QuiCQ 18/02/2026
Fed Up
“In God we trust; everyone else must bring data.”
— Victor Niederhoffer
Enjoying The QuiCQ but not yet signed up for The Quotedian? What are you waiting for?!!
As announced in this week’s Quotedian (click here), some big changes are being implemented on both, our flagship The Quotedian newsletter and its little, more nervous sister-publication The QuiCQ.
Given the rather dull (and somewhat strange) equity market environment right now, coupled with local skiing holidays still underway here in Zurich and other parts of Switzerland, we are taking our time to finish dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s on both publications. Either you will receive your first updated QuiCQ tomorrow, but latest early next week.
But in the meantime, there are two three chart gems I wanted to share anyway.
For example, in the context of a strange market environment, where the S&P 500 has moved nowhere over the past two months,
it is rare to see that the number of overbought AND oversold stocks are BOTH moving higher:
It is then interesting to observe that volatility for the S&P 500 (VIX) and the Nasdaq (VXN) have been moving higher,
but without the curves (below the VIX) having inverted yet, which is the usual sign of an impending market bottom:
That’s all for today’s QuiCQ update - may be trend be with you!
Here’s a fantastic chart out of FT’s Alphaville section today. Click on the picture for the interactive (and better readable) version and the full article (you may need a free FT.com login to be able to access):
