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The Originals → Episode stills 2x05 “Red Door”

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES’ NINA DOBREV APPEARS IN FLASHBACKS AS TATIA, THE ORIGINAL DOPPELGANGER — In order to show Elijah (Daniel Gillies) that her plan is what’s best for him, Esther forces him to relive a time long ago when he loved a young woman named Tatia (guest star Nina Dobrev). With the help of Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) is determined to find Elijah, who has gone missing, but is torn when she discovers that Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is also in trouble. Elsewhere, Cami (Leah Pipes) finds herself in a dangerous situation when Mikael (guest star Sebastian Roche) takes her hostage as a way to lure Klaus to him, and Davina (Danielle Campbell) makes an upsetting discovery about Kaleb’s (guest star Daniel Sharman) true identity. Lastly, a violent confrontation ensues when Klaus comes face-to-face with Mikael.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | TIFF 2014 Portrait

She knows the truth.

The adorableness. I can’t even.

I wanna see this video.

We remember Robin Williams—this week, and always: http://ow.ly/AhqD2

Photo Credit: Martin Schoeller/August

RIP

she has to be eliminated;

Love you!

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Is The VIX Saying Be Scared?

We are in the heart of the three most bullish months for the VIX and 2014 isn’t disappointing so far.  

I noted at the start of July that July was the most bullish month for the VIX historically.  It played out perfectly, as it soared +46.50% - the 7th largest monthly move since 1990!  

I’ve long been a guy who said the VIX is a mean-reverting instrument. Meaning, if it goes up a lot, it’ll eventually come back down and vice-versa.  Well, look at what has happened after some of the largest monthly VIX spikes ever.  The top 20 monthly surges ever pulled back just 1.19% that following month.  Didn’t expect this one, as more of a pullback was my guess.  

I’ll be the first to admit, just yesterday I noted how VIX futures became inverted and how this had been very bullish for the SPX in the near-term.  My big caveat was if it didn’t work fast, be very careful.  Well, so far we aren’t seeing any type of a meaningful bounce.  Then, considering the fact that the VIX doesn’t pullback much at all after huge monthly surges and we’re still in the heart of a very bullish time seasonally for the VIX, be open to higher volatility and a potentially lower market here.  Risk is much higher now, be aware.  

Thanks for reading.   

Photo thanks to Dan Anderson.

"Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz was a very famous Polish writer, and he adapted the story of the devils of Loudun for Polish circumstances. But it was a problem to make that particular film, because under Communism the state felt that the subject was too religious, while paradoxically the church felt that it was anti-Catholic. I wondered what crime I had committed! A film like Mother Joan of the Angels could only have been made in Poland in that particular political framework. […] I wanted the film to be about the nature of man, the nature that resists imposed restrictions and dogmas. The most important thing is the feeling we call love. Mother Joan of the Angels is, after all, a story of love between a priest and a nun.”

— Jerzy Kawalerowicz on Mother Joan of the Angels

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