Stock Market was overexposed to short volatility positions which is now causing termination of short vol funds across the market. In order to cover these failing positions, funds will be forced to sell equities and take long VIX positions.
>XIV is inverse of VIX, the risk/fear index of the market >if VIX doubles, XIV halves >if VIX goes to infinity, XIV goes to zero >XIV basically went to zero
strap in boys
Nathaniel Baker
this is heavy stuff.
Julian James
I think you guys are honestly under estimating how serious this is, This is going to send credit suiss into liquidation, and the ripples will flow through the rest of the financial system. 7 TRILLION dollars losses were just created by this. This is world changing news
James Robinson
What does it mean for crypto though?
Julian Butler
/r/tradexiv right now
Chase Gomez
Unknown short term. Very good long term.
Nicholas Young
WE WIEMAR NOW
Mason Young
Hahahahahhaha.
>he thinks he can get rich by trading volatility, something which isn't a real commodity
This is worse than the crypto cucks.
Justin Davis
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literally nothing >Credit Suisse statement on $XIV: "The XIV ETN activity is reflective of today's market volatility. There is no material impact to Credit Suisse."
If they're not fucking stupid... but I don't know with banks
Michael Johnson
Credit Suisse can survive a $500million loss. It's a 40 billion dollar company.
Luke Garcia
ripple effects. CS isnt the issue
Evan Jones
I'm telling you, it'll be green across the board tomorrow. This is just jitters over a new Fed and JP Morgan getting a wrist slap
Liam Smith
As exciting as this is, I hope you're right. Futures not looking good, could see another 2-3% drop at the opening bell
Asher Peterson
Who the fuck invented this type of derivative, and why were they not stopped with a bullet in the back of their flat skull?
Joshua Lee
ugh, QE babbys... you will learn the hard way
Jonathan Gutierrez
wait till morning, some real big boys getting margined and liquidated don't panic
wiping out these short vol retards is way over due and healthy
Ethan Thompson
waiting for china to liquidate 2T in holdings this week
Ryder Clark
Anybody here actually hold XIV? I lost about 8 k lmao
Wyatt Lewis
I'm in UVXY, and even I'm afraid of what might happen tomorrow.
Christopher Sanders
i only had a little to mess around with, but i had 130 avg and got in last wednesday or thursday
Matthew Jackson
JUST
Jayden Reed
i bet he is currently hanging from his ceiling fan
Ryan Miller
>green across the board tomorrow >no
Oliver Taylor
actully vix going up 100% is enough to totally wipe out xiv
Angel Rogers
...
Benjamin Rodriguez
Can you make a movie with Christian Bale to explain this to me?
Logan Reed
>I'm in UVXY, and even I'm afraid of what might happen tomorrow. youre going to be rich
while every one else loses their shirts
$10-$30 in 2 days and this is just the start. I predicting at least 20% correction. At least.
Hunter Foster
it means we only have 70% losses and no liquidation threshold, as opposed to that piece of shit
hooray?
Jaxson Baker
>20% that's a crash not a correction
Hudson Torres
Its not spot price so it wont go all the way to 0
Austin Clark
CS capitalized enough to absorb this. The ECB is ruthless in enforcing their capital requirements.
t. work for European bank in US and get audited by ECB every now and then
Logan Davis
>that's a crash not a correction semantics, correction is anything over 10% but in principle I agree. Its a crash.
Michael Jones
Is this cause the feds increased market rates, the fed chair head is about to change, Obama left Trump with a time bomb, all of the above, or was it all trumps fault?
Colton Rodriguez
should i get into UVXY tomorrow?
Grayson Green
It's not even the increased market rates really. Its the fact that they reduced them in the first place a decade ago.
Camden Murphy
...
Hunter Perez
I HURT MYSELF TODAY
Chase Cox
I'm not sure exactly what kind of sorcery (futures, spreads, swaps) is involved in managing these funds day to day but I know that they have to be rebalanced daily and if the long and short funds somehow need to offset each other it might possibly, but probably unlikely, spell trouble for the long fund as well. I'm sure there are contingency plans in place for this.
Elijah Cook
all memeing aside, vix is gonna hit the 50s tomorrow
Jonathan Robinson
its a terrible vehicle designed to decay, if you were smart and knew what to do you woulve got in on friday, its simply not wise to get into something that has gone up 200% in 2 days. So what im saying is absolutely, all in, use margin.
Jeremiah Barnes
Buy mobius sir, link is a scam
John Long
Agreed, you gotta grab the bull by the horns and fuck him silly. Tap into the HELOC too.
who the fuck thought it was a good idea to use a picture of a corkscrew roller coaster for an investment vehicle?
Hudson Torres
>When a fucking FURRY is laughing at us
Gabriel Richardson
>he bought $XIV
Easton Diaz
Well said! I’m off to the gym
Adrian Sanchez
So when's the time to start panic selling everything?
Blake Torres
...
Jaxon Hughes
last thursday
Brody Martinez
reality: some retail faggots and nigger tier hedge funds will get BTFO. Otherwise it is nbd. Just lol at thinking CS goes under from this how retarded are you
Hudson Perry
sorry...
0.5 billion hit at Credit Suisse tonight?
Logan Adams
This must be how it feels to be raped.
Nicholas Reed
CS market cap is $45.5 billion.
Jack Green
This
Alexander White
>suneq lol wallstreetbets
Aaron Nguyen
fuck CS they deserve it for these shit tier rip off products
Alexander Stewart
>ripples will flow through the rest of the financial system Nice just bought 100k xrp
Brandon Myers
I made 1% in 3 months. If I sold 2 Fridays ago it'd have been 10% ez.
Angel Thompson
>-132%
My condolences
Joshua Torres
switzerland has its own central bank and in case you didnt follow the news, they devalued the swiss franc intentionally by buying fat stacks of euros. they can sell those before anything really goes to shit and then some gold
user is talking out of his ass throwing credit suisse in there (he couldn't even spell it right)
Juan Scott
I never heard of this xiv coin before. What does it do? Why is it falling? Can someone shill me on it
Luke Perry
/wsb/ reporting
Bentley Moore
VIX is a stock market index fund that tracks volatility based on futures contracts. When volatility increases XIV decreases. We have been in a long period of gradually decreasing volatility. Today volatility went nuts after hours and XIV crashed into the ground and its looking to be liquidated tomorrow.
Basically its got all the risk of crypto with all the lameness of an index fund!
Ryder Hughes
>98.69% Diversity but they said diversity was our strength
Oliver Howard
Kid. Xiv only has 1.5b in assists.
Holy shit you guys are dense.
Nolan Lopez
WE HUNGRY
Ayden Cook
i've lost so much i'm fucking blindsided
Jaxon Edwards
Nothing like getting a train run on you by your co-workers to take your mind off a global financial crisis.
Aiden Reed
lets fuk this furry
Justin Barnes
credit suisse will be fine, at worst they will get bailed out, but they wont need to
Nathaniel Wood
> credit suisse will be fine Yeah it's Deutsche bank that is really fucked
Brody Johnson
Yeah only a 99.5% loss so you still have enough to buy a fucking McDouble
Justin Lopez
MR TRUMP ARE YOU GOING TO SAVE US? MR TRUMP???
Isaiah Stewart
tomorrow it will be
Xavier Martin
Trump inherited a strong market and we are now seeing the ripples and effects of his policies in the market. I expect retards to blame Obama despite it not making sense.
Xavier Moore
FED policies that caused this drop are independent of Trump.