Bonds Away!!!

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Today WOULD have been quite interesting, had it not been for the damned buy-the-dip crowd. One area, however, that’s really starting to break down (and which I’ve mentioned with increasing frequency on my tastytrade show) is high yield bonds. Check this out:

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Indeed, the HYG and SPY are diverging quite nicely:

slopechart_HYG,SPY

Anyway, like I said, the day started off great……..but, Jesus Christ on a pita biscuit, there is NO selloff permitted more than two or three *(#*(*)#*(#*)#%&(@ hours in this stupid “market” we pretend to be trading, so (courtesy of our friends at ZH:)