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The QE2 Vix untwist
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Izabella Kaminska on Nov 04 09:55.
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Share DiggRedditLinkedInFacebookdeliciousMixxPropellerYahoo! Buzzstumbleupontwitter</SPAN> Kathleen Brooks, research director at Gain Capital, warned on Wednesday how a quantitative easing boost from the Fed would, most likely, reverse a recent and unusual trend in the Vix Index.
As she explained,
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Kathleen Brooks, research director at Gain Capital,
warned on Wednesday how a quantitative easing boost from the Fed would, most likely, reverse a recent and unusual trend in the Vix Index.
As she explained, for most of October, the Vix rather unusually has been rising alongside the S&P 500 — the index from which it’s derived. The two indices ordinarily move inversely to each other.
Sure enough, come the QE2 announcement, the two did unwind just as she said they would:

So what does that tell us?
According to Brooks, there are really two points to be made here:
1, Although the market is still trying to decide if the size and pace of QE2 is a disappointment or not, it is relieved that the uncertainty is over. The removal of FOMC event risk is like a weight lifted from the market’s shoulders, which makes risky assets more attractive thus depressing the VIx.
2, The fall in the Vix may point to S&P gains. However there is formidable Immediate resistance at 1,200 – a key psychological level, then 1,217 – the high reached back in April.
Which means, before QE2 was announced, the market was applying a risk premium for investing in US equities, or the S&P 500 specifically. Now QE2 is out, that risk premium has been removed.
Simple.