The euro strengthened(1)
The dxy weakened (2)
I expect a pop in the indexes (3) on the open
its all currencies doing this
But keep an eye on the 30y (blue) its going up. Everything follows the 30y eventually. A swap coming to correct today
In between everything else in this "market" you are working against:
a) cb money games
b) corp malfeasance
c) supply shock
d) rising interest rates
e) vol sellers slurping theta
f) fintwit "influencers"
g) cnbc shills
And know that i am of the strong opinion you must do swaps, ideally iron condors or at least butterfly's to protect from theta decay and rot of vix due to swaps.
See here - notice the vix vs dxy
Its not TIGHT correlation but there seems to be influence.
U don no when swaps hit
Another observation - say you have a loan on a 10m office building.
you got the loan at 2%.
Well that sucks rn cause interest rates are way higher.
So, you want the arb on the interest rate - so you "swap" interest rate w/ higher, and they pay lower.
Banksters will bankster.
sorry - spreads
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The vix controls inflation &deflation in the stonk.
It also helps to control inflation in certain commodities (those that r produced domestically) where it stimulates inflation in commodities that r not produced domestically.
There r analogue measures for the vix.
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lets start with the simple one - dxy, a basket of g7 currencies....
There has traditionally been a somewhat strong correlation btw dxy and the vix - that correlation was broken march 2022...see if you can see why....
As the fed lifted rates, it crushed stonk because its better to just buy bonds.
The banks blew up and we off to the races with vix crush - the fed is desperately trying to get yields up to slow demand as OPEC cuts production (remember -no more spr to suck down)investopedia.com/terms/b/blacks…
Why is MBS a pariah and Putin must not remain in power? Why did Gadaffi and Saddam have to die?
Because of Oil.
Oil is inflation.
Inflation is any countries Achilles heel - in particular in US and in particular for oil.
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The carry trade helps smooth out oil shocks. But when Putin - after warning for months Ukraine could never be part of NATO - invaded Ukraine the carry trade wasn't enuf to suppress oil volatility.
Biden tried to smooth the markets by selling off the US strategic petroleum reserve and g7 central banks tried to up the carry trade.