Unrigged...
Just as stocks dipped after the opening squeeze and as the afternoon began.. and again into the close... VIX was rammed lower in an awkwardly-timed "well it must be a fat finger" trade that sparked a rebound in the all-time-high trending stock market.
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But note the closing ramp did not work...
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It appears more than a few were aggressively buying protection ahead of tomorrow's FOMC minutes.
Charts: Bloomberg
