Friday, May 16, 2014

Peak Complacency

Talk about things that nobody cares
Wearin' out things that nobody wears
--Aerosmith

Nice review of measures of risk appetite and complacency. Many gauges are marking extremes--risk appetite and complency are high.


Complency measures like the VIX are not good timing mechanisms. But they reflect springs coiling tighter in advance of major trend reversal.

position in SPX

1 comment:

dgeorge12358 said...

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb