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Several (many?) years ago, as trading was becoming more machine-driven and less centered around physical trading-floors, we began asking some of our talented floor traders from around the country\u2019s exchanges to join us on the desk at our Greenwich headquarters.  Our newly relocated colleagues from the Pacific exchange (\u201cthe P-coast\u201d) brought a curious expression with them \u2013 \u201cthe noon balloon\u201d.  The floor traders in San Francisco noticed that markets often rallied in the last hour of the day, which begins at noon local time.  Hence the \u201cnoon balloon\u201d phrase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most of the past few months, the idea of the \u201cnoon balloon\u201d held \u2013 though it occurred around noon Eastern, not Pacific Time.   Through most of the summer I noticed that we tended to rally shortly after 11:30.  (\u201cNoon balloon\u201d has a much better ring to it than whatever I could come up with to rhyme with \u201celeven-thirty\u201d)  It was as though US traders were waiting for their comparatively dour European counterparts to head home.  The chart below shows intraday trading in the S&P 500 Index (SPX) from 11:30 Eastern each day from June 21st<\/sup> through August 20th<\/sup>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPX Intraday Chart, 11:30 \u2013 16:15 Eastern, June 21st<\/sup> \u2013 August 20th<\/sup><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"SPX<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the obvious exceptions of the periods around July and August expiration weeks, we see a seemingly relentless rise during the afternoons.  To be fair, we saw a pretty much relentless rise in the markets overall, but even the rare down days sometimes showed sideways to higher moves in the afternoon session.  Few traders would be blamed if they considered it a reliable strategy to buy US markets when Europe closed unless it was an expiration week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet over the past few sessions I have noticed a change in SPX trading patterns from 11:30 on.  Consider the following graph, which covers the same intraday time span since August 23rd<\/sup>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPX Intraday Chart, 11:30 \u2013 16:15 Eastern, August 23rd<\/sup> \u2013 September 9th<\/sup><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"SPX<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change should be fairly obvious.  Most days show SPX trading sideways to lower from 11:30 on, even on up days.  It is as though traders were accustomed to buying pre-open and throughout the morning but began to discover that the usual afternoon follow-through was not forthcoming.  I\u2019m going to call this the \u201cnoon swoon\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We addressed this topic for the first time last week.\u00a0 At the time, we considered it a potential curiosity \u2013 something that might be interesting, but it was premature to draw any conclusions.\u00a0 With the pattern continuing for another week, it still may be premature to consider selling at 11:30 to be a reliable trading strategy, but it certainly seems to be persisting \u2013 at least for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spelled out a potential rationale for the change last week, and I believe that it still holds today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTraders who notice this pattern must now try to determine why this is occurring.  My theory is that institutions are not buying as actively.  Large funds tend to work their orders throughout the day, and those traders try to beat either the close or VWAP.  I suspect that smaller traders are driving up futures overnight and not getting follow through from institutional buying in the afternoon.   It could be the result of nothing more meaningful than portfolio managers taking late summer vacations.  But if we see the pattern persist, based on declining institutional buying in the marketplace, that could bode trouble as we enter a seasonally difficult period.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we combine that with the concept of \u201cfully-invested bears\u201d<\/a> that we first discussed weeks ago and again yesterday<\/a>, that rationale makes sense.  Institutional investors could certainly be much less aggressive at adding to positions.  We are entering a seasonally difficult period amidst a lack of clarity regarding the pace of future fiscal and monetary accommodation.  If the Federal Reserve is considering whether to take its proverbial foot off the gas pedal, can you blame investors for doing the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been something of a change for options hedgers, though it has been far less pronounced.  The graphs below show the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) over the same periods as the SPX graphs above.  One might expect that there could have been a reliable opportunity to sell volatility at 11:30 throughout the summer and to buy it now at that same time.  But the graphs show otherwise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VIX Intraday Chart, 11:30 \u2013 16:15 Eastern, June 21st<\/sup> \u2013 August 20th<\/sup><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"VIX<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPX Intraday Chart, 11:30 \u2013 16:15 Eastern, August 23rd<\/sup> \u2013 September 9th<\/sup><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"SPX<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The takeaways that I would offer are these:  even the most reliable trading patterns can change without notice, and that while VIX may tend to follow SPX, the correlation is by no means perfect and does not always follow the same timeframe.  But at least for now, the \u201cnoon balloon\u201d has seemingly become a \u201cnoon swoon\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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