Monday, July 31, 2017

HOLD YOUR BREADTH!!

Breadth, in Stock market terms, usually means strength of markets, such as Advancing stocks over Decliners, New Highs over Lows, etc. Last week the change on the NYSE was....+7 stocks. Otherwise, New Highs were strong on both markets, the New Market High treadmill keeps ramping UP - The Trend is your Friend, until it Bends at the End.
The Dollar seeks new recent lows, as other countries support their currencies with sharper rate hikes than our Fed. The end-of-month Margin Interest number is out, near record highs, thanks to the low rates.
Here are the numbers:

Date   7/28/2017 7/21/2017
Indices: DJIA  21830 21580
  NAZ  6374 6387
SPX  2472 2472
WklyVolume (Bshs). naz/ny…. .8/4.4 8.6/3.7
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish 2.23 2.32
Sentiment: put/call-CBOE  72 58
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8 10.3 9.4
DeltaMSI-50% MAC crossover 72.6 69.9
Advance/Dec-NYSE.. 1533/1526 1881/1182
Weekly Net: 7 699
     Cumulative: 179903 179896
Weekly  NYSE hi/low… 421/75 431/48
New Hi's/Low's Nasdaq h/l 432/146 393/122
McClellan  Oscillator -1 18
McClellanSum .+750/-1000 750 727
Newsletter Inv.Intel -Bull 60.2 57.8
Surveys-Tues Bear:-5yrs 16.5 16.7
Wed. AAII  -Bull  34.5 36
Bear  24.3 26
US$-WSJ 93.3 94
3-box rev Bullish%-  73 75
US equity -ICI Fund Flows weeklate (4.5B)
MMF flows Change in $B 23.3B (9.9B)
MargDebt- top (300M) monthly  539B JUNE
10-yr Tsy yield hi= stock buying 2.29 2.24
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation 1.35 1.34
TIP (ETF) Inflation 113.7 113.6

With record numbers of dollars coming out of Money Market Funds, mostly into the crowded trade of short term bonds, anyone who has a minimal knowledge of covered call options and/or an interest in hedging stock market exposure might want to check out: brentleonard.com for an alternative strategy that is low-risk as well as highly rewarding. For those of you wanting more details and actual trading results, a new book is available for $14.95 at Amazon.com: Zero (IN)Tolerance


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Monday, July 24, 2017

UPDATE TIME

One of my readers last week requested that I update and explain the Sentiment Indicators I post weekly on this site. Over the past decade I have deleted and added a few. None of these Contrary Opinion numbers are actionable by themselves, but taken together can warn of speculative emotions.
The Indices are self-explanatory w/w ( week over week); Volume is Nasdaq vs. NYSE, a speculative signal; the CBOE equity Put to Call ratio and VIX are fear guides.
A new Delta MACD crossover is a bullish ( above 50) number , similar to Bullish %, or stocks on a BUY signal; Breadth is signalled by Advance/Decline, along with cumulative -now near record highs; also New Highs and Lows on the NYSE and Nasdaq.
The McClellan Oscillator ( and cum. Summation) is also a chart of advance/declines in a formula. The AAII and Investors' Intelligence Bull/Bear ratios are contrary - the I I become harder to locate recently ( I might switch back to Rydex.
Margin Debt remains HUGE, what with low rates; fund flows measure public $$, what with the ETF monster sucking up much in Index funds - some coming from Index Mutual Funds!!! Finally, the 2 and 10- year Treas. rates can be used to forecast a Recession - for over a Century we have never had a 10-year period where a Recession did not happen, and it always had an inverted Yield Curve (backwardation, not Contango) -the spread is lessening recently, as is the 3-month to 10-year TSY.
TIPs measure Inflation which at present is nonexistent.
Here are the recent numbers:

