Bullish Fund Assets Double Bears For 1st Time Since 2001
We’ve talked about various measures of investor sentiment quite often recently. To reiterate, these indicators measure either what investors say they are doing or what…
Tail Risk Indicator Back To Extreme Levels
2014 may well eventually be known for its buildup of various warning signs in the stock market. While the trigger that brings such warnings to…
Big Gaps To New Highs Bring Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain
Lately it seems as though this market is producing unusual, and at times unprecedented, price action on a daily basis. Friday was no exception. Thanks…
U.S. Stocks are 2nd Most Overbought In History Everyone knows that, as a whole, the U.S. stock market is overbought. At the moment it doesn’t…
Rising Junk Bond Yields Signaling Long-Term Trouble?
Many commentators have highlighted the potential warning signs related to the high yield, or “junk”, bond market. We have ourselves pointed to the troubling issues…
Another Odd Large Cap-Small Cap Divergence
Another day, another piece of evidence of this strange, divergence-littered market environment. The subject of today’s Chart Of The Day is once again the small…
Some Vexing Behavior From The VIX
While the S&P 500 scored another all-time high on Monday, the market once again sent signals that it may not be a smooth ride ahead…
Stock Option Bulls Go Streaking
One method of analyzing stock market sentiment is by measuring activity in the options market. The benefit of this type of analysis is that, contrary…
Yesterday Was One of the Ugliest “Up” Days in History
At yesterday’s close the major averages, S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite, were all in the green. However, despite the fact that…
Is The Rampant Bullish Sentiment Really A Bad Thing?
Given the combination of now wide-open lines of investor communication and a proliferation of new investor engagement metrics, the topic of market sentiment has really…