...
Until they aren't. The planners can only hold the line so long.
No, charts are totally relevant intraday... Technicals are exactly what algos trade on... Day-trading these days is amazingly easy... Just follow a 5 minute ES chart and use a shorter timeframe chart for entries. Piece. Of. Cake. Follow the Robot.
Follow the robot? Lol..these will be the no spread robots, working for IBs, that are in and out in the blink of a blink of an eye? While you wait for your market maker (oh sorry ndd/stp/ECN broker) to execute your trade from your platform, which relies on upload speeds on 0.5 mbs from your wf fi connection? Nope don't go there, trade off dailies or weeklies, anything else is madness.
The closer you get to their game the more you're being gamed..
Good post, even if you didn't 'believe' in fundamental analysis and or technical analysis pre 2008 you could make a decent case for them being useful..like you say, fubar now..
Each day I try to make sense of the markets and you can't, arguably the only securities left near to purity is fx cos tptb can't really control and corner a 4 trl a day market influenced by macro Economic and big domestic events..but then you get twats like Draghi opening his mouth and repeating his parlour trick three days running..
Each day it's the same, snafu..
I don't short--too dnagerous for amateurs.
How do you make money then?
Long precious metals?
Silver, copper, lead, and brass.
Short, but don't do it for longer than 5 minutes!
Pennies in front of a steamroller...
$1000/day in front of the steamroller, don't you mean?
This time.. is different.
All your volatility are belong to us...
All the instruments that effect VIX are flawed...dangerous and broken...draw no conclusions from there sick existence!!!
im long some tvix from an avrg price of 2.68..looking for a run to 4 hopefully by late next week..stop loss is at 2.14
The market is more broken today that it was back then. Fewer algo's co-located on the floor. There were fewer victims of the FED policies back then as well.
Yes but look at each successive spike afterwards, they get smaller and smaller so QE is WORKING...warm up the helicopters...
Everyone is waiting for Europeans to come back from their vacations to resume the Euro crisis.
Russell 2000 is the index to short, IMO, when the time comes.
Rolling over as we speak:
http://stockcharts.com/public/1439695
Just means the markets have been taken over totaly at this point. I dont expect any 'market forces' to manifest in these conditions.
Nice catch TD.
Any market crash may be blamed on Algobot HAL software sabotage with HFT volume drying up.
Oh:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-14/knight-software
JEF et al KCG preferreds may be a good deal. Or not.
Did we mention we still got dem SPY puts?:
http://richcash8tradeblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/rich-cash-overnight-options.html
I miss the days when the vix hit 80, the market was alot more interesting then. Now there's more excitement in one episode of Dora the Explorer than there is in a whole month's market action.
Fantastic reference, Dr. Engali!
As somebody who was once forced to watch Dora cartoons while babysitting, I can fully appreciate your comment.
Markets. Funny - all I see are psy-ops weapons.
not for shorters, they suffer. I am sure they would like to feel like Dora.
I'm the MAAAAAP!
S&P 500 looks like it is on the path to 1422/1429. No shorts until then.
Agreed with you.... this could be a bear trap for now.
Agreed with you.... this could be a bear trap for now.
I read this as a beer trap.
This time it is (of course) different.
DOW 20K, S&P 1500
Does it really matter at this point?
It does for shorters
All time highs in price, all time low in volume... The restaurant is empty but business is good, pass the fairy dust.
Pass the "Fairy Dust" you've gotta be joking ?? From where I am the damn "Fairy Dust" is three feet deep and rising,,,my biggest worry is drowning in it ! If Obozo and Bennie (and jets [FOMC] ) are not stopped soon, we are all going to need to get out the specs for NOAH's ARC, lest we may all perish in the "Fairy Dust".
...doing GOD's work...GS-DickinDaMuppets
.... The "Markets" are no longer influenced by suppley and demand, the magic wand of propaganda (and market rigging) rules all. US markets have decoupled from reality, the Muppets are on a stick and the Banksters along with the leadership are on the take.
Bullish
There is an underwater pineapple wearing a turbie towel on both legs
we are all dreamers in the bottm of our hearts
great post, looks like a lot of work, too bad there wasnt an algo to do that...
Stocks are hugely overpriced - get out if you are in before 25th August.