Key indices across the U.S. equity market are testing their uptrend lines stemming from the February lows. It’s only fitting that today’s Chart Of The…
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Is This Widely Ignored Indicator Signaling Investor Complacency?
There has been a recent spike in the number of Unchanged Issues which has, at times, signaled too much investor complacency in the past. As…
Stock Market Levitation Hits Historic Heights
The S&P 500 is on a rare streak of closes near a 52-week high; can this bull run continue or will gravity take over? The…
No Complacency Among These Equity Options Traders
Unlike many of the sentiment indicators we’ve looked at recently, traders on one options exchange recently exhibited a record show of nervousness. We’ve written a…
Investor Complacency Is Smashing Records
Near-term volatility expectations are currently on a stretch of unprecedentedly low levels. About a month ago, we began to take note of investor complacency creeping…
Investors (Over?) Trim Their Hedges
Volume in inverse ETF’s has dropped to its 2nd lowest level in more than 5 years; have traders become too complacent? We have mentioned often…
Vice Tightens Further On Historic Stock Market Range
What does the S&P 500′s 2nd tightest 2-week trading range ever have in store for stocks? We’ve written quite a bit about the stock market’s…
An Unprecedented Jump In The VIX
While stocks have hit the skids a bit in the past few days, by comparison, volatility expectations have soared by an unprecedented amount. A few…
Options Traders (Over?) Trim Their Hedges
After displaying extreme caution just a month ago, equity options traders have trimmed back their hedges – perhaps too aggressively. Over the past few months,…
Options Traders Continue Their Unusual Hedging
While the stock market saw big gains yesterday, one options exchange reported a near-record level of relative put buying. One of the recent themes that…