No crash before the Fed Meeting. Dass es verboten. Potential gap down following Greece election would quickly retrace ahead of Fed Meeting in anticipation of some policy action. The Bearded One will probably say "ready to act at any given moment, blah, blah, blah."
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Exactly, thats why im looking to cash in my long VIX trade on either Thursday evening or at some point on friday, but not hold it into the weekend with the greek election. As the gamble is too much to, plus even if its anti-bailout party wins, the focus will then switch to fed and eu announcing they printing zillion pound notes to quantatively ease all of europe! However i see spanish and italian bond yields both smashing over 7% during this week in the anticipation and panic of greek election weekend, and so see down crashing 500-600points more. (So most importantly see VIV getting close to the 33-36 level before weekend with any luck)
Why Markets No Longer Rally on European Bailouts Reuters | June 11, 2012 | 06:00 PM EDT So much for the relief rally. After bouncing overnight on news that Europe had stitched together a $125 billion rescue for Spain's banks, gains for global stocks and the euro fizzled. Bailouts for debt-strapped countries have provided a short period of comfort for investors, one that quickly gets eroded by fear about Europe's vicious circle of slow or no growth and growing debt burdens. On Monday, the speed of that reversal was quicker than ever. Greece's first bailout in 2010 sparked a healthy 1.3 percent rally in the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 stock index on the following day, but subsequent rescues fostered more muted responses. The reaction after Spain's bank bailout has been the most downbeat of the lot, particularly given the size of the package and the speed with which gains were wiped out. U.S. stocks fell into negative territory within an hour of Monday's opening bell and then continued dropping. "Even the most inconsolable and bearish analysts were taken aback at how decisively markets rejected this bailout," said Richard Franulovich, currency strategist at Westpac Securities. U.S. stocks fell 1.3 percent, and the euro shed 0.2 percent, while Europe's leading index of blue-chip shares and Spain's IBEX 35 declined. The four prior bailouts â for Greece and Ireland in 2010, Portugal in 2011 and Greece again in 2012 â showed the euro's rallies fade within a month, while stocks were mixed, based on various factors. In the credit default swaps market , where investors take out insurance against the risk of sovereign default, the pattern has been similar. The cost of buying insurance against Greek, Irish or Portuguese default tended to drop after the first two weeks as investors took the bailout news as a sign of relief, only to rise back to pre-bailout levels or higher within a month. After initially falling, the cost of insuring $10 million of Spanish government debt against default rose to 595 basis points, or $595,000 per year for five years, financial information firm Markit said. That is just off a record high. Investors eager for a fix that involves more European Central Bank support and a common European bond market say Europe's piecemeal approach to the crisis is scaring markets. "We've been getting what I call 'bread crumbs,"' said James Dailey, portfolio manager of TEAM Financial Asset Management. "What we need is a comprehensive European solution. Until we see something massive from the ECB, it's not addressing the issue. The problem is not liquidity, it's solvency." Vicious Feedback Loop Investors worry that higher borrowing costs for Spain, Italy and others will shut these governments out of international capital markets entirely. Yields could rise further if a Greek election next weekend produces a government that opts to abandon the euro rather than stick to fiscal austerity, or if Spain suffers another downgrade. Markets also fear that the bank rescue will add some 10 percent to Spain's debt-to-output ratio, which is expected to near 80 percent by the end of the year. The end result could be one in which European Union leaders are forced to follow the bailout of Spanish banks with one for the Spanish government. "For the Spanish economy as a whole, there has been no debt relief," Franulovich said. "This is what happened to Ireland. The banks are in healthier shape today, but the sovereign is in real trouble." In fact, a report by Spain's central bank showed Spanish banks were the main buyers of Spanish sovereign debt last year, essentially making the government dependent on the banks it is now trying to help. "The Spanish government bails out Spanish banks, and Spanish banks bail out the Spanish government," Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told Reuters. "It's voodoo economics. It is not going to work, and it's not working." Spanish 10-year government bonds had one of their worst days in two months on Monday. The yield rose to 6.51 percent, a clear sign that the market lacks confidence in the measures taken. "Inevitably, the markets have started to look beyond Spain to other vulnerable members of the euro zone," said Gavan Nolan, Markit's director of credit research, due to fear that other countries will seek similar rescues for their banks. Of most consequence is No. 3 euro zone economy Italy, which has the world's third-largest sovereign debt market. Italy's CDS widened to 550 basis points on Monday. Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago, said the ever-growing crisis should convince policymakers to think bigger in addressing the crisis. "Investors are getting tired," he said. "There's only so much plaster you can put on a crumbling wall."
We now just all need to come together and do whatever it takes to force the VIX to spike back upto the 85-90 levels like those glorious, incredible wonderful few weeks back in autumn 2008!!!
What is going on bears? The market is green. Where is your promise of hitting bids, crashing markets, etc? Are you shitting your pants instead?
So much bad news coming out but the markets really are not selling off that hard. If fact we have seen a couple of nice up moves in the last few days. Maybe these are the lows unless something really unexpected happens over the weekend with Greece. I had expected the market to be selling off more this week before the weekend but i guess not. Probably best place to be here is in cash.