Too Bullish? “Echoes of the 1987 Crash." Barrons warns of a Black Monday 2.0: A machine-driven market meltdown.

“Echoes of the 1987 Crash." Barrons warns of a Black Monday 2.0: A machine-driven market meltdown. https://t.co/ECyz0TurVE pic.twitter.com/P4CfFyaFx2 — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) October 15, 2017 The PROLIFERATION of COMPUTER-DRIVEN INVESTING has created an illusion that RISK can be measured and …

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Can Stocks Avoid Unlucky (Year) Number 7?

by Dana Lyons The 4th quarter of years ending in “7? have historically exhibited the stock market’s worst quarterly performance of the decadal cycle. Exactly 3 months ago, we published a post highlighting what we discovered to be serially poor historical performance …

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Global Markets: Never before has price ascension been this uni-directional with volatility this compressed and flatlined. There has always never been this much central bank intervention. There is no market history for this to continue.

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/918389272301973504 The $VIX’s corollary, the inverse $XIV, embarked on an explosive near one way journey since the US election coinciding with over $2 trillion central bank intervention in just the first 9 months of 2017… Tech rally stall? @TgMacro sees …

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