This Is What “Stress Levels” Looked Like Two Months Before The Last Three Market Crashes

• This Is What “Stress Levels” Looked Like Two Months Before The Last Three Market Crashes
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com 
  … the real question of course is whether a crash is indeed coming? As Bank of America notes, a traditional telltale sign of crashes is a surge in correlation among various otherwise uncorrelated assets.
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  Which is notable because as we showed earlier, the correlation among two key asset classes, namely stocks and oil, have soared to record highs…. while the respective vol correlations is likewise surging, as one would expect, soaring.
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  This, to many traders, is the first clear sign that something is seriously wrong and a broad selloff may either be imminent or necessary to short circuit a market in which all correlations are converging.
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  So for those who are inching closer to the “crash is imminent” camp, we suggest taking a look at the chart below showing the stress levels, or rather lack thereof, 2 months prior to every major crash in the past decade, and extrapolating how far said “stress” may soar to in the coming 8 weeks if, as Citi, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank today suggest, central banks are on the verge of losing control…

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