@3KComeback I agree with this, if people understood stock technicals and signals they would’ve bought at a much lower price and still be in a gain after today. Most stocks were already slowing down before the big dip and had sell signals on. Buying lump sum at ATH market is a gamble. #FOMO
If anyone wonders why your portfolio feels like it's moving around a lot lately:
$VIX is sitting at 22.
A quick way to estimate the market's expected daily move is to take the VIX and divide it by 16 (the square root of 252 trading days).
22 ÷ 16 = 1.375%
That means the market is pricing in roughly 1.375% daily moves in $SPY. With $SPY around $732, that's approximately $10.07 swings per day.
For context, when the VIX was around 14 earlier this year, implied daily moves were only about 0.875%.
In other words, we're experiencing nearly double the day-to-day volatility compared to just a few weeks ago.
So if your portfolio feels more volatile lately, it's not necessarily because you're doing something wrong.
It's the environment.