The ISE Equity Call/Put Ratio has been under 100 for a record 3 consecutive days. As we have mentioned frequently, the task of weighing positive…
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If Beauty’s On The Inside, This Market Wins The Ugly Contest
We talk often about the importance we place on solid internals when gauging the health of the stock market. The more stocks that are advancing…
Options Hedging Hitting Extreme Levels
We have been seeing signs in the past few days of elevated levels of fear on the part of traders and investors. Yesterday’s post on…
Will Reversal Off 200-Day Moving Average Ignite Stocks?
Well that was quite a day. There was so much going on, from the potential “Grexit” to China’s cartoonish equity market to the meltdown in…
Individual Stocks Struggling To Keep Up With Nasdaq Rally
We have written many times regarding our belief in the importance of broad participation in a stock market rally. The greater the number of individual…
One Measure Of Stock Allocation Just Dropped The Most In 9 Years
**Update 7/24/15: The figures on AAII’s website related to their investment allocation survey were retroactively amended and no longer show the spike in cash levels…
Household Stock Investment Is At 2007 Levels
From today’s quarterly Z.1 release from the Federal Reserve Board comes one of our favorite statistics: “Households and nonprofit organizations; directly and indirectly held corporate…
Is Relative Spike In Nasdaq Internals A Major Buy Signal?
We spend quite a bit of time researching (i.e., messing around with) various data sets looking for an edge in the markets. In this pursuit,…
A Record “Close But No Cigar” Streak For Stocks
If it feels like stocks have been hanging near their highs for a long time without being able to break out, you aren’t imagining things.…
Are Stocks Due For A Big Move?
With last month’s failed (so far) breakout in the U.S. equity market, stocks are relegated once again to range-bound status. Essentially the market has gone…