We’ve written a few posts about 90% Volume Days in the past. As a refresher, we are referring to days when at least 90% of…
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Options Traders Growing Their Hedges
Last Thursday, we mentioned that traders in equity options on the International Securities Exchange exhibited a rare (though recently, less-so) display of cautious behavior on back…
Are Bears Missing The Forest For The Trees?
With all of the concerns that we and others have mentioned recently regarding the current health of the stock market, sometimes the big picture can…
Equity Options Traders Head For The Hills Again
Due to its unique construction, the International Securities Exchange Equity Call/Put Ratio (ISEE) has become a favorite indicator of ours for highlighting short-term inflection points in…
Is Weakness In Consumer Discretionary Vs. Staples A Red Flag?
The economic cycle provides an outline for which parts of the cycle favor which sectors of the market. And while we are not economists, a…
New High-New Low Warning Triggered Again
In early December, we took a look at a variation of the notorious “Hindenburg Omen”, a supposed signal of forthcoming trouble in the market. For those…
Bearish Fund Bets Hit All-Time Low
We have discussed measures of market sentiment on many occasion. These measures take the pulse of the collective mood on the part of a particular…
The VIX Is Going The Wrong Way
Whenever I hear the words “you’re going the wrong way”, I immediately think of the classic scene from Trains, Planes & Automobiles when Steve Martin…
Why Is VIX Volatility At Crisis Levels?
In this era of financial engineering, we have new ways of measuring all matters of behavior in the markets. We have derivatives and 2nd derivatives…
Are Bonds A Better January Barometer For Stocks?
The seasonal stock market platitudes surrounding the market’s performance in January have been pretty much covered ad nauseam at this point, particularly given the ominous…