Charts to Make You Go: 'ARGGHHHH'

A painful paradigm shift.

Climbinb a wall of worry.

Photographer: ADAM DEAN
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Investors climbing a (Chinese?) wall of worry on Thursday probably don't need to add to its bulk.

Nevertheless, Matt King has a smorgasbord of ugly charts to share. In an aptly-timed note, the Citigroup strategist suggests markets are "dangerously close to a paradigm shift" that would entail the end of liquidity-fueled markets and a "return to fundamentals." The only problem is "those fundamentals are themselves following markets."