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Sentiment check

What a wild couple of days! Yesterday the market closed up with a huge amount of put selling in the last several hours, close to a hundred thousand against ES for today's expiration. That helped to spur a lot of liquidity being added to the market, which in turn led to a lot of stops being run, and the cycle fed itself with dealer chasing due to negative gamma.

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abbas.ibrahiam
Apr 27, 2022

Hey Mayhem, thanks for your hard work! We all appreciate your effort into making this community a great educational resource! For realised volatility, how do you compute it? Do you use the standard deviation of returns? Or some more heavy mathematics. My maths is probably my strongest point so be as quantitative as you like!

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Unknown member
May 01, 2022
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Hey QED! Great question. Check out S&P Global's website


https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/indicators/sp-500-1-month-realized-volatility-index/

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Andy Featherston
Andy Featherston
Apr 27, 2022

I have held $SRTY for some time now, and continue to hold. Today, my patience paid off. Now let’s see where we go from here. Probably a bounce for $IWM that’s very brief tomorrow, and then even lower lows.

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Andy Featherston
Andy Featherston
Apr 27, 2022

Hey Mayhem - so glad I joined. Looking forward to continuing to learn from you!

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Unknown member
May 01, 2022
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Thank you for joining up, Andy! Glad to have you be a part of this community!

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