Investor Net Worth Evaporating Much Like 2000, 2007 and 2011
We apologize in advance for simply regurgitating a piece of SentimenTrader analysis. Sure enough, it’s a cop-out to do so and a highly unoriginal, non value-added exercise. That said, every once in awhile it’s worth passing along. On Friday they pointed…
The Conundrum that is Gold (To Bubble or Not to Bubble?)
Let’s continue to beat a dead horse. Is gold a bubble? If so, did the bubble run end in September 2011 when gold peaked around ~$1,900? We know that thus far, if gold was a bubble and the run ended…...
Survey of the Set-up in Sugar
I’m buying sugar. I present the CoT report which shows commercial with its largest net long since 2008 and one of its largest net longs ever. The inverse is true for large specs. Small specs have their largest net short…...
What can We Learn From Rasheed Wallace?
For your viewing pleasure, we present a recent clip from an NBA game in which long-time league veteran Rasheed Wallace gets ejected for mouthing off to refs. The amount of market-applicable knowledge in the classic quote Wallace provides toward the…
This Stock Sits on Decade Long Support and Analysts Don’t Like It
What stock is this? The last time it hit the support line in the chart below rallies of 3.5x and 2.3x quickly ensued. We find the set-up similar to the one in HHS which we originally posted about here and…
Investors Are Loading Up on Stocks Again…Run for the Hills
Per SentimenTrader, the three month flow into mutual funds and ETFs is at an all-time high in the chart below. Time to run for the hills and ring the crash sirens again!
Long Gone from the Headlines, Be Prepared for This Country to Heat up Again
The chart below shows the Greece General Share Index. Note the well-behaved downward-sloping channel that it’s traded in since 2006. Large sell-offs occur at the top of the channel and large rallies at the bottom. The global equity bottom in…...
The AAPL Experience Highlights the Zero-Sum Nature of Financial Markets
There’s a certain unnamed economic blogger out there that loves to highlight the following maxim in rejecting the “excess cash on the sidelines” argument so incessantly tossed around in the financial media as a data point supporting the likelihood of…
Sentiment Round-Up
With the market’s incessant lurch higher of late it seems appropriate to do a sentiment round-up. I’m not going to editorialize the charts/data points below, but simply present them, with descriptions of what they are where appropriate, and let you…...
Sentiment
I did not Photoshop or doctor Yahoo Finance’s home page today. This snippet was taken at 1PM EST. See highlights for relevant sentiment. No additional commentary needed.