With the market starting the week in a very quiet state, the VIX broke new lows for 2013. There is simply a near complete lack of fear in the broader market. The VIX closed -8.2% @ 11.56 Today was the lowest VIX since March 2007.
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Summary
Whilst the Fed keeps throwing money into the financial markets, its going to be real difficult to get a sustained climb in market volatility.
We remain in a HFT algo-bot marketplace, fuelled by POMO dollars, and there is absolutely no sign of that end situation ending any time soon.
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VIX in single digits is viable at 'any point' in the near term.
more later..on the indexes