S2Ep96 | Two Glitches, And Now The Governor. The Cheap Insurance Just Got Expensive | 5th...

Описание: For four episodes the story was the same: the market was pricing calm far too cheaply into one day. That day is today. At 10 o'clock the Reserve Bank decides on rates, and the calm is gone. The fear gauge has climbed three sessions in a row, from a three month low of 11.76 to 12.19, the internal volatility read has gone from about 8 to almost 14, and the weekly straddle has roughly doubled. The vol expansion I flagged last Monday is here, and the professional desks that bought cheap insurance on both sides last week were right, and early.
First the housekeeping, because it decides how you read the screen. The new closing auction has now misfired two days running. Monday it printed the Nifty 188 points too high. Yesterday, on weekly expiry, it did it again, spiking the settlement about 120 to 150 points above where the market actually traded into the close. The screen says the Nifty settled at 24,614. The real level, from the futures and the Sensex, was closer to 24,516. And it stung, because on expiry options settle on that closing price, and the auction dragged the settlement above the 24,500 strike where the market was pinning, so the traders who correctly sold the 24,500 straddle got run over by a print, not by the market. Grade everything today off the real level near 24,516.
On the real tape yesterday was a quiet down day, the real Nifty off about a third of a percent and the Sensex, with a normal close, down just 0.27, the heavyweights Reliance and HDFC Bank doing the damage on weak breadth. A tired tape, waiting.
The positioning shows who is ready. The foreign funds are a protected long: short the index futures, but holding nearly 4,86,000 long puts and long a big stock book, and they bought another 2,446 crore of cash. The pros who were long volatility last week have taken the bet off, now short across futures, calls and puts, because their cheap options already did the job as the fear gauge climbed. They bought low, and they are trimming into the event.
Today's lesson is the exact mirror of last week's. Then I said buy the cheap insurance and own volatility into the event. Today I say the opposite, because that premium is now fully in the price. Buy an option at 9:15 into a 10 o'clock hold that 68 of 72 economists expect, and you pay peak premium for a boring outcome, then it evaporates the second the governor confirms the hold. That is the IV crush. The edge was owning it cheap last week. Today, if anything, sell the inflated premium after the print, do not chase it before.
The plan, in two halves. Before 10, a gap up that clears the 24,600 wall on a strong global tailwind, Wall Street ripped with the S and P up 1.8 percent and Asia ripping too, and crude stayed low near 79 dollars, so our futures point to an open near 24,750, but do not trust a gap-open above the wall before the governor speaks. The fresh weekly chain: max pain 24,500, the biggest wall 24,600, the put floor at 24,000. After 10, base case a hold and a vol crush that lets the market drift into a 24,500 to 24,600 pin. The tail is a hawkish hold, live because June inflation ran 4.38 percent, and it opens the downside toward 24,300 then 24,000, exactly what those 4,86,000 foreign puts protect. Trade the reaction, not the anticipation, and watch the 3:30 auction a third time.
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