A few months ago, Flirting with Models brought on a very unique guest called Cem Karsan.
Whenever I listen to these podcasts, I do not know what to expect. There are some episodes that I feel totally out-of-depth with the subject and there are some subjects that seem worth a deeper listen.
Corey Hoffstein runs a quant momentum strategy, and so most of the guests he brought on are in the same vein. This means that there will be many discussions that I don’t know what they are talking about.
But Cem’s interview is intriguing because Corey and he discussed a certain behaviour in the S&P 500 that I sort of remember in 2017.
The market seems to be grinding higher, and higher, and higher in a zombie-like pattern.
If we observed the market this year, it gives you a similar vibe as in 2017:
Near every options expiry week, which is usually the third week of the month...