As we noted earlier, stocks squeezed higher for the 4th straight day, but VIX (unusually) rose today along with the equity indices (extending the decoupling we started to see on Friday)... {chart} These are the tell-tale footprints of large levered-long bets being placed as options traders chase the market higher. And, as Bloomberg reports, a number of large, bullish bets were flagged following last week's reports from Goldman's trading desk that they'd seen the largest notional long-buying in a year ahead of tomorrow's CPI print. There were “several examples of investors turning to upside calls for exposure to (or ... (full story)