PANDORA’S BOX EVERYTHING GOT OUT. THE HOPE IS AT THE BOTTOM. |
THE ONE-WAY DOOR Options traders have priced tomorrow’s vote at about one percent, and the midterm average is four Polls close on Tuesday. The number that moves is Wednesday’s, and the market has already written it down. |
One percent and four percent. Those are the two numbers in front of tomorrow. |
Polls close tomorrow across the country. |
Forward volatility on the Cboe points to a move of slightly more than one percent on Wednesday. |
The average move the session after a midterm is closer to four. |
The market is not pricing a surprise. |
Cheap insurance is still insurance. |
A price is not a plan. What a vote can change for a retirement account sits outside the options market. |
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That gap is the whole story, and it cuts both ways. |
Priced for calm means a clear result costs an index holder nothing. |
It also means an unclear one is not in the price at all. |
Look at what the session after actually did. |
Up 0.37 percent in 2010, up 0.57 in 2014, up 2.12 in 2018, down 2.08 in 2022. |
| 1% PRICED FOR THE SESSION AFTER THE VOTE | → | A price is not a forecast. It is the cost of being wrong, and right now that cost is cheap. |
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In three of those four years the volatility index fell the next day. |
That is the market saying it had already decided. |
Tomorrow is a count, not a policy. |
Reuters reports the House is widely expected to change hands, with the Senate less certain. |
Neither of those is a forecast to trade on. Both are what the positioning assumes. |
The sectors traders name as sensitive to the result are defence and healthcare. |
After those come the rules around artificial intelligence and the expansion of data centres. |
And the level of scrutiny applied to banks and to crypto firms. |
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Two other things land this week and neither is on a ballot. |
The Federal Reserve left rates alone last Wednesday and changed its word for the economy from solid to strong. |
Markets now price about a three in four chance of a rise in December. |
October payrolls print on Friday, with about 65,000 jobs expected after 29,000 in September. |
Unemployment was 4.2 percent last month. |
Any one of those can move a portfolio further than a seat count. |
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01 | Can it be undone? The count cannot. The positioning around it unwinds in a session or two, which is what the one percent describes. | |
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02 | Who is already repositioning? Option desks, which steepened the volatility curve weeks ago, and anyone holding a sector on the sensitive list. | |
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03 | What does being late cost? For an index holder, nothing. For a single-name holder in defence, healthcare or power, a week of catching up. | |
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Repricing also happens on the days nobody circled. |
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THE MOVE · TWO VERSIONS, PICK YOURS If you hold index funds, do nothing on Wednesday. The one percent is already in the price you own. If you hold single names, the line to check is sector, not party: defence, healthcare, data centres, banks. A count that takes days rather than hours is the one case none of these numbers cover. |
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ALSO GOT LOOSE TODAY | Four central banks decide this week, starting with Australia on Tuesday and ending with the Bank of England on Thursday. | WORLD |
| Brazil’s central bank meets on Wednesday with its policy rate at 13.75 percent. | MONEY |
| Indonesia publishes third quarter growth on Thursday. | LATER |
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WHAT’S LEFT AT THE BOTTOM An election is counted once. A portfolio is priced every weekday for the next two years. WE WATCH THE BOX. |
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