This article is behind a paywall. But the headline provides the key point: Liquidity of the E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts is shrinking – hit hard after the two volatility shocks …
Good News on the Data Front
Long gone are the days when the exchanges made the bulk of their money from trading. These days, the exchanges make the bulk of their profits from data. And my guess …
Underdogs Win
With the Super Bowl being the largest betting event in the US, this seems appropriate. You’ll love having these hated stocks in your portfolio Trading is like betting against the …
Emerging Markets Since October 30
Emerging Markets (green line) beating both the S&P 500 (purple) and the Euro Stoxx 50 (orange). With so many people betting on risk-off environment, it’s pretty counterintuitive that the riskiest …
VIX Implied Volatility is Very Low
VIX has come down from its recent peak. But the real story to me is what’s going on in the VIX options market. In the recent past, whenever VIX shot …
Breadth Thrust
This is a chart going back more than 50 years showing signals generated by an indicator developed by the late, great Marty Zweig. The indicator is a measure of market …
Be Careful What You Wish For
Money managers that hoped for more volatility so as to improve their chances of beating the market appear to have been severely disappointed when the volatility finally arrived. As this …
“Don’t Fight the Fed”
In the immortal words of Marty Zweig, “Don’t Fight the Fed”. And the markets didn’t, which is why oil, lumber, interest rates and stocks all cratered to Powell’s tin-eared comment …
Mr. Powell Gets a Surprise
This awesome chart (courtesy of MetaStock) showing the Citigroup Economic Surprise Index for the G10. These indices compare actual data to Bloomberg Survey expectations. They have Economic Surprise indices for …
Lumber Liquidation
It’s not just oil that got hammered last year. Just think what has to be going on in the economy for a price collapse of that magnitude to have happened. …
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