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Crowded Trades DO End in Tears
Our theme of crowded trades getting killed continues. We have been writing about the VIX shorts (and other short volatility…
Our theme of crowded trades getting killed continues. We have…
Helloween
Equities have crashed. Geopolitics are scary, Trade wars are scary, Credit concerns are scary, Italy is scary, Economy is scary,…
Equities have crashed. Geopolitics are scary, Trade wars are scary,…
Look Beyond the (fearful) Crowd
Equity markets are catching an early bid today. Our theme of slightly contrarian trades and being able to see beyond…
Equity markets are catching an early bid today. Our theme…
Know your VIX (and correlations)
Markets continue to be rather volatile, but are people pricing in too much fear? Below is just a quick comparison…
Markets continue to be rather volatile, but are people pricing…
Fear the Fear?
Markets continue moving extremely fast, mostly down, but the spike higher in Europe today so far is as extreme as…
Markets continue moving extremely fast, mostly down, but the spike…
Do not confuse pace with direction
It has been a long day full of wild moves in equity markets. Below is the chart of the Euro…
It has been a long day full of wild moves…
Hammer Time
Yesterday we saw rather extreme moves in the US indices. The day started with futures drifting lower. This was then…
Yesterday we saw rather extreme moves in the US indices.…
Gold as a Global fear Hedge
Author: Aleksandar Adamovic We have been covering the theme of crowded trades lately. One of the more crowded trades has…
Author: Aleksandar Adamovic We have been covering the theme of…
Crowded Trades often End in Tears
One of the themes we have been covering on Ask Brokers lately is the “extreme” positioning across assets. In early…
One of the themes we have been covering on Ask…
“Volare” in Italy Spreads to Spain
It didn’t take long for the Italian “budget saga crisis” to resurface as a hot topic for the markets. During…
It didn’t take long for the Italian “budget saga crisis”…
Inverse Panic
Author: Aleksandar Adamovic We have seen some huge moves in markets over past 24 hours. We wrote how extreme positioning…
Author: Aleksandar Adamovic We have seen some huge moves in…
Gold – Extreme Positioning Strikes Again
Author Aleksandar Adamovic We pointed out that Gold was starting to show signs of life a few days ago, and…
Author Aleksandar Adamovic We pointed out that Gold was starting…
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