S&P 500 Streaks Are Dropping Like Flies
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Jason Goepfert
Published: 2021-10-12 at 07:35:00 CDT
At various points this year, the majority of stocks have trailed the major indexes. Sometimes, there was a wide divergence between what the average stock was doing versus, say, the S&P 500. Historically, that has preceded declines in the indexes, but 2021 has thrown a whole host of historical markers out the window.
Even so, the internal weakness was enough so that when the S&P actually did start to struggle over a month ago, some of its breadth metrics really struggled. The rally at the tail end of last week started to change that; the McClellan Oscillator for the S&P 500 has turned positive for the first time in a month.
The extended run below zero in the Oscillator caused the longer-term Summation Index to plunge, and it recently dived below its zero line for the first time in well over a year. The worst possible scenario for an index or sector is when its Summation Index is negative and declining - that's when the ugliest selloffs tend to occur.
The drop below zero ended the 4th-longest streak in positive territory for the Summation Index since 1926, and it missed making it into 2nd place by only a few sessions.
What else we're looking at
- Annualized returns in the S&P 500 since 1926 based on McClellan Summation Index regimes
- What happens after a long positive run in the Summation Index comes to an end
- An update on absolute and relative trends in industry, sector, and country ETFs
- Using the Backtest Engine to find opportunities in Smart Money and Dumb Money Confidence
| Stat box The 10-day realized volatility in the S&P 500 recent rose to its highest level in 90 days, the first time since 2017 that rose so high when the index as so near a multi-year high. |
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A hot market. Optimism in heating oil is close to eclipsing the highest it has been in over a decade.
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