Not a single source of pessimism
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Jason Goepfert
Published: 2021-02-17 at 09:00:00 CST
Options speculation is spiking yet again, volume in the most leveraged parts of the market has never been greater, and signs of euphoria are everywhere.
With so many indicators showing optimism, there are usually a couple of odd exceptions that suggest pessimism. It's rare for everything to agree at the same time. This is one of those rare times, though, with more than 50% of our core indicators showing an optimistic extreme and exactly 0% showing a pessimistic one.
This kind of lopsided skew among indicators has preceded some tough markets.
The Risk/Reward Table, which shows the biggest losses and largest gains at any point across the various time frames, shows limited upside relative to the downside, with 2017 really being the lone exception.
What else we're looking at
- An objective look at net speculation relative to overall volume among options traders
- What the put/call ratio looked like in the 1990s
- The Panic / Euphoria Model has never shown more "euphoria"
- Full returns following an extreme of extremes
- What happens when Dumb Money Confidence has been right for so long
- An in-depth update to the Tactical Composite Trend Model and what it's telling us now
- A primer on what you're getting into with options trading
- What happens to gold and miners after a long streak with the 50-day average above the 200-day
- Forward returns after a plunge like TLT has just suffered
| Stat Box For the first time in 544 days, the 50-day moving average on gold fell below the 200-day average, ending a Golden Cross and moving into a Death Cross. That ends the 5th-longest streak since 1975. |
Sentiment from other perspectives
Keep pumpin' those pink sheets. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone here, but trading activity in the most speculative parts of the market continues to skyrocket, with penny stock volume now on track for 2 trillion shares. Source: Bloomberg
Everyone in. Some of the biggest fund managers in the world are nearing all-in on equities. They are more than 60% overweight global stocks for only the 2nd time in over 20 years. Source: BofA via Bloomberg
No comment needed. This says everything about where we are in the cycle. Source: Crystal Tse
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