Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday

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A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs. So ...

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“sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks)”. this takes some effort to understand. but for informed investors, doesnt matter which direction the market goes, then can still make money
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What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5952936,"gmtCreate":1632271761270,"gmtModify":1663234241135,"authorId":3577415925422402,"author":{"id":3577415925422402,"idStr":"3577415925422402","authorId":3577415925422402,"name":"Roykhor77","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dceebb2c02d2b0c1df8a4c7c7ebba8d9","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869138978,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"NIce!","text":"NIce!","html":"NIce!"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869195533,"gmtCreate":1632265578522,"gmtModify":1676530736398,"author":{"id":"3581895153736016","authorId":"3581895153736016","name":"aibee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3a01aa497813f2bf89ee264cf6292ab","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3581895153736016","idStr":"3581895153736016"},"htmlText":"[財迷]&nbsp;","listText":"[財迷]&nbsp;","text":"[財迷]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869195533","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":869196244,"gmtCreate":1632265454488,"gmtModify":1676530736338,"author":{"id":"3586939439858903","authorId":"3586939439858903","name":"ASMH","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8c22c3127769d9bb7b4e8d291d98433","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3586939439858903","idStr":"3586939439858903"},"htmlText":"Like&nbsp;","listText":"Like&nbsp;","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":4,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869196244","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5996334,"gmtCreate":1632610850051,"gmtModify":1663234448940,"authorId":3586939439858903,"author":{"id":3586939439858903,"idStr":"3586939439858903","authorId":3586939439858903,"name":"ASMH","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8c22c3127769d9bb7b4e8d291d98433","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869196244,"type":1,"supId":5951320,"prevId":0,"content":"Like","text":"Like","html":"Like"},{"id":5975390,"gmtCreate":1632438284483,"gmtModify":1663234350531,"authorId":3586939439858903,"author":{"id":3586939439858903,"idStr":"3586939439858903","authorId":3586939439858903,"name":"ASMH","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8c22c3127769d9bb7b4e8d291d98433","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869196244,"type":1,"supId":5951320,"prevId":0,"content":"Like","text":"Like","html":"Like"},{"id":5951066,"gmtCreate":1632265823038,"gmtModify":1634789829016,"authorId":3582186770863797,"author":{"id":3582186770863797,"idStr":"3582186770863797","authorId":3582186770863797,"name":"Pschoa","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6048d8c3ccf7b9e4abd018d7a405e329","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869196244,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Hi","text":"Hi","html":"Hi"},{"id":5951320,"gmtCreate":1632266620903,"gmtModify":1634789804824,"authorId":3570922030489337,"author":{"id":3570922030489337,"idStr":"3570922030489337","authorId":3570922030489337,"name":"GeorgeOr","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/590cc7dd964e0cf6e057302728902b7b","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869196244,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>ok</u>","text":"<u>ok</u>","html":"<u>ok</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869198714,"gmtCreate":1632265441138,"gmtModify":1676530736312,"author":{"id":"3572502301692301","authorId":"3572502301692301","name":"FU5591","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a0762ea32f762ec6978abe3695419890","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3572502301692301","idStr":"3572502301692301"},"htmlText":"oh","listText":"oh","text":"oh","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869198714","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869198933,"gmtCreate":1632265405722,"gmtModify":1676530736294,"author":{"id":"3578561847510900","authorId":"3578561847510900","name":"GoodnRich","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3578561847510900","idStr":"3578561847510900"},"htmlText":"[Glance]&nbsp;","listText":"[Glance]&nbsp;","text":"[Glance]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869198933","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869198077,"gmtCreate":1632265400299,"gmtModify":1676530736294,"author":{"id":"3579591519090572","authorId":"3579591519090572","name":"El_Nino","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6b1b731af69caf76640812930188d9d2","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3579591519090572","idStr":"3579591519090572"},"htmlText":"Like lls","listText":"Like lls","text":"Like lls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869198077","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869104328,"gmtCreate":1632265073764,"gmtModify":1676530735962,"author":{"id":"3579420890541030","authorId":"3579420890541030","name":"alex90b","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6caf16fa1b6029c0bd555a9dafd6173f","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3579420890541030","idStr":"3579420890541030"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869104328","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869379367,"gmtCreate":1632263834659,"gmtModify":1676530735627,"author":{"id":"3571345352614779","authorId":"3571345352614779","name":"xiaobaii","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3571345352614779","idStr":"3571345352614779"},"htmlText":"like