Monday, March 14, 2011

Markets and India VIX

Folks,

I am back from a long leave and have not got enough time to research on a particular subject. However, I have made a quick study on the India VIX and the correlation with the market and hence presenting it in a short post.

First, please go back to my articles in first week of February when I was bearish on the market and had maintained that it was a sell on rally market. In fact some of you will remember that I became bearish in January first week itself. In those articles I had mentioned about the volatility and its correlation with the bottoming out process. Here’s the link towards one of those articles.

http://themarketinternals.blogspot.com/2011/02/it-remains-sell-on-rally-markets.html

It’s not a coincidence that the VIX hit 29 point something on the 25th February and the Nifty made an intermediate bottom of 5232 on the same day. It had to happen, markets bottom out when the fear is highest, when everyone starts turning bearish and that’s what happened one trading day ahead of budget, which was the date in question, 25th February.

Now, this phase is looking uncannily similar to the Feb-Apr 2010 experience. In Feb 2010, the Nifty bottomed at a VIX level of 30 and while the VIX fell from 30 to 18, the Nifty rallied 10% by the end of first fortnight of April. A note of caution though, the Nifty had a double dip, when it again fell 8% in April-May period and finally bottomed out with VIX hitting 35 in May.

So while it looks like an intermediate bottom is in place and the markets can eke out a further 5-6% rally, just keep a hawk eye on the India VIX. If it starts to make a move below 20 accompanied by a rise in speculative F&O volumes, it could be signal of an impending double digit. Till then, the markets look fine. Remember, you need to be ahead of the markets and not behind it to make big money and market internals would almost always give you the right signals.

Disclaimer: The author of this article does not invest/trade in stock markets including derivatives. His only exposure to stock markets is via the stock options of TV18 and Network18 given to him by his company as part of his compensation

6 comments:

  1. Welcome back......one thing which i hv realised abt vix is tht its range has changed frm 17-23 to 21-28, hence we have volatile times ahead

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  2. as you told one should ahead of market and not behind, People many times thinks you 4th IDIOTS after that 3 IDIOTS of amir khan...I was predicting nifty below 5000 and now many big market participates are claiming the same ....so its irony of the THINK AHEAD OF THE CROWD....you may find the same interesting at my blog www.stockjocky.blogspot.com what i predicted before the BUDGET :)

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  3. gr8 to have you back. looks like u had a nice break. thanks a lot for such a nice research.
    thanks

    looking forward for u to take ur next break ;-)

    thank you again

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  4. No more post after 14 March 2011 ???

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  5. Haan nifty 10000 jayegi tab tak petrol 500 aur chini 250 ho jayegi, chini jab 250 ho jayegi tab niklega tel aur anil,mukesh,radia aur tata khel rehe honge ek naya khel. ye bharat hai yahan kuch bhi mumkin hai par yaaro nifty ke har point me shamil kya hamara dhan hai. large cap to lete hai sirt fii jab nifty 10000 pe jay to midcap index kahi apna naya low na banay, adab arj hai

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  6. Interesting blog.
    Another interesting blog on India VIX is www.niftyvix.com

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