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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (39555)	8/24/2005 3:48:20 PM
From: russwinter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

I'm using VIX as a short term thermostat, as I need something to measure stress or the long awaited "credit event". I figure it will show there as a strong sustainable intra day spike. I also consider quick hosings of every VIX pop, to be suspicion behavior. Normal markets don't trade that way, looks like Soviet Union style command and control PPT nonsense. I've noticed an inverse VIX relationship to poor economic news and bond rallies. Bad news usually results in lower yields and lower VIX (Mr. Creosote friendly), positive economic news brings out VIX stress, it should be the opposite in a normal, healthy market and economic. But as we all know, this is a very sick Bubble. Notice how the market earlier rejoiced on Bubble friendly housing news, as both the VIX was hosed down earlier, and yields went down. Turned out to be nothing more than another in a long string of short covering though?