For the first time since mid-August, the VIX has been smashed down into the teens.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Super Elevated
It’s been nearly three hours since the CPI report came out, and the market just doesn’t know what to do with itself. As I am typing these words, the /ES is unchanged, the /NQ is down, the /RTY is up, and every one of them looks like an EKG printout. Lest you think that the market is a bar-goon right now, kindly look at the percentage of stocks above their 200-day moving average. It’s awfully damned high:
Perfect NFLX Gap Fill
Just bought June $350 puts.
Emerging Touch
The massive rally since mid-October has yielded a perfect touch on the broken trendline for the emerging markets fund EEM:
