Have Stock Investors Gone Insane?
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018 Feb 03, 2018 - 09:13 AM GMT
This has the appearance of a Wave (iii) of a Leading Diagonal Wave [i]. Thus far it has not succeeded in making its Head & Shoulders target, but it may not be complete. This may be where the wheels fall off, so I am hesitant to put a label on the structure yet. It doesn’t look very good, does it?
ZeroHedge advises, “With positioning at extremes, and leverage at extremes, and valuations at extremes, Deutsche Bank's Binky Chadha raises the red flag as the correlation across asset-classes soars to record highs signaling extreme contagion risk.
Very strong momentum across asset classes has seen oil up, the dollar down, equities and bond yields up, with the average correlation between them rising to 90%.”
VIX is now above the neckline of its Head & Shoulder formation, confirming its buy signal. Is there anyone paying attention???
ZeroHedge blames it on the FISA memo release.
Bill Blain “can detect a shift in the Market.” Even the best analysts are still mumbling about, not ready to commit themselves to a sound judgement call on what’s going on. They have all gone temporarily insane.
The NYSE Hi-Lo Index is moving steadily down all day. There’s no doubt from our indicators that this is a confirmed sell…and probably a near panic situation.
As mentioned earlier, the USD bounce was stopped under the Cycle Bottom resistance at 89.43. It still has more decline to go.
ZeroHedge notes, “Strong 'headline' earnings growth (despite all the caveats) has sparked a hawkish tilt to trading sending bond yields higher and spiking the dollar index by the most since Jan 2017.
There's just one thing though...
The 0.9% spike in the dollar index is the most since January 18th 2017 and sounds impressive, but for a trader, it appears the spike is for fading as it hits the Trump Rescue highs and rolls over...”
On another note, I just got off the phone with my son who lives in Boston. He slipped on some black ice while coming home from work and broke his ankle bone. He is in surgery now and I may fly out over the weekend to be with him while he convalesces. I may not be able to write my Weekend Update as a result.
Regards,
Tony
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