and comment please, thank you very much&nbsp;","listText":"like and comment please, thank you very much&nbsp;","text":"like and comment please, thank you very much","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869379367","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5950875,"gmtCreate":1632265071395,"gmtModify":1663234232852,"authorId":3568945952613347,"author":{"id":3568945952613347,"idStr":"3568945952613347","authorId":3568945952613347,"name":"Wenyin","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4514fca637e841ecdc7c46d694823f67","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869379367,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869342297,"gmtCreate":1632263322719,"gmtModify":1676530735474,"author":{"id":"4090418903913760","authorId":"4090418903913760","name":"FatKid","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/f6692ab34697d0d2f7947fa3f34c6421","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"4090418903913760","idStr":"4090418903913760"},"htmlText":"Pros indeed","listText":"Pros indeed","text":"Pros indeed","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869342297","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5950593,"gmtCreate":1632263840572,"gmtModify":1663234232362,"authorId":3571345352614779,"author":{"id":3571345352614779,"idStr":"3571345352614779","authorId":3571345352614779,"name":"xiaobaii","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869342297,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"like and comment please, thank you very much ","text":"like and comment please, thank you very much ","html":"like and comment please, thank you very much "}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869349878,"gmtCreate":1632262662394,"gmtModify":1676530735221,"author":{"id":"4092554906611330","authorId":"4092554906611330","name":"Samuel123win","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fb615bd9d23d3ee707625d59ccb06f5e","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c5ceab71416b120bab4604c0754b52a","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"4092554906611330","idStr":"4092554906611330"},"htmlText":"?","listText":"?","text":"?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869349878","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5950595,"gmtCreate":1632263848480,"gmtModify":1663234233145,"authorId":3571345352614779,"author":{"id":3571345352614779,"idStr":"3571345352614779","authorId":3571345352614779,"name":"xiaobaii","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869349878,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"like and comment please, thank you very much ","text":"like and comment please, thank you very much ","html":"like and comment please, thank you very much "}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869324259,"gmtCreate":1632260786771,"gmtModify":1676530734922,"author":{"id":"3570342809089528","authorId":"3570342809089528","name":"phantom74","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c87ef2af41b8696be86cceafb5b5723d","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0a2963eb37c60c5d6d4a8dbcd266952","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3570342809089528","idStr":"3570342809089528"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869324259","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5950516,"gmtCreate":1632263340835,"gmtModify":1663234230145,"authorId":3575890735190983,"author":{"id":3575890735190983,"idStr":"3575890735190983","authorId":3575890735190983,"name":"DanVI","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/478c2cb5a178cff7532f6fa9a68068b7","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869324259,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Done","text":"Done","html":"Done"},{"id":5950182,"gmtCreate":1632260826345,"gmtModify":1663234228730,"authorId":3571697757751706,"author":{"id":3571697757751706,"idStr":"3571697757751706","authorId":3571697757751706,"name":"JamesPang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/936d6e2f7f57e8860a9bdfab91b7f40e","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869324259,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"please like and comment back","text":"please like and comment back","html":"please like and comment back"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869328494,"gmtCreate":1632259998118,"gmtModify":1676530734825,"author":{"id":"3578097586468199","authorId":"3578097586468199","name":"DarkRaven","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f931425b992eebdac73826679fa69afc","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a3dee1aa3a3a3c1814833a4d3f8a5669","crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"authorIdStr":"3578097586468199","idStr":"3578097586468199"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869328494","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869328822,"gmtCreate":1632259963066,"gmtModify":1676530734842,"author":{"id":"3582922989777578","authorId":"3582922989777578","name":"SPOT_ON","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/080f029371339d9db26930961de6adb1","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a3dee1aa3a3a3c1814833a4d3f8a5669","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"authorIdStr":"3582922989777578","idStr":"3582922989777578"},"htmlText":"Like n follow&nbsp;","listText":"Like n follow&nbsp;","text":"Like n