🚨 Put protection just hit an all-time record.
This can only mean one thing… pic.twitter.com/1Ucpqoe5P2
— NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) March 4, 2026
Downside put demand has been through the roof as you'd expect in the last week.
The fixed strike vol on 5-delta puts are up around 5 vols relative to 5-delta calls unchanged.
SPX is only down 1% in that time period.
This type of tail risk repricing often precedes a serious… pic.twitter.com/Dh5HSyXHBQ
— Imran Lakha | Options Insight (@options_insight) March 4, 2026
Investors now hold the most put protection in history 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/Nw2YW78SPW
— Barchart (@Barchart) March 4, 2026
https://twitter.com/yuriymatso/status/2029210164319142288
Everyone is getting increasingly bearish here, and while I understand the concern, the macro backdrop is improving a lot, especially in the US – that we can measure live with Nowcast IQ
There is a very very underappreciated comeback in the US economy, if we set aside the "noise"… pic.twitter.com/yT0kYErd6w
— Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno) March 4, 2026
Mortgage refis just surged 14.3% in a single week. That's the kind of data that should have equities ripping.$SPY can't hold 687. Rolled over in pre-market, breadth deteriorating, MACD bearish. The textbook bullish setup is getting sold into.
Meanwhile crypto is up nearly 5%…
— TraderHC (@traderhc) March 4, 2026