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stlwater wrote:As tantalizing as a long VIX play is going to be... A word of caution. I remembered some funny stuff with the VIX a while back before the 2011 correction (if I cared to do the research I could look back at the TZA message board because it was folks there who got hit). So I did a little digging, sure enough I found what I was looking for. This one is a shocker and I think someone should have gone to prison for it... Check out what happened to TVIX when the trendline we are about to encounter was hit. On the zoomed out view it is the area enclosed in the grey circle. On the zoomed in comparison the day is market with a vertical red line. Needless to say this reeeaaalllly screwed some people and made absolutely no sense whatsoever other than someone wanted to make sure Credit Suisse didn't have to pay out. You'll see the same price action on XIV (inverted of course) while the VIX itself did not have any such reaction. Should have been a class action lawsuit IMHO.
Looking back I think there may have been a R/S which MAY account for the selling. A sneaky play nonetheless.
Last time that happened, BPNYA had enjoyed an extended bullish run and was setting up to turn bearish. This time, its been bearish for a while and about to make a bullish cross, which warns of even higher prices!stlwater wrote:A major sell signal IS possible today since we have an open above the daily BB on SPX and an open below the daily BB on the VIX as well. Let's pray the bears can pull it off.
II has bullish sentiment at extremes for 4 weeks now..DellGriffith wrote:Last time that happened, BPNYA had enjoyed an extended bullish run and was setting up to turn bearish. This time, its been bearish for a while and about to make a bullish cross, which warns of even higher prices!stlwater wrote:A major sell signal IS possible today since we have an open above the daily BB on SPX and an open below the daily BB on the VIX as well. Let's pray the bears can pull it off.