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Buying So Eager It's Never Been Seen Before

Jason Goepfert
2020-02-06
S&P 500 futures have been gapping up every day. The McClellan Summation Index has been positive for more than a year.

Early and aggressive

Buyers keep coming into stocks before regular trading hours. Before each of the past 3 sessions, buyers pushed S&P 500 futures up at least 0.45% before the open.

S&P 500 futures gaps

With a new all-time high by the close, this kind of buying pressure has never been seen before.

Since the inception of the futures in 1982, there have only been a few times when buyers were so eager that they pushed the futures up at least 0.25% before regular trading hours for three sessions in a row. Each of them preceded losses in the futures either 1 or 2 months later, but at this point it seems like any historical precedents are strictly “FWIW.”


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McClellan Summation

The U.S. stock market's rally since December 2018 has been very persistent, causing long term breadth indicators like the McClellan Summation Index to stay consistently positive.

McClellan Summation Index

It has now been above the zero line for more than a year, marking its 4th-longest stretch since 1962.

The 3 other times the McClellan Summation Index was positive for so long, stocks either fell immediately, or melt-up and then tanked.

McClellan Summation above 0 for a year

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