Divergence Between Stock Market Indexes: What’s next for Stocks
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018 Oct 04, 2018 - 02:11 PM GMTBy: Troy_Bombardia
Small cap stocks have significantly underperformed large cap stocks recently.
Yesterday, I demonstrated that this divergence tells you that the bull market’s top is probably 1 year away.
However, this divergence typically means that the bull market’s rally still has some room left (e.g. approximately 6-12 months). As we all know, the stock market can go up a lot during the final 6-12 months of its bull market.
These 2 charts demonstrate the Russell 2000’s divergence vs. the Dow over the past few days.
We can look at this divergence from various angles.
The Dow has gone up 2 days in a row to an all-time high while the Russell fell 2 days in a row. Historically, the U.S. stock market’s 2-6 month forward returns have been bullish.
The S&P is now within 0.4% of its all-time high while the Russell is >4.5% below its all-time high. Historically, the U.S. stock market’s 6-12 month forward returns have been bullish.
And lastly, the Dow has gone up 4 days in a row while the Russell has fallen 3 out of the past 4 days. Once again, the U.S. stock market’s 6-12 month forward returns have been bullish.
Conclusion
Lately, our market studies have been a little more mixed than during the first 8 months of this year. We have some bullish studies and some bearish studies for the U.S. stock market.
But the overarching theme remains the same:
Bull market rally into 2019, and a major top somewhere in mid-2019. This is similar to projections from the Medium-Long Term Model and the Long Term Risk Model.
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By Troy Bombardia
I’m Troy Bombardia, the author behind BullMarkets.co. I used to run a hedge fund, but closed it due to a major health scare. I am now enjoying life and simply investing/trading my own account. I focus on long term performance and ignore short term performance.
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