US markets today's announcements: Consumer Confidence last was 39.8

Market's beware of the big bad BEAR
Yesterdays holiday cheers encouraged by the IMF news of bailing out Italy and Spain will be sober soon by the world's economic growth continues downgrads.
VIX- yesterday we acknowledged big buyers of Dec 37 and 40 calls. They believe that in the next few weeks  are going to be choppy bouncing markets, probably to the downside. VIX- future term structure still hanging flat on  higher grounds indicating a higher-risk year ahead.
Today's economic event Consumer Confidence last was 39.8 consensus on 45 levels considerable big jump towards the positive area above 50.

  

SPY bear spread on weeklies  [VIDEO].

  
   
 



#		symbolCVolPVolPCVolPCOIivUpDownputivcalliv
1 TIN 44185 820 .02 .1 12.6 75 .1604 .0917
2 MCD 1122584 12028 .01 1.23 18.94 49 .2269 .1518
3 KO 514473 11618 .02 .96 20.83 42 .2443 .1722
4 HD 338459 7670 .02 .91 26.78 35 .3078 .2279
5 TLT 12702 46389 3.65 1.49 22.96 21 .2516 .2075
6 SPY 754520 1281126 1.7 2.17 29.53 17 .3186 .272
7 VIA.B 901 30751 34.13 .66 42.56 15 .4559 .3953
8 XLF 162320 179093 1.1 1.81 43.68 15 .4677 .4058
9 QQQ 308291 153612 .5 1.47 29.1 11 .306 .2761
10 XLE 23857 38938 1.63 1.38 39.59 11 .4161 .3757
11 GE 56273 30158 .54 1.29 35.68 9 .3715 .3421
12 BAC 260875 116433 .45 .64 78.86 7 .8154 .7618
13 MTG 43224 336 .01 .38 124.17 6 1.2759 1.2076
14 SPX 137358 382622 2.79 1.61 29.2 6 .3002 .2838
15 EEM 71711 94364 1.32 1.45 41 5 .4208 .3991
16 EWZ 80467 95618 1.19 1.42 42.23 4 .4314 .4132
17 USO 28981 56438 1.95 .82 39.12 4 .3998 .3826
18 MSFT 87493 34603 .4 .73 25.93 -5 .2532 .2654
19 VIX 137572 44451 .32 .84 100.93 -10 .9546 1.064
20 RUT 28253 31789 1.13 1.43 39.21 -18 .3541 .43


Positive numbers would suggest an up signal and negative for the down signal. You also need to take under consideration that each stock has it own gauge. Sometimes options prices are distorted because the stock is before the dividend payment date.
We also recommend a further analysis, both, fundamentally and technically.



* Cvol = Call Volume.
* PVol = Put Volume.
* PCVol = Put/Call Volume.
* PCOI = Put/Call Open Interest.
* IV =  Implied Volatility index.
* UpDown = Up or down signal  -  up positive numbers.
* Putiv = Puts Implied Volatility.
* Calliv = Calls Implied Volatility.

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