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SPY Volume Back To 2010 Lows As Equity Mutual Funds Run Out Of Cash
At 112.8 million shares traded, the SPY just recorded its lowest volume day for 2010. One of the possible reasons for this: mutual funds are rapidly running out of cash to buy stocks. As Bloomberg notes, "equity mutual funds are burning
through cash at the fastest rate in 18 years, leaving them with
the smallest reserves since 2007 in a sign that gains for the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may slow. Cash dropped to 3.6 percent of assets from 5.7 percent in
January 2009, leaving managers with $172 billion in the quickest
decrease since 1991, Investment Company Institute data show. The
last time stock managers held such a small proportion was
September 2007, a month before the S&P 500 began a 57 percent
drop, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."
The chart below shows that the entire upswing in ES has occurred on below average volume!
David Rosenberg also has something very comparable to say:
The VIX is at 17; the TED spread at 8bps; CDS has tightened in to six-week lows; the nasdaq and small cap indices have broken out to new recovery highs; oil is back above $82/bbl … and, as charts below from the ICI illustrates, portfolio managers have been so nervous to miss any up-moves that they have run down their cash holdings to 3.6% of assets from nearly 6% a year ago — the largest decline in 19 years. Equity cash ratios are back to where they were in September 2007, just as the stock market was hitting its peak.
Ironically, Bloomberg and Rosie seem to have some rather strikingly comparable (verbatim) thoughts.
Is this merely the preamble to rotation from Fixed Income funds into equities? With a near 70% bounce from the lows, and with fixed income investors traditionally far more cautious than the equity variety, we would be somewhat skeptical to say this is even a remote option.
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Bring it on Dude! Consumer spending up, housing gifts up, US debt up, Carry Trade On/Up....
Let's bring this to completion, hey? Can't wait to see SPY test coming soon and then, well, then we'll know for sure if this is a "real" move or not. 'Cause many models suggest we turn down hard but probably NOT without some news,,,,'cause otherwise, yes otherwise, BUY BUY BUY!!
Nah, not really drunk just in shock that this could happen. It feels like we're living in a Synthetic world.
OK, I'm drunk. Good luck everyone! Love ya ZH!
Banks are offering 0.5% who the hell would be in cash now? Except for me. I'm paying off all my debts and hoarding cash for the next defationary pop.
Umm, not sure it's going to happen this way again. Beware.
Once the next correction happens (not inconceivable sub S&P 600), markets may actually normalize as the world will then be different yet again. In other words, don't expect another liquidity swell unless you're talking about QE II now.
You are thinking it will go to 600 - and stay there - for some time. Say 5-10 years?
Falling knife catching... if the first time didn't work.....
Maybe this next fall will take us to fair value (sub 500 IMHO). Then my cash reserves will break out!
484, to be exact...
Now, as far as timing...
Wait, my pot roast is burning!
Man, this just makes me want to hit all of those Jim Cramer buttons at once.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/18724672/
If you hit baby and then shotgun and then decapitate while thinking about how big a baby Cramer is, it satisfies primal urges of savage blood shed.
Gotta love the (bearish) wishful thinking in the last chart (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/mado...). (And why is the name "madoff" in the link address?)
uh oh! them mutual fund managers are just squirrels trying to get some nuts, and now we have some bad news...there are no more nuts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfh4Mhp-a6U
Wow...
REITs, consumer stocks, tech leading again.
Gold being sold, the dollar being bought.
What else is new??
Piling into bankrupt office building REITs again??
Everyone loves their "Crackberries"...
Remember Travel Zoo from 2004???
Dang, forgot what I was gonna post....wow!
Something about FDO.
Thank you God for making women that look like that.
As my German fried once said "They all have to be fucked."
I think a huge reversal is at hand. Not that Cisco is not going to go through the roof over the next year, but Macys? I mean, Macys. wow. as far as gold, Asia bought at $1135 last night so obviously NY took the price down for themselves. Buy low, sell high. As for the doelarr, she is treading water at 80 before she gets officially Double Xrossed. Y? Because they don't like you!
Is that a Robot Zipper allowing for sand free movement?
Sometimes I ask myself
'Lord, why did you have to make women so goddam BEAUTIFUL'
and then He answers, which is myself of course, my uber powerful megalomaniac grandiouse self of maximum power and authority over the earth, the stars, and the heavens above, and I say
Cuz without 'em, there would be no beauty period.
Only a bunch of fucking guys running around
with their sausages dangling like a bunch of
gay nature boys cavorting in some greco-roman
hollywood movie. And that would be pretty ugly.
-MB
The market is poised to take a quick, painful, nose-dive...just like this zipper right here.
RIMM fill that gap to 82 ?
TEAR ZOOM EJ oh. my. god. did someone's black box hit a magnetic field?
... and my day?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCK4jkqQxA
thats the first thing I thought too, when I saw that zipper (nose dive)
i just went long.
first, i'd piss on you and then next, I'd cornhole you!
just because the cash reserves are at the same levels does not imply there will be a drop of the same proportion. Yea, it is going to be harder to keep going up, may be sideways for a while but no big drops unless a country defaults or there is another war
but no big drops unless a country defaults or there is another war
sorry to see that you have elected to forgo even the most basic reading of economic history.
Market slides Tues through Friday ....
I was also going to say something, then well---- never mind
I wonder how many good thoughts and comments have been lost due to Robots posts. They are so thought provoking!!
Long after the humans are gone solar powered quant bots will still be trading numbers and optimizing algos across self repairing networks.
WGO up $2 in 3 days. Up 320% in 52 wks. Jesus they must be really selling those winnebagos or there some deal we don't know about.
http://midasfinancialmarkets.blogspot.com/2010/03/forex-e-sp500-no-ponto...
Hope u like some forex charts and SP500. Fast movements soon on some assets.
Man that is the most enticing zipper I have seen for a long time.
All Ponzi schemes end when they run out of cash. Keep it simple.
So does this mean that if mutual funds get a call on the funds that they have leveraged we will see the markets moving downwards at last.!
except now goldman and others have unlimited access to the discount window. so the past isn't a guide to the future.
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