One week after Friday the 13th, a far more important for the market Friday has arrived: quad-witching day, when once every quarter we get the simultaneous expiration of contracts for index futures, index options, stock options, and single stock futures, and when increased volatility and an explosion in volumes usually follow. As such, these days are entirely at the mercy of dealer and trader positioning, and as Charlie McElligott pointed out yesterday, as of this moment the S&P is “shackled” by a “Long Gamma” death-grip, with some $8.3BN in expiration at the 3,000 strike, which will ensure that the S&P gravitates around 3,000 for most of the day.
He talks about mismanagement and current bond issues. He said the IMF did not want China printing money when they had a crisis 10 years prior to the crash of 08. But what did they do, exactly what they told them not to do.
After listening to the end of this he turns out to be quite arrogant making false accusations about brown people being attacked when it’s just the opposite just like England where they try to hide it. Then no mention about China jailing Muslims and political prisoners are killed and their organs harvests for sale. Nor that they boil cats and dogs alive and eat them. Nor the products they copied from the west.