Put this in your pipe and smoke it...
What's that Herb? A momentum-driven market? Lack of conviction? Wha, wha, wha, weak hands?
Conditions conducive to collapse, indeed.
Yet with a move over the past two days seeing increasing hedging of long equity exposure via put options, a broad-based collapse likely will be delayed. This sets up for yet another round of premium scalping selling covered calls, as well as creating conditions wherein last week's call option buyers might exercise and relieve the writers of those contracts of equity whose desired offloading at this pace might require another century.
Pity time is running short for those weak hands whose credit market exposure is likely to make necessary in the not-too-distant future the wholesale dumping of equity positions for the sake of desperately needed capital that, no AIG bake sale, nor Facebook private placement can generate.
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