Violent Markets Suggest Something Big Is Coming

The markets have been as skittish as a meth addict who’s been goosed with a cattle prod. Violent short-squeezes and breathtaking swoons have become routine, making buy-and-hold strategies unworkable. The swings have visited as much pain on bulls as bears, and it seems predictable that one or the other will be the far bigger loser once both have been tortured well beyond the point of exhauston.