follow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869328822","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5950150,"gmtCreate":1632260566037,"gmtModify":1663234230143,"authorId":3570001951488746,"author":{"id":3570001951488746,"idStr":"3570001951488746","authorId":3570001951488746,"name":"Jaaaaaaa","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869328822,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"B","text":"B","html":"B"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869315334,"gmtCreate":1632244679828,"gmtModify":1676530734125,"author":{"id":"3573364000575272","authorId":"3573364000575272","name":"ALLOYHUAT","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1ed93fe58b3eb7ac6c44343e09bfabcd","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3573364000575272","idStr":"3573364000575272"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869315334","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5949646,"gmtCreate":1632246080140,"gmtModify":1663234229136,"authorId":3577604413370961,"author":{"id":3577604413370961,"idStr":"3577604413370961","authorId":3577604413370961,"name":"iHuat","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ba908ea2f329e3dce63ffec884debf23","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869315334,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Liked ","text":"Liked ","html":"Liked "},{"id":5950043,"gmtCreate":1632258578629,"gmtModify":1663234226636,"authorId":3582681835792049,"author":{"id":3582681835792049,"idStr":"3582681835792049","authorId":3582681835792049,"name":"Pplymm","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869315334,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Done. 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What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869304699,"gmtCreate":1632240803911,"gmtModify":1676530733376,"author":{"id":"3585869414507662","authorId":"3585869414507662","name":"Min_max","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a19718c12eabe8d2a0c3e3a797bd178f","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3585869414507662","idStr":"3585869414507662"},"htmlText":"&nbsp;“sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks)”. this takes some effort to understand. but for informed investors, doesnt matter which direction the market goes, then can still make money&nbsp;","listText":"&nbsp;“sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks)”. this takes some effort to understand. but for informed investors, doesnt matter which direction the market goes, then can still make money&nbsp;","text":"“sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks)”. this takes some effort to understand. but for informed investors, doesnt matter which direction the market goes, then can still make money","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869304699","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5950965,"gmtCreate":1632265470018,"gmtModify":1663234230945,"authorId":3581895153736016,"author":{"id":3581895153736016,"idStr":"3581895153736016","authorId":3581895153736016,"name":"aibee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3a01aa497813f2bf89ee264cf6292ab","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869304699,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"[抱拳]","text":"[抱拳]","html":"[抱拳]"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869305664,"gmtCreate":1632240722758,"gmtModify":1676530733337,"author":{"id":"3585281594587734","authorId":"3585281594587734","name":"jazzman","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/576ea0bb835315d386051f7c315a382e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3585281594587734","idStr":"3585281594587734"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869305664","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869949054,"gmtCreate":1632237942078,"gmtModify":1676530732611,"author":{"id":"3581772626334367","authorId":"3581772626334367","name":"shane123","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37ab767dde1f3012ec2356b2a44aa490","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3581772626334367","idStr":"3581772626334367"},"htmlText":"huat!","listText":"huat!","text":"huat!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869949054","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5949215,"gmtCreate":1632240729069,"gmtModify":1663234226237,"authorId":3585281594587734,"author":{"id":3585281594587734,"idStr":"3585281594587734","authorId":3585281594587734,"name":"jazzman","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/576ea0bb835315d386051f7c315a382e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869949054,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869960318,"gmtCreate":1632235723634,"gmtModify":1676530731773,"author":{"id":"3585314341168228","authorId":"3585314341168228","name":"MariaRabing","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b49340fbaa7c65c64d2fec9450c6dd36","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3585314341168228","idStr":"3585314341168228"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869960318","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5948997,"gmtCreate":1632239087836,"gmtModify":1663234223547,"authorId":3573361937273706,"author":{"id":3573361937273706,"idStr":"3573361937273706","authorId":3573361937273706,"name":"Zhaoxiang","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869960318,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>yea</u>","text":"<u>yea</u>","html":"<u>yea</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":869960992,"gmtCreate":1632235694916,"gmtModify":1676530731732,"author":{"id":"3572178765557939","authorId":"3572178765557939","name":"chanfw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ff5c9666d30587e0569a419a34b34d31","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"authorIdStr":"3572178765557939","idStr":"3572178765557939"},"htmlText":"[Smile]&nbsp;","listText":"[Smile]&nbsp;","text":"[Smile]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/869960992","repostId":1177198394,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1177198394","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1632235173,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1177198394?