Without FANG Stocks, the Market Has Gone Nowhere For Three Months
For weeks I’ve been noting that stocks are being driven by a market rig.
By way of review, that rig is as follows:
1) Someone slams the VIX lower.
2) This forces risk-parity funds to buy stocks, usually the FANGs or large-cap Tech names (Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google).
3) FANGs rally, which due to the weighting in the S&P 500, forces the overall market higher.
The last point is key.