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Hedge Funds Just Won't Buy

Jason Goepfert
2019-04-26
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Hesitant hedgies

Hedge funds have not been buying this massive rally. Across different hedge fund strategies, there is very little, or even negative, correlation to the movement in stocks, suggesting they are under-invested or even betting against the rally.

This is unusual, though it did happen in 2007-08 as well as the financial crisis unfolded.

Buck breakout

The U.S. dollar hit a fresh 2-year high this week. That's the first time in more than 600 days, the 8th-longest streak in the past 40 years.

The Dollar Index’s flat long-term trend means that most similar breakouts led to poor returns over the next 2-6 months. It was a mixed blessing for stocks and most sectors, while commodities suffered modestly, especially the Bloomberg Commodity Index.

Dow momentum

The McClellan Summation Index for the Dow Industrials has reached +1500. In the past 20 years, such a high level on this long-term breadth momentum indicator led to further gains in the Dow only 35% of the time three months later, according to the Backtest Engine.

Mom and pop stop

The individual, mom-and-pop investors in the AAII survey have ceased any idea of becoming bullish. Even with a new all-time high in the S&P 500 (using Wednesday closes, when the survey ends), there are fewer than 35% bulls in this week’s survey. This “wall of worry” led to below-average returns up to three months later, but six months later the S&P 500 was higher 82% of the time.

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