1/7

The old trader adage is to "never short a dull market," As this chart shows, this now applies to bitcoin.

Realized volatility (that is, backward or actual volatility) is at a 2+ year low and one of the lowest readings ever. Image
2/7

Bitcoins' price is trending sideways (black rectangle) leading to falling volatility. Image
3/7

Never short a dull market might really apply for ETH.

Post-merge, and post-merge hype, its realized volatility has collapsed to its lowest reading in at least 5+ years. Image
4/7

ETH's price has literally fallen asleep (black rectangle) in the last month or so.

No movement = record low volatility. Image
5/7

But what is NOT a dull market and should not be lumped into the same category as the two charts above is the S&P 500.

Its realized volatility is a very high reading relative to the last 10 years. Image
6/7

Markets bottom on apathy, not excitement. BTC and ETH have apathy.

The S&P 500 is nearly the opposite, as prices move around like a video game.

This might also be another sign of the TradFi/Crypto tight relationship breaking

If so, this is long-run bullish for crypto. Image
7/7

"Institutional adoption" of crypto in the last few years has not been good. Crypto has become a high-beta version of the S&P 500.

The real bull story in crypto is it represents something more/different than high beta stocks.

Diverging volatility might signal this change.
Contrarians note ...

Many of the replies to this thread are getting a fair amount of pushback... I'm pumping my bags, the next move is to $8k, and so on.

If you are bullish, this is better than everyone agreeing a moon is coming.

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1/13

@NateSilver538 on why his models were not showing a Republican surge, like bettors.

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His answer ... "political betting markets sometimes aren’t that smart." and ... "traders don’t have a lot of technical sophistication about election forecasting."
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Like those CEOs, this line of reasoning blew up last week ... again.
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Before I go further, let me stipulate that I'm a big fan of @NateSilver538 and @FiveThirtyEight and think their models are great.

But as British statistician George E.P. Box famously wrote “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_model…
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1/4

The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index is now down a staggering 21% YTD (right). It made yet another new low on Friday. For comparison, the S&P is down 23% on a total return basis.

This equates to a market value loss of above $14T (left), from ~$69T to~$55T. ImageImage
2/4

The Bloomberg US Aggregate Index, the bond market's version of the S&P 500, is down 15.84% through Friday, and also on a new low for the year.

Data goes back to 1976, and nothing remotely close has happened to this index before. (Left)

Market value loss is $2.3T (Right) ImageImage
3/4

Here is the chart of the Merrill Options Volatility Estimate or MOVE Index. Think of it as the VIX of the bond market.

It remains at some of the highest levels ever recorded. Such levels always coincide with problems (labeled).

Bonds remain at highly stressed levels. Image
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Oct 14
1/5

Biden yesterday:

“Today’s report shows some progress in the fight against higher prices, even as we have more work to do. Inflation over the last three months has averaged 2%, at an annualized rate. That’s down from 11% in the prior quarter,”

This is 100% correct
2/5

But it neglects to mention that energy (essential gasoline) is a big reason for this decline above.
3/5

So, when you look at inflation less energy, it was still running at a 6.75% pace in Q3.
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1/4

If you are asking when the Fed will moon stocks again, via printing, and when will this happen and push BTC to $70k ...

This era is over. See my feed today, a couple of threads on this.
2/4

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3/4

I believe crypto will find this use case, via DECENTRALISED payments. But first, CeFi Crypto, like Binance and SOL, all the Terra-related blowups, might have to go away or truly decentralise.
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1/9

Yesterday I went over the RRP program. In today's thread, how does it relate to QT.

Bottom line, the Fed is hoping QT will cause short rates to rise, "encouraging" RRP to flow back into banks and "offset" the QT liquidity drain.

That's the theory

2/9

First, what is QE? The Fed creates money (also known as "printing"). How?

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1/12

Lots of confusion about the Fed's Reverse Repurchase Program (RRP).

What is it? What does it mean?

Waller's comments from a few days ago are important and will be addressed later in this thread.

No pivot ... EVER!

h/t @FedGuy12 @NickTimiraos

2/12

RRP is simply, it is an overnight loan from the NY
Fed (lender), or a Reverse Repurchase. For the financial institution (borrower) it is a Repurchase agreement, known as a repo.

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Why not park your money with the NY Fed with little hassle, zero counter-party risk, and good rates?
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