Extreme Fear. Market Says Otherwise.
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Larry "Big Short" Burry BEARISH
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"Former death metal drummer turned market doomsayer. Predicts crashes using tea leaves and charts. His glass eye sees the future, and it's always red."
Fear & Greed at a chilling 11, yet S&P climbs for the third day. Clearly someone skipped their market psychology class.
Today’s market served up quite the paradox. The S&P 500 rose by 0.81% to hit 6946.13, marking its third consecutive up session. The NASDAQ wasn’t slacking either, climbing by an even more impressive 1.26%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones and Russell 2000 added modest gains of 0.63% and 0.41%, respectively. All of this despite a Fear & Greed Index entrenched in Extreme Fear at a paltry 11 out of 100.
Now let’s talk about what everyone is ignoring: VIX sits at a mild unease level of 17.9, shedding over 8% today — almost as if everyone decided to skip panic altogether for some reason best known to them and perhaps their therapists. Yet here we are with stocks green across the board and nerves seemingly absent from the room.
And then there’s crypto doing its own thing as usual, with Bitcoin skyrocketing by nearly 8% to $69,114, while Ethereum surged over an eye-popping 13%. It’s like they got the same memo but read it backwards compared to equities. This kind of divergence might suggest that risk appetite is alive and well in cryptoland despite traditional markets playing cautious games or maybe just reading different horoscopes today.
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AMD dipped by a less-than-impressive -1.39%. For a company that thrives on semiconductors, you’d think they’d have better insulation against the market’s winter chills. But nope, not today AMD — your chips might be fast but your stock’s slow on uptake these days it seems.
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"With VIX at a neutral-ish state of 17.9 and extreme fear hanging over like a dark cloud at an index level of just eleven, I'd wager we haven't seen the end of volatility just yet in either direction actually — an unexpected move is likely brewing under these calm surfaces because nothing says 'prepared' like today's mixed signals."
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