Dumb money is back! Dip buyers going batshit crazy with call options. So much greed so much fomo

by BoatSurfer600

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Dip buyers going batshit crazy with call options. So much greed so much fomo pic.twitter.com/IlpXWSWOwI

— Sauxy (@SPXplunger) August 4, 2022

totally normal behavior https://t.co/zQBFKHuyHY

— Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) August 5, 2022

Cycle timing: In the '01 and '08 cycles, the real #recession (rising #unemployment) did not start till after the Fed had broken something and stopped hiking. Its at this time we see the ISM services really deteriorate. But in past thats been 19-36 mths after hikes started. 2/5

— Andy West (@HedgeQuartersHQ) August 4, 2022

Delays: the 19-36mths delay from hikes to unemployment might be different this time. By Dec we will already have hiked as much as a normal 2-3yr hike cycle in only 10 mths. That compresses this cycle and points to Q1 23 as the employment crunch. What of equities? 4/5

— Andy West (@HedgeQuartersHQ) August 4, 2022

Hard to see the Fed less hawkish as aggregate labor income continues to climb at 9% (jobs * hours * wages). There are distributional issues for sure, but if large portions of the economy have more money they can afford to pay higher prices. Fed hikes to 4%+ and stays there, imv. pic.twitter.com/aK6yFAvAjA

— Ira Jersey, US Fixed Income (@IraFJersey) August 5, 2022

Probability that we see 125bps of tightening by November spiked after that jobs report! pic.twitter.com/4FTtB5Ac7c

— Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) (@SpecialSitsNews) August 5, 2022

In 2008, after Bear Stearns, we bounced into May and came within a few % of the highs. At that lower high, the relief was palpable, and I remember PMs telling me that BSC was the sacrificial lamb because they hadn’t played ball back in 1998 and didn’t bail out LTCM…
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— Paulo Macro (@PauloMacro) August 4, 2022

When do the large lenders start going bankrupt? https://t.co/7x5v7Yer5L

— Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 4, 2022

$spx today vs 2008 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/bBMcYP9xtk

— Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) August 4, 2022

Shot. Chaser. pic.twitter.com/RiNA0do2VB

— Michael Goodwell (@MichaelGoodwell) August 4, 2022

Someone call the doctor! pic.twitter.com/xV4NyeB4Nn

— Vlad (@VladTheInflator) August 4, 2022

This is not oil, a meme stock or even a scam. It’s the average new home price in America pic.twitter.com/Hn6JvlECLR

— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) August 3, 2022

this market is wild pic.twitter.com/arsEQw0f8Q

— Arun S. Chopra CFA CMT🧐 (@FusionptCapital) August 5, 2022

Opposed to 2020 when both the VIX and market volumes skyrocketed. Individual investors have largely stayed the course and remained over-invested in stocks going into recession.