The massive COVID stimuli and the Ukraine war have brought inflation that most of us have never experienced. The price of money, interest rates, have gone up aggressively since last year. I did underestimate the inflation shoot up as the FED but there are a few things we need...
Back in July 2021 and May 2021, I wrote : "I believe that COVID 19 has unleashed the full power of the BTFD mind set. It is so powerful that it could become an unprecedent FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) wave. A race which could push indices with relative...
2022 first half has been quite harsh to many investors. Inflation readings are high with Bonds and Equities prices punishing most. One of the great frustration has been the lack of true volatility explosion. In fact equity volatility, VIX has been quite stable. The black line is the 6 months...
Just a few ones.... I have focused quite a bit on the US equity market in previous posts, since it has been the lone World leader since 2008. It remains the leader, in relative terms. The US equity mkt has been the excess liquidity recipient. However, the derivatives mkt is...
I have highlighted in previous posts that since 2008, the sole game in town has been the US stock market and in particular the Nasdaq 100 index. We can observe many distortions and one of them is that cash market actions has become somehow the derivative of the derivatives...
