Mixed Messages

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On Monday, one could be forgiven – – especially if that person was of a bearish disposition – – to be feeling like this:

In chart after chart after chart, we had an honest-to-God key support failure (tinted in magenta), yet by the time Thursday rolled around, the Fed-powered buying had completely fucked the goddamned thing up negated the failure.

spx
S&P 500 Index
comp
Dow Jones Composite
indu
Dow Jones Industrial Average
oil
Oil Index

This action, of course, completely torpedoed the VIX, which had exploded overnight from the teens almost up to 30, but by Thursday had been smashed down to the lows from the prior week. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

slopechart VIX

If you’re starting to feel like you’re losing your mind, you are far from alone.