If history is going to repeat itself over the next week, you can make money by buying DXD and/or VIX. What do you think George Soros is doing (besides laughing)? If you cannot figure out the second analogy, just buy gold.
David DeGerolamo
From http://www.zerohedge.com:
Some Fun With Analogies, Rhyming History And Repeating Futures
We round out the evening with this simple SAT-type exercise:
Oct 3, 2008: SPX=1099.23; VIX=45.14 is to Oct 3, 2011: SPX=1099.23; VIX=45.45
as
Oct. 10, 2008: SPX=899.22; VIX = 69.95 is to ….
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I see some hits on this post today. VIX would have been a bad play at that point in time. Unless the Federal Reserve would have not manipulated the market by 50%.