Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we’ll talk about what rules the market, fear, and why it is important to have some fears but also overcome them Fears rule the market – and the more fear makes the market more volatile  Occurs on both side – fears of losing money – fear of missing out on returns Drives large crashes and drive large rallies – obviously selling and buying affect price – but the fears can be behind the behaviours of buying and selling Behaviours of the current market – Volumes are spiking on the market in trades – See a spike in volumes in large movements on ASX – March – Saw double the average in trading Been a record surge in Nasdaq volume more recently – also their equity call volumes hit their decade high – Calls – options that are essentially leveraging to buy the market in the future – works well when the market goes up At the institutional levels - Goldman's prime desk notes that while overall hedge fund gross leverage fell -2.5 pts to 247.1% (96th percentile one-year), net lev