by confoundedinterest17 With global central banks like The Federal Reserve, pumping trillions into global markets, it is not surprising that we are seeing almost violent changes in asset prices like gold, silver, Bitcoin and … GameStop? Now THAT’S volatility!!! Welcome to …
by northmantrader The final phase of a bull cycle is the most deceiving. It is the time when things are at their best, optimism runs wild, equities can do no wrong and any warning signs are dismissed as equity price action …
by Jesse Colombo At the end of 2018, the global financial markets were reeling, the S&P 500 briefly fell into official bear market territory, and fear gauges were spiking. Sure enough, the Fed started to panic and backpedal on its previously hawkish …
by jessefelder There are a number of factors that make the current mania in risk assets unique. Most notable may be the breadth of extreme overvaluation not just within the equity market but across a number of other asset classes. The …
via @chigrl: Official says banks safer since stricter rules but implications for market liquidity are worrying https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/50553c1a-5bd6-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Our research team, at Technical Traders Ltd. alerted us to a Fibonacci technical pattern that is setting up in the US stock market right now. This pattern suggests that volatility will increase dramatically over the next …
Authored by Andreas Steno Larsen via Nordea Bank, The short positioning in VIX is heavier than prior to the February and October sell-offs, which is why we are on alert to a new potential squeeze of volatility positions. From the …
by Dana Lyons The volatility market gave a head’s up ahead of the recent stock market dip — but has the dip run its course…or is there more to come? Stocks got out of the gate like gangbusters again to begin …
by confoundedinterest17 The US Treasury yield curved inverted on Friday for the first time since 2007 and it became ever more inverted today as 10-year T-Note Volatility spiked. Investors are taking large bets on the leveraged VIX note with inflows the …
https://twitter.com/Simple_Trends/status/1106253534058762243 $VX_F $TVIX Close the gap at 12.90 $VX_F & back to the highs? can we explain the vol. suppression with a gap? 🧐@b_seagle @hks55 pic.twitter.com/Ueegi8SJ9l — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) March 14, 2019 Fit this $VIX chart too. h/t @TaviCosta pic.twitter.com/jpUByQR9F2 …
by confoundedinterest European bond volatility (according to the Merrill Lynch 3-month EUR option volatility estimate) has plunged to the lowest level on record. A similar chart for the US bond market is the Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate for 3-months …
By Lance Gaitan Some of those shutdown-delayed economic reports are finally coming in. The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) should have most economic reports updated by the end of April. Last Friday, the BEA released the …
via Bloomberg: The renewed rally in U.S. equities has left volatility markets showing little concern that the good times will end any time soon. Recession models beg to differ. Wells Fargo’s model — which draws on the spread between three-month …
via visualcapitalist: In 2018, the re-emergence of volatility took many market participants by surprise. After all, aside from a few smaller, intermittent spikes over the course of the current bull market, volatility has largely been in a long-term downtrend since the …
via thefinancialcourier: The stock market has been a roller coaster since October. Equities took a nose-dive in October. They then rallied in early November. Fell again steeply in December. Finally, stocks rallied strongly in January. However, the same market forces that knocked stocks …
via northmantrader: Mella sent the post below to clients earlier in the month and highlights a critically important charting lesson: How to utilize $VIX and other volatility products to signal not only coming risk moves but also to identify key market turning …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The post-Christmas stock rally extended through Wednesday as the small-cap and tech stocks led the way, with the Russell 2000 up 14.3% and the Nasdaq up 12.5%. The SPX and Dow are up 10.4% and 10.1% …
via moneymetals: Keith Weiner: Uncle Sam’s Debt-Money System Is Immoral, Tantamount to Theft https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-190104-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up we’ll hear a truly fascinating interview with …
via MarketWatch: Nancy Davis, the chief investment officer and founder of advisory firm Quadratic Capital, garnered attention back in October 2017 when she predicted that a preternatural period of placidity in the stock market was about to come to an ugly end. …
From Kitco: A mix of geopolitical and economic uncertainties will likely create the perfect storm for precious metals and miners next year, said Brent Cook of Exploration Insights… Continue reading at Kitco…
A stock market roller coaster on par with that of a decade ago is back, and essentially for the same reasons. No, not just economic fundamentals involving back-breaking debt, corporate profligacies and geopolitical risks, but because said volatility and the …
by Kimble Charting Whether the Dow is down nearly 20% from the highs of a few months ago or it experiences a 1,000 point rally, what should one do to give proper perspective to these big price moves we’ve experienced of …
Many investors are surprised when the stock market changes trend. Yet, change has been the only constant throughout the market’s history. Even the “big boys” on Wall Street get caught off-guard. Consider the stock market’s 2018 jump in volatility … …
by FS FS Insider recently spoke with the Chris Whalen, Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors LLC and editor of The Institutional Risk Analyst. Whalen discusses the big move in high yield spreads, tightening liquidity, and preparations for a credit bust (see Large Funds …
the entire world is panicking pic.twitter.com/jYx6TJJkpG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 4, 2018 https://twitter.com/xiscan1/status/1070017959119282176 The Treasury Department's cash In recent days – around 340 billion USD, by the end of the year should stand at 441 billion USDThis means that 70 …
by Dana Lyons Despite a more than 2% jump in the S&P 500, short-term volatility expectations unprecedentedly closed higher on the day. Yesterday saw traders (more likely, computers) push stocks sharply higher on the heels of an apparently more dovish Fed. …
by Jesse Colombo In early October, when the U.S. stock market had reached an all-time high and investor sentiment was extremely complacent, I published a warning in Forbes called “Why Another Market Volatility Surge Is Likely Ahead.” I showed three indicators that …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors October was at it again last week. After Wednesday’s close, the S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average and small-cap Russell 2000 Index had all erased their gains for 2018, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBZGEjIodAk The stock market’s big jump in volatility in recent weeks caught many hedge fund managers and deep-pocketed speculators by surprise. But EWI subscribers were prepared. Learn why this chart played a big role in the preparation.
by John Rubino McAlvany: Get ready for “epic volatility” … Max Keiser on Trump’s winning streak … Mike Maloney on the coming global margin call … Brien Lundin: Expect gold sp;