Thursday, May 17, 2012

BELATED BLOG:

Back from a 4 city vacation with family and friends, here are the results from last week's Sentiment readings:
Markets down 6% so far; CBOE put/call ratio up to 88 with the McClellan Oscillator @ minus 50 - both Bullish. The AAII Bull/Bear still inverted (more Bears), also Bullish.


Date>
5/11/2012 5/4/2012
Indices: DJIA  12820 13038
  NAZ  2933 2956

SPX  1353 1369
NASD/NYSE WklyVolume (Bshs). 9.7/4.1 9.0/4.1
nasd/nyse Specul.Ratio hi=bullish 2.37 2.20
Sentiment: put/call-CBOE  88 69
Barron's VIX>50-alltmlow=8.8 19.9 19.2

Advance/Dec-NYSE.. 1238/1937 1023/2149

Weekly Net: -699 -1126

     Cumulative: 131903 132602
Weekly  NYSE hi/low 191/144 363/82
New Hi's/Low's Nasdaq h/l 163/223 281/151
McClellan  Oscillator -50 -1
McClellan Sum .+750/-1000 -50 276
Newsletter Inv.Intel -Bull:tues 38.7 43
Surveys Bear:-5yrs 20.4 20.4

AAII  -Bull :wed. 25.4 35.4

Bear  42.1 36.1
COT:Change w/w large/small (net)k 3/(6) 11/(6)
CEOinsider selling 30:1 46:1
BalticDryIndex GlobalEcon 1138 1156
3-box rev Bullish%-  59 71
US equity -ICI Fund Flows (2.4B) 1 wk lag
MMF flows Change in $B 1.2B (14.8B)
MargDebt- top (300M) monthly 

ETF:Eqty/Int'l/Bond  million$$ .  
2-yr Tsy Yield: Inflation 0.31% 0.27%
Euro futures 1 yr.offset-CommHedg 5.4 5.1

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