Beneficials see upside: risks to inflation possibly leading to more rate hikes Fed Saw quote unquote significant inflation risks that made Merit more hikes. With all that in mind of thinking of inflation, China Until the Netherlands and Germany until the whole oil situation, the whole presidential election. there's a lot of craziness in the market, which might reasonably lead you to believe that's why the Market's selling. but it's not that.

and if you thought it was because of the strange economic and monetary times, you're wrong. The real reason is you: you have no other option in this world to blame beside yourself. Oh foreign, it's because of you degenerates watching this right now yoloing slinging your zero Dtes Goldman Sachs Blames Zero Day Options for fueling S P 500 sell-off It is nothing else besides that, you are to blame. If you want to know who has the potential to have caused all this, you better take a long hard look in the mirror.

Look closely at the Contours of Tuesday's tumble in the S P 500 and fingerprints of a New Market Force come into Focus I'm just picturing Goldman going around kind of like a sleuth looking for that one fragment of a fingerprint that they can match together with other ones that they found at other Financial crime scenes. Their options side to the S P 500 with a maturity less than 24 hours, a flurry of trading in the contracts known as zero days till expiration was the backdrop to a jarring acceleration of the day's decline, one in which the equity Benchmark slid roughly 0.4 percent in 20 minutes. Market makers whose need to keep books balanced often means that they must buy or sell stock in Mass when option Traders Cascade in were forced into action by Furious Trading and bearish puts with a strike price of 4440, those options almost a hundred thousand contracts change hands during the session, or 45 billion in notional value, which we've recently learned as a silly way to look at the world of options. 45 billion? We're not talking about everyone exercising it.

Most of this open interest ends up dying off before the actual expiration as their costs like two nine dollars from 70 cents in a short span near the sessions and is sent market makers on the other side of the transaction in a dash for Hedges to stay Market neutral. In this case, that meant in Exodus from equities, there's not enough liquidity on the screen to handle market makers Delta Hedging such as a dramatic move over a short 20-minute period. Not my pick, not my farm I Don't give a they are hedged properly. There's no rule.

there's no law like if you can't hedge appropriately. Not my problem. If I want to YOLO into options with my money I Can you think I'm gonna be crying a tier for the market makers who have such a tough time keeping their book neutral. No, they can lick my dude.

It's not my problem. So anyway, that's apparently the problem of why the market is going down. Uh, it has apparently nothing to do with the overall global economy and the state of things getting worse. Apparently it's just the retail degenerates were ruining the fun for everyone.

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