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Copper And Margin Debt Not What They Seem

Jason Goepfert
2019-05-29
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Copper bowled over

Copper prices have dropped nearly 10% from their peak, which is unnerving those investors who trust it as a leading indicator for global demand.

As a predictor for future stock returns, declines like this have been mixed, with usually positive returns. For copper itself, it wasn’t a good sell signal, either, with a positive return across all time frames. The dollar did struggle a bit over the next 1-3 months, so as a sign of slowing growth, that may be where to focus instead of stocks.

Can’t borrow enough

Debt using stock as collateral has started rising again, but it’s not growing nearly as fast as stocks are. We’ve seen for years how this difference in growth rates has suggested a lack of excess enthusiasm, unlike 2000 and 2007, and now it’s down to pessimistic territory.

Returns going forward were good, especially over the medium-term, with an 89% win rate over the next 2-3 months, better-than-random returns, and at least a 3-to-1 reward-to-risk ratio.

Ugly action

The S&P managed to jump in the morning, adding minor gains, then reversed hard and closed down by more than 0.5% and at a multi-month low. That looks ugly on a chart, but it has not consistently led to meaningful declines.

Negative momentum

Underlying momentum in most indexes, domestic and overseas, has been solidly positive all year. That’s starting to change, and the McClellan Summation Index for the German DAX just went negative for the first time in several months. It’s better for stocks when this is positive, which seems likely – after the other times the Index for the DAX turned negative after months in positive territory, it showed only one negative return 3 and 6 months later.

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