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Momentum Traders' First Real Test

Jason Goepfert
2019-05-15
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Testing momentum

In early January, stocks registered a Zweig Breath Thrust when Up Volume quickly swung from oversold to overbought. This week, the indicator hit an oversold level for the first time, testing momentum traders’ conviction.

Other times that months passed between a thrust and the first oversold reading, upside momentum usually continued to win. The most impressive part of the signal was the low risk, with few of them seeing large declines at any point.

Picking up protection

According to a major bank survey, money managers are as hedged as they’ve been in more than a decade against a decline in stock prices. The knee-jerk contrarian in us wants to assume that’s a good sign for stocks, but it’s not that easy. Historically, stocks did better when hedging activity among this group was much lower than it is now.

Options oops

The Heatmap shows a big cluster of funds with exceptionally low optimism on a daily time frame. Chief among them is the Qatar fund, QAT, with an Optimism Index below 2. We don't see that too often. For that fund, it has triggered 5 other times, and rebounded all 5 times with an average gain of more than 13% over the next two months per the Backtest Engine.

Low optimism in high yield

The Optimism Index on HYG fell below 10 while the fund has held above its 200-day average. Per the Backtest Engine, that has led to a rebound over the next three months 88% of the time, with none of the four losses exceeding -3.2%.

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