Market Structure Insights
April 15, 2020
I rest my case, and it only took 15 years. On Dec 29, 2009, we wrote in this very blog we’d then been clattering off the keyboard since 2006: “Now, why would you care about Iron Condors, IROs and execs? Because once again something besides...
April 8, 2020
I know this Friday will be good. I’ll let you think about that one. By the way, markets are closed then. For a decade we’ve written about the way the stock market has disconnected from reality. Nothing lays bare the truth like a Pandemic. More...
April 1, 2020
DoubleLine’s famed Jeff Gundlach says we’ll take out March lows in stocks because the market is dysfunctional. Karen and I have money at DoubleLine through managed accounts with advisors. Mr. Gundlach is a smart man. Maybe it’s splitting hairs if I say the stock market...
March 25, 2020
All 20 biggest points-losses for Dow Jones Industrials (DJIA) stocks in history have occurred under Regulation National Market System. And 18 occurred from 2018-2020. Fifteen of the 20 biggest points-gains are in the last two years too, with all save one, in Mar 2000, under...
March 18, 2020
In crises I think of Winston Churchill who said, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Let’s start now with lessons from a health crisis that became a market...
March 13, 2020
My email inbox took such a fusillade of stock volatility halts yesterday that I set two rules to sort them automatically. Emails rained in well after the close, girders triggered hours before and stuck in an overwhelmed system. As I write, volatility halts Mon-Thu this...