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…
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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…
Is Smart Money Holding A Record Bet On Volatility Rise?
Commercial hedgers – who are most often correctly positioned at market turns – are currently holding their largest ever net long position in VIX futures.…
A Big Victory For The “Average” Stock
An index tracking “average stock performance” just achieved an important milestone, surpassing its 2015 all-time high. In what is not our first and, apologetically, likely…
Active Managers Move All In On Stocks
For one of the few times in its history, a survey of active investment managers is showing an average of 100% exposure to stocks; is…
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…
Complacency Is Creeping Back Into The Stock Market
With stocks’ steady drift through all-time high territory, investors’ relative near-term volatility expectations have plummeted to near record lows. One of the hallmarks of the…
An Imminent Stock Market Top Would Be Unprecedented
The month of July has never played host to a major stock market top. With the major stock averages breaking out into all-time high ground,…
Stock Burst To New Highs Just The Beginning, Or Final Hurrah?
The S&P 500 just experienced an unprecedented burst to new high ground; will the move prove to be exhaustive or propel the index even higher?…