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-09-21 22:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Pros Increased 'Crash' Protection As Reflexive Vol-Sellers Rescued Stocks Yesterday","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1177198394","media":"zerohedge","summary":"A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-","content":"<p>A dramatic rebound in stocks - off the S&amp;P's 100DMA - has prompted many commission-rakers and asset-gatherers today to call the end of the Evergrande event and signal the all-clear to new highs.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1786f12c41a5427f9277711dd6122fa2\" tg-width=\"1280\" tg-height=\"734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">So what happened? What changed?</p>\n<p>Nomura's Charlie McElligott explains that<b>there is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”</b>particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”</p>\n<p><b>Critically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,</b>because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day</p>\n<p>Specifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25f8ce90d9cfdede70ef98382459a6cd\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><b>This indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed</b>. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.</p>\n<p>Put volume surged relative to calls yesterday...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a25913a2cabb6b46c8d7b33bfc4c1b56\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"527\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>To Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it is<b>VERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew</b>(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9f28cb0a978b218edc50c0de19472a9c\" tg-width=\"1024\" tg-height=\"525\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">...which tells us that<b>the Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.</b></p>\n<p>SpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.<b>Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.</b></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f192cee29fb2e39a7c666e6159338989\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"610\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">To the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.<b>Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.</b></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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What changed?\nNomura's Charlie McElligott explains thatthere is simply no way to overstate the power of the “reflexive vol sellers” into another spike, as this “sell the rip (in vol)” = “buy the dip (in stocks),”particularly as it related Put sellers either directionally shorting “rich” vols yday…and “long sellers” who monetized their downside hedges by the close (a lot of that being 1d SPY Puts from Retail “day traders” which doesn’t show in OI), creating $Delta to buy and again self-fulfilling yet another “turnaround Tuesday”\nCritically, that Delta buying in the late day was hugely important then in reducing the absolute $ of systematic deleveraging “accelerant” flows,because only closing down -170bps in SPX then meant a much more manageable -$24.7B of Vol Control de-allocation in coming days, as opposed to what would have been a much more challenging -$62.9B to digest which we estimate would have been triggered off of a “-3% close”…while similarly, Leveraged ETFs only needed to rebalance -$5.9B at EOD, as opposed to a hypothetical -$8.9B assumed at the low of the day\nSpecifically,as SpotGamma details, the chart below shows that puts were net closed at all strikes above 4365 SPX (and 435 SPY) but there were fairly substantial positions added to lower strikes.\nThis indicates puts were rolled rather than outright closed. Again, with the Fed tomorrow trades want to leave some protection on.\nPut volume surged relative to calls yesterday...\n\nTo Nomura's Charlie McElligott's amazement yesterday, we saw confirmation of our repeated point made stating that “the only things that clears out all that “crash” pricing in vol metrics is a crash”... yet it isVERY worth noting then that we actually saw Skew still steepen further yday despite incredibly high levels of both ATM Vol and Skew(SPX 1m 25delta Put Call Skew steepened 70bps, same gig for others: QQQ 64bps, IWM 37bps)...\n...which tells us thatthe Dealer “short Vol / short Skew” problem still remains lurking in background.\nSpotGammaconcludes that its up to Powell tomorrow to set the next price move, which should be rather substantial due to the options positioning.Negative gamma could strongly influence any selling to the downside.\nTo the upside there is also a ton of fuel for an vanna-induced move if traders sell off their puts and crush the high implied volatility levels.Therefore while today is likely about chop, the move out of Wednesday should be substantial.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5948288,"gmtCreate":1632235736198,"gmtModify":1663234220030,"authorId":3585314341168228,"author":{"id":3585314341168228,"idStr":"3585314341168228","authorId":3585314341168228,"name":"MariaRabing","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b49340fbaa7c65c64d2fec9450c6dd36","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":869960992,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>ok</u>","text":"<u>ok</u>","html":"<u>ok</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":372,"commentSize":25,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}