Thursday, March 3, 2016

Setting Up The Last Flash Crash

Covering all shorts ahead of history's biggest collapse is a necessary and sufficient condition for rapid implosion...

Equal weight / cap weight ratio
Wall Street's favourite pair trade was long S&P, short Russell small cap. That just imploded...



This has been the biggest short-covering rally since 2009. All of Wall Street's favourite shorts just got extreme unwound while myriad hedge funds got blown up, before, during and after. Bears are being steamrolled by dumbfucks eager to bankrupt themselves.  

The most shorted ETF is Semiconductors, which have had another good run...



The left-for-dead shipping industry had its biggest % rally since S&P wave 4 (of 5) in 2009. The only problem is that wave 4 is near the bottom, whereas wave 2 (current) is near the top...



Resource stocks, same idea...


Casinos...


Pipelines


Brazil


Canadian $


Freeport McMoran (Mining company):