Yesterday was a weird day throughout the board, from market worth motion to some unusual Q&A with Powell within the Senate to Broadcom’s (NASDAQ:) weird post- worth motion. There are just a few days the place you possibly can say – ‘yeah, nothing made sense.’

Wanting ahead to in the present day’s now.

I imply, first, there was an in a single day buying and selling session that noticed the futures fall fairly a bit, solely to see them mysteriously rally beginning round 3 a.m. on no information in anyway—or any that I may discover.

From the low at 3 a.m. to the excessive at 2 p.m., the rallied by nearly 2.5%, actually for no good cause aside from the truth that it seems that the inventory market has formally become a hyper-casino.

As well as, we noticed the unfold between a 1-month 90% moneyness and 110% cash Nvidia (NASDAQ:) choices fall to -5.1 in the present day, the widest unfold over the previous two years.

Meaning IV for a ten% upside in Nvidia is increased than for a ten% draw back. Perhaps traders are actually pricing not solely the GPUs Nvidia is promoting however all of the ailments and cures AI will resolve sometime.

Within the meantime, the 3-month implied correlation index hits its lowest degree ever in the present day.

These simply don’t really feel like stuff you usually see during times of level-headed pondering and really feel rather more like one thing of a manic nature.

In fact, Broadcom, whose inventory has surged 70% because the starting of November, reported what I assumed have been essentially the most unimpressive outcomes given the run and missed estimates on its semiconductor phase after which offered inline steerage, with nothing particular talked about on the convention name.

It’s shocking to see that shares have solely fallen a mere 3% when we’ve seen shares punished far worse for what appeared like first rate numbers.

Perhaps that can change in the present day. I don’t know, however the worth motion we’re seeing at present appears unstable. It might go on for longer, however none of this appears regular, and I’ve seen some weird issues over the previous 30 years.

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