"Summers is out" exuberance appears to have been trumped by "the exchanges are down again" bull$hit. The moment that OPRA data dissemination ceased and exchanges began declaring self-help, the major indices began to plunge (as did AAPL even more to -2.5%). The Treasury complex is twisted with the belly -9bps and the long-end yields up 3bps (but that is compressing a little as equities give up their gains)... The total outage of all options exchanges is seen below from Nanex... [3]

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and AAPL did the same (after being dead for 40 minutes)...

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Treasuries are rallyng as stocks fade... (though clearly the flattening is evident)...

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and from Nanex - the 12 minutes of options silence... via Nanex [3]

Total Option Outage

On September 16 at 13:30:39.549 option trades and quotes ceased across
the board. The came back briefly for a few minutes, then went silent.

1. OPRA - each of the 48 multicast lines that carry option quotes and trades..
Trades appear almost 2 seconds after quotes, and after trades from other exchanges.
Something got stuck.

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