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Traders Are Panicking The Most Since The Financial Crisis

Jason Goepfert
2019-05-16
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More momentum miscues

Signs of waning momentum are everywhere. One of the more impressive signs of intense underlying buying was in the Dow Industrials, where the McClellan Summation Index held above 1,000 for nearly three months, until now.

Other times that extreme momentum finally ended over the past 20 years, it saw limited downside in the months ahead.

Abandon ship

Losses in the major averages over the past couple of weeks have been relatively mild as selloffs go. But investors have been spooked, perhaps by persistent opening losses. An array of index, sector, and country ETFs have lost more than $20 billion in assets, as pre-market losses have neared the extremes seen during the financial crisis.

Not just the Dow

Long-term breadth momentum has rolled over not just in the Dow, but also in many overseas indexes. For the Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite, their long runs above the zero line have ended. While that has been more of a good sign than bad in U.S. indexes, for the Shanghai, in particular, that has led to mostly poor results going forward.

Getting better

Smart Money Confidence is over 50% for the first time in more than 3 months. Other times it took at least 3 months to get over 50%, stocks struggled a bit in the short-term, but were higher 71% of the time two months later. That’s not extraordinary, but it’s a lot better than a month ago.

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