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The Market Has Just Gone Nuts

Presented with little comment, aside to ask: "where are the liquidity-providers?"

Extremely heavy volume... and wild swings

 

Zoomed in the moves actually occurred over a 5 minute span... (via @NanexLLC )

 

420 Point roundtrip in The Dow in under 9 minutes...

 

As HYG hit Friday's lows...

 

And all of this is happening right on cue following JPMorgan's Marko Kolanovic warnings of "massive stop losses" ahead..

Key Events In The Coming "Fed's First Hike In 9 Years" Week

While this may well be the most important week for capital markets in the past 9 years, when the Fed is widely expected to hike rates on Wednesday, precisely 7 years to the day since it cut rates to zero, the week sets off with a quiet start today with just the Euro area industrial production reading due out this morning and nothing expected out of the US this afternoon.

Commodity Currencies Are Soaring As Crude, Stocks Bounce

In an effort to wrestle S&P 500 to VWAP, to enable panicking professional sellers out, a sudden bid for crude oil and commodity currencies appeared shortly after 8amET...

S&P ramp to VWAP...

 

On the back of all things commodity-related...

 

Some context for the sudden bid in FX...

 

Now that VWAP has been hit, we wonder what happens next?

 

Charts: Bloomberg

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