 
Date 7/21/2017 7/14/17
Indices: DJIA  21580 21637
NAZ  6387 6312
SPX  2472 2459
WklyVolume (Bshs). naz/ny…. 8.6/3.7 8.6/3.8
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish 2.32 2.26
Sentiment: put/call-CBOE  58 61
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8 9.4 9.5
DeltaMSI-50% MAC crossover 69.9 58.9
Advance/Dec-NYSE.. 1881/1182 2174/902
Weekly Net: 699 1272
     Cumulative: 179896 179197
Weekly  NYSE hi/low… 431/48 323/83
New Hi's/Low's Nasdaq h/l 393/122 282/153
McClellan  Oscillator 18 29
McClellanSum .+750/-1000 727 594
Newsletter Inv.Intel -Bull na 50
Surveys-Tues Bear:-5yrs na 18.6
Wed. AAII  -Bull  36 28.2
Bear  26 29.6
US$-WSJ 94 95.1
3-box rev Bullish%-  75 73
US equity -ICI Fund Flows weeklate (2.1B)
MMF flows Change in $B (9.9B) 0
MargDebt- top (300M) monthly  540B
10-yr Tsy yield hi= stock buying 2.24 2.33
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation 1.34 1.36
TIP (ETF) Inflation 113.6 113

With record numbers of dollars coming out of Money Market Funds, mostly into the crowded trade of short term bonds, anyone who has a minimal knowledge of covered call options and/or an interest in hedging stock market exposure might want to check out: brentleonard.com for an alternative strategy that is low-risk as well as highly rewarding. For those of you wanting more details and actual trading results, a new book is available for $14.95 at Amazon.com: Zero (IN)Tolerance


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Monday, July 17, 2017

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

According to Tom Bowley of Stockcharts, for the past 20 years (1998 on) the worst 3 months of the year have been - July, Aug., and Sept. Averaging around 50% of the time being up for the month. Although we keep hitting new highs, Volume and Momentum seem to have caught the Summer malaise.
Sentiment seems to also be on Hold, with Extremes being the margin interest (down slightly from mo/mo record highs), and the Institutions (Wire house newsletters) wildly Bullish (3 : 1) , while us amateurs - AAII are dead even (Bulls and Bears. The yield Curve - 10-yr. Treas. vs. 3-month - is the lowest since 2006-8 when we had the sliding down market into the Recession.
Here are the numbers:

Date   ####### 7/7/2017
Indices: DJIA  21637 21414
  NAZ  6312 6153
SPX  2459 2425
WklyVolume (Bshs). naz/ny…. 8.6/3.8 6.6/3.0*
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish 2.26 2.2
Sentiment: put/call-CBOE  61 63
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8 9.5 11.2
DeltaMSI-50% MAC crossover 58.9 63.3
Advance/Dec-NYSE.. 2174/902 1418/1630
Weekly Net: 1272 -212
     Cumulative: 179197 177925
Weekly  NYSE hi/low… 323/83 229/96
New Hi's/Low's Nasdaq h/l 282/153 164/107
McClellan  Oscillator 29 -11
McClellanSum .+750/-1000 594 560
Newsletter Inv.Intel -Bull 50 52.5
Surveys-Tues Bear:-5yrs 18.6 18.8
Wed. AAII  -Bull  28.2 29.6
Bear  29.6 29.9
US$-WSJ 95.1 96
3-box rev Bullish%-  73 73
US equity -ICI Fund Flows weeklate (11.6B)
MMF flows Change in $B 0 4.7B
MargDebt- top (300M) monthly  540B May
10-yr Tsy yield hi= stock buying 2.33 2.39
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation 1.36 1.4
TIP (ETF) Inflation 113 112.4

With record numbers of dollars coming out of Money Market Funds, mostly into the crowded trade of short term bonds, anyone who has a minimal knowledge of covered call options and/or an interest in hedging stock market exposure might want to check out: brentleonard.com for an alternative strategy that is low-risk as well as highly rewarding. For those of you wanting more details and actual trading results, a new book is available for $14.95 at Amazon.com: Zero (IN)Tolerance


