Can you hear it?
Two charts to start, ANZ one and five year charts.

the one year chart still captures the high. I thought it would be good to keep a snapshot of that.
four steps forward one giant leap back.
and now the VIX, hitting peaks not seen in…gosh how many years is it? 5 or 6?

a few days back VIX and More commented that “we have a new line in the sand right now, a VIX of 42.16 (and SPX of 1133).”
as VIX said we have extreme fear when the VIX continues …

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Last night just when I wanted to close my eyes and go to sleep my wife asked me how risky our investments are. As my dearest almost never asks about our investments I found this particular question and its timing quite bewildering. Bloody mass media and credit crunch. When it comes to our finances my clever, widely read, successful, gorgeous wife wants things explained in …