Vixology
Mixology is the art and skill of preparing mixed drinks with an almost scientific approach. Vixology is the art and skill of analyzing stock market volatility to craft systematic long or short exposure designed to produce uncorrelated returns.
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It’s Not Time Yet (opens the original)
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Thinking back on my youth, there were certain popular bands that just didn’t fully click for me. I had college buddies who would spend the summer following the Grateful Dead around the country. I needed a summer job. Pink Floyd was in heavy rotation with the kids who could afford the good weed. I was not one of them. But I circled back to both the Dead and the Floyd, the latter especially after I met Bob Ezrin who was a producer on The Wall among others. This morning, it was Time that started ba
Conditions and Signals (opens the original)
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We got a lot of notice over on X/Twitter for our chart of the High Yield Bond Cumulative Advance-Decline Line. Posted this longer-term view over there this morning. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1060" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vmQY!,w_
The Weight (opens the original)
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Let’s make one thing clear right at the top. The definitive version of The Weight has The Band joined by Pop Staples and the Staple Singers in a scene from The Last Waltz. There simply can be no disagreement on this. As I was doing the usual weekend review today, it struck me that markets are carrying a lot of weight these days. It reminded me of how ol’ Luke is waitin’ on the Judgment Day. And he’s resigned to a bad outcome when he asks his friend to take care of Miss Anna Lee. Luke is
It’s Fine (opens the original)
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We need to start this post with a couple of observations that lie outside the volatility complex. So not to bury the lede, investors are looking past a bunch of bad breadth in equity markets. This first chart shows the McClellan Summation Index for the NYSE. Top pane is the S&P 500. The middle pane is $NYSI and it would suggest that bad things are happening to stocks. Except that’s not the case right now. Sideways chop, sure, but nothing bearish. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href
Same Old Blues (opens the original)
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Equity futures are in a punk mood again this morning after a bad show yesterday that is generally being blamed on a spike in interest rates. Dialing in to a 30-minute chart shows how we have climbed up one side earlier in the week only to be giving it back the last two days. Made me think of J. J. Cale and I Got The Same Old Blues. The man created his own category of Okie Funk Blues. I revisit his catalog regularly. Many people know Eric Clapton’s version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watc
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