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Saturday, July 8, 2017

SAME OLD

Not much change over the mid-week Holiday. Indices were positive, breadth negative, Volume almost halved. The TIP did break down below 113, and short term Treasury rates jumped a bit.
Bull/Bear ratios still very strong on the Bull side, as investors pour $$ into ETFs now, mostly SPY.
Great interview of Burton Malkiel on this by Consuela Mack - Wealthtrack (PBS or .com).
Question is - which ends first?: Fed propping up the markets or Index fund Inflows, propping up weak as well as strong stocks in each Index.
Here are last week's numbers:
Date   7/7/2017 6/30/2017
Indices: DJIA  21414 21349
  NAZ  6153 6140
SPX  2425 2423
WklyVolume (Bshs). naz/ny…. 6.6/3.0* 10.7/4.4
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish 2.2 2.43
Sentiment: put/call-CBOE  63 66
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8 11.2 11.2
DeltaMSI-50% MAC crossover 63.3 61.6
Advance/Dec-NYSE.. 1418/1630 1688/1404
Weekly Net: -212 284
     Cumulative: 177925 178137
Weekly  NYSE hi/low… 229/96 297/57
New Hi's/Low's Nasdaq h/l 164/107 314/104
McClellan  Oscillator -11 0
McClellanSum .+750/-1000 560 584
Newsletter Inv.Intel -Bull 52.5 54.9
Surveys-Tues Bear:-5yrs 18.8 18.6
Wed. AAII  -Bull  29.6 29.7
Bear  29.9 26.9
US$-WSJ 96 95.7
3-box rev Bullish%-  73 72
US equity -ICI Fund Flows weeklate  (4.4B)
MMF flows Change in $B 4.7B 4.2B
MargDebt- top (300M) monthly  540
10-yr Tsy yield hi= stock buying 2.39 2.5
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation 1.4 1.38
TIP (ETF) Inflation 112.4 113.4

With record numbers of dollars coming out of Money Market Funds, mostly into the crowded trade of short term bonds, anyone who has a minimal knowledge of covered call options and/or an interest in hedging stock market exposure might want to check out: brentleonard.com for an alternative strategy that is low-risk as well as highly rewarding. For those of you wanting more details and actual trading results, a new book is available for $14.95 at Amazon.com: Zero (IN)Tolerance


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Sunday, July 2, 2017

RECESS TIME

Stocks backed off a bit and Breadth recovered slightly; speculative Volume ratio improved (Nas over NY).  Margin Interest declined for the first time in ages. Even MMF flows improved as equities funds flowed out the prior week. Here are the results - let the fireworks begin:

Date 6/30/2017 6/23/2017
Indices: DJIA  21349 21394
NAZ  6140 6265
SPX  2423 2438
WklyVolume (Bshs). naz/ny…. 10.7/4.4 12.5/5.4
Specul.Ratio hi=bullish 2.43 2.31
Sentiment: put/call-CBOE  66 59
VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8 11.2 10
DeltaMSI-50% MAC crossover 61.6 62.2
Advance/Dec-NYSE.. 1688/1404 1533/1556
Weekly Net: 284 -23
     Cumulative: 178137 177853
Weekly  NYSE hi/low… 297/57 368/187
New Hi's/Low's Nasdaq h/l 314/104 319/150
McClellan  Oscillator 0 -2
McClellanSum .+750/-1000 584 583
Newsletter Inv.Intel -Bull na 51.5
Surveys-Tues Bear:-5yrs na 19.4
Wed. AAII  -Bull  na 32.7
Bear  na 28.9
US$-WSJ 95.7 97.3
3-box rev Bullish%-  72 72
US equity -ICI Fund Flows weeklate (7.9B)
MMF flows Change in $B 4.2B (16.2B)
MargDebt- top (300M) monthly  540 549B
10-yr Tsy yield hi= stock buying 2.5 2.1
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation 1.38 1.35
TIP (ETF) Inflation 113.4 114.3

With record numbers of dollars coming out of Money Market Funds, mostly into the crowded trade of short term bonds, anyone who has a minimal knowledge of covered call options and/or an interest in hedging stock market exposure might want to check out: brentleonard.com for an alternative strategy that is low-risk as well as highly rewarding. For those of you wanting more details and actual trading results, a new book is available for $14.95 at Amazon.com: Zero (IN)Tolerance


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