Some light sat night reading. This is a good table that helps think/remind what each option greek represents. If you use options you need to nail these down. Save this table somewhere
This chart is crazy, made in 1875 by Samuel Benner showing periods of panic, good time to sell assets and good times to buy. Mind blowing that he predicted so many events. Really telling. Don’t have the source someone sent it to me
Exxon is forecasted to have net income of $43B ("more than God") but Google of $76B, Microsoft of $80B, and Apple of $104B. Exxon profit margin 11%, those guys 30%. Let’s be clear this was driven by policy makers and rates at 0%
High inflation typically leads to a slow down in economic activity because it starts killing demand. Commodity at these levels is already doing Jerome Powell’s job 👇
1/ Commodity trading houses have had to manage liquidity at current price by re-entering the market and upsizing their facilities. They are obviously under pressure and the bond market is repricing. Here you have the CDS of Louis Dreyfus, a trading house active in the agri space.
The real earnings yield for the SPX hasn’t been this deep into negative territory since 1947. Happened only 4 times before all of which resulted in bear markets. I mean guys, this is what you are buying right now 👇
BLOOMBERG: Gazprom Neft now accepts only yuan for fueling Russian airplanes at China’s airports. By end of 2022 it plans to switch to ruble settlements for fueling Chinese planes at Russian airports 🤔
Margin Debt soared 50% in the past 8 months. In the past 30+ years, such investor euphoria happened exactly twice:
March 2000
June 2007
Now
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@bullmarketsco
This is Germany base load forward year, translated cost of electricity. This is directly linked to cost of gas, and of coal. LNG is not going down, and coal is at historical high prices following decades of under capex 🫤
BLOOMBERG: The Biden administration is effectively asking refiners to prioritize American consumers over maximizing profits by supplying fuel-starved Europe, which is facing an unprecedented energy crunch after the invasion of Ukraine - export ban coming up
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Look how fast gas storage was depleted in the UK with cold weather and renewables failing. Now as Russian flows disappear the problem will become real across EU, making the cap even more inadequate
1/ HOW TO USE OUR Q-MODELS with IV RANK: IV rank is great to find opportunities in the options market. For example, one can use it to sell options. In general, if IV rank is high, a good strategy could be to sell options. Let’s see how our models can help 🧵
@AlessioUrban
Chip shortages has been slowly improving, yet what people fail to appreciate is that to produce chips you need rare gases. Ukraine supplies 50% of neon gas and 30% of Xenon. All this has been halted due to war, and it will subsequently affect Chip production
CDS of all banks are moving up, that’s because there is speculation that a systemic bank may blow up. That freezes interbank lending. We’ve seen this before 🤌
1/ Read this thread on EV vis Diesel 🧵
"Volkswagen (VW) calculates that a diesel car emits less CO2 than an EV for the first 70,000 miles it is driven. How can this be? Fabricating one EV battery entails mining about 250 tons of rock to secure the minerals needed.
H/T Lars Tvede
Monthly expirations (Opex) are becoming more and more linked to dips (and buy the dips). As large gamma expires we see an increase in volatility and drop in price. This Friday looks set to be another important expiry 👇
@jam_croissant
This is the real problem guys, USD and Crude are just moving up together and we have lost the non-correlation. As crude is paid in USD, weaker currencies/countries are just getting hammered
The way the option greeks are linked is not always clear. But it is essential because it affects the value of your options. This table helps me when I set up trades and risk manage
This is to put things into perspective. For the SPX, put volumes on Monday were the highest since March 2020. In Europe, demand for bearish contracts on the Euro Stoxx 50 Index topped 1 million contracts for the first time since December 👇
Purchasing power of $100 over time:
1950 - $100
1960 - $80.41
1970 - $61.34
1980 - $28.88
1990 - $18.21
2000 -$13.82
2010 - $10.91
2021 - $8.7
In 70 years, $100 dollars lost 91.3% of its real value
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@MarilynnMinkk
Japan is burning through FX reserves at the speed of light. This is not sustainable. Next round they will start selling Treasuries and guess what that will do? Spike Treasury yields higher and make the USD stronger which weakens the Yen. And we go round and round
Conversation this morning with an “expert” in the City of London. So this is it “we need to stop buying their commodity, but tame inflation immediately”. These are the experts, now imagine the rest of the world
The BOT is now live. Received some questions on how to use the Query BOT. You can see how to use it from this video. We also created a Resource page. But by following the video you will be able to see how to enter a query and run our models
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BLOOMBERG: Ecuador’s oil production is likely to halt completely within 48 hours if road blocks and vandalizing of oil wells continue, the Energy Ministry said in an emailed statement 🤌
BLOOMBERG: The French government is threatening to take control of some of the country’s biggest refineries that have been halted by strikes.
Ok, and how will they run them? It’s not like a playstation. Pretty complex machines. Try to visit a refinery control room 👇
Supply story in oil getting worse. Now we have a huge short covering. Wall Street narrative is shifting to growth mode. Price broke 200MA activating systematic strategies. At this point oil is looking to run - and we are still waiting on Saudi's cuts. US oil rig count 👇
@INArteCarloDoss
Those holes in bank books keep getting wider by the day. The Russian situation can easily bring down some western banks. People have zero idea about this. Think it is a one way road
Germany believes that the 11 of July is the day Putin pulls the plug on gas delivery to Germany for good. That is about to create caos in Germany as well as the rest of EU who is running out of time, Russia’s energy strategy is starting to bite really hard
1/ Last couple of weeks, we have seen a spike in put/call ratio. Historically this can be a sign of a bearish market. But this time there is a specific reason for the spike. I will attach CBOE article on this, but will also re-cap what happened 🧵
The S&P 500 Index now trades at 16.5 times estimated 12-month earnings, the lowest since April 2020 and below the average level of 17.04 times seen over the past decade. Keep steady 👇
3/ After ‘08 trading houses took the role that the bank used to have. JPM, J Aron (GS), MS used to trade heavy volumes of physical until regulators clipped their wings. Their role is pretty important throughout the supply chain, a blow up in this market would be a problem
1/ OPTION EDUCATION: What does it mean when our model is in positive or negative gamma? In this thread we will help you understand how our model can help your option spread trading🧵
@AlessioUrban
1/ Let's talk about GAMMA tonight 🧵
What is gamma? Gamma is the first derivative of delta with respect to underlying price. Gamma measures the rate of the change in delta as the underlying spot moves