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Surge In Trading Leverage Triggers Bank Of America Contrarian Sell Signal
Leverage, as measured by NYSE Margin Debt, rose a huge 31.6% year-on-year (YOY) and 10.2% month-over-month (MOM) to $364bn in January, compared to the July 2007 peak of $381bn. Net Free Credits at -$77.2mm (essentially cash balances in margin accounts) have plunged to levels (and at a rate) that BofAML believes generates a sell signal and typically result in market correction. The last time a (2-standard-deviation) sell signal like this was generated was on April 2010 and the S&P 500 subsequently corrected by 16% in two months. While the US equity market has not responded to at or near overbought or contrarian bearish sentiment levels very recently (remaining overbought for weeks) BofAML also notes a tactical sell signal was just triggered that is similar to those from September 14 and April 27, 2012 – both preceded market pullbacks.
Margin Debt is soaring (as NYSE Cash balances collapse)...
at a rate that has trigger contrarian sell signals as its rapidity is a 2-standard-deviation rise...
Short-term Sentiment has also shifted bearish...
So if you were wondering where the 'money on the sidelines' is - it's all-in - again!
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Wake me up when JPig Morgan is found floating down the Hudson river.
Let's hope Dick Bove wore his "do not resuscitate" badge to work today.
Dear BAC,
POMO, QE4eva, Kevin, 3pm ramp.
Sincerely,
Ben
But Tyler - isnt this the New Normal ?
If Goldman comes out and contradicts BofAML, then I'll know it's time to sell..........
Maybe it's just a sell signal on Bank of America Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith Pelosi Reid McConnell Boehner Paul Lew Brennan & Durden ... did I leave out anybody?
A good article from Reuters. Things are still declining for the middle class and lower.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100546261
The Money on the sidelines is being printed DAILY!!
Who says they can't short with that moolah??
You know D.E. Shaw, Paulson, and at least a few others are short.
...
Ahhhh....and now...to sit back, maybe make some popcorn...and just watch and enjoy the afternoon ramp...
We're still bound in a long term range just like in the 1970s. Valuations are nowhere near the late 1970s (overall P/E at 6) and we're at the upper end of the current range.
Uh, I think you are supposed to exclude the negative P/Es from the mean.
But... but... if I'm over-leveraged & long stawks, Ben promised I would never lose moneh? :'(
Dow will close green again...
Money on the sidelines....lol.
Cdad's BlowHorn [CNBC] unwatchable indicator is now pushing through the 100% unwatchable mark...where EVERYDAY THE MARKET IS OPEN is a GREAT DAY TO BUY STAWKS!
The sell signal is confirmed by the various and absurd proposed catalysts that will take the market higher EVERYDAY THE MARKET IS OPEN, including...
"The market will continue higher." ...wishful thinking as a catalyst, currently the most popular The BlowHorn
"Where else can you put your money?"...the Question as Catalyst
"The market is still cheap compared to bonds." ...the compared-to-nothing catalyst, or the compared-to-Bernanke-bid
"Don't fight the Fed." ...the cliche as catalyst [which oddly would favor buying bonds in a front running effort]
"Another new all time high" ...the sucker's catalyst, also know as the idiot to your left catalyst
And here comes Maria "I lost my intellectual curiosity years ago" Bartiromo to bring it all home with a bull/bull/bull debate in the closing hour.
and...
"the market well off it's lows."...the all clear signal to buy buy buy n take a ride on the POMO train.
"Housing has bottomed."
"Greece has bottomed."
"Europe has bottomed."
"Now that QE is OFF the table.."
"Now that QE is back ON the table.."
Earnings "better than expected."
"Corporations will start hiring"
"It's not too late to get in"
"There's more room to the upside."
The "Global Growth Story remains intact"
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
Dividend payers will start giving "MOAR cash back to shareholders"
When will we start seeing "cash buy-backs?"
"Put your money to work"
"Corporate profits at all time highs"
"The Stawk Market is a forward looking indicator"
It's not all the Fed... "It's the strong underlying fundamentals"
"Limited Head-winds"
"Need to be positioned for the GREAT-ROTATION"
"The American Consumer is RESILIENT"
"What's all this shareholder ACTIVISM? Is this a witch hunt"
"What's with all this POPULISM? What is it exactly that these people WANT? Don't they know the banks paid the taxpayers BACK?"
"hahahahahahahahahahaha, back to you Bob"
golf clap to you and Cdad (after I finish vomitting)...
Money on the sidelines? Maybe not
http://www.contraryinvestor.com/mo.htm
So...they're borrowing cheap money so they can gamble? Is this the takeway? Then it sounds like, "recovery" or not, American corporations are going to collapse. Is this what you are telling me?
and prepare for the market to get overbought'er than it already was...rally time!!!
It's all bout the spice...must keep the spice flowing. Trust Ben, he'll keep the spigots flowing and this time there is no end!!!
BTW - QE is kinda like the Die Hard series (1,2,3,4,5)...long as John McClane (aka Ben Bernanke) lives, the franchise goes on and on and on...And like any Die Hard movie, everybody knows how it will end as the "market" is "saved" again from the "bad guys". Market rip to finish the day jus cus they can and probly like showing off a little...
ugh.
BTFD, right? So long as BenJammin is at the helm no one will lose money in the market.
Cramer said this market has legs......and that's all that matters.
The market or Maria?
legs of those sitting in wheel chairs......the man is a Caricature of himself...
this bitch maria bartaromo, is fucking so happy how we may continue the streak of the dow on tv.
i want to punch her, the volume is so low, this market does not even matter anymore until the crash happens and the fed stops qe for good
Damn you man for even uttering those words "stops QE for good"...click your heels together and say it with me, there is no place like QE, etc. etc.
"Elizabeth, this is the big one..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdi-1tIUhM no ordinary sell signal or overvaluation will do for this market...we're going for world guiness stuff this time. Buckle up, up, up.
"The last time a (2-standard-deviation) sell signal like this was generated was on April 2010 and the S&P 500 subsequently corrected by 16% in two months"
The absolute volue of margin debt doesn't have anything to do with the market direction. The 10 month roc in RRs (proxy for real-output) fell 9 percentage points from Arpil - May 2010. This year the deceleration will be much slower. This is a buy & hold investor market.
Where is the Feb data?
Just watch the FOMC.
If the easing continues, the market will keep on going up, since the money doesn't have anywhere else to go.
If the easing stops, the market will crash hard and the easing will restart, so there is no alternative but up and away...
Even if it is all hot air...
When the crash comes it will from some world event like NC attacking SC and then nothing will stop the market going down, since the mistrust will accelerate and feed on itself. DJI at 4000 is possible at that point.
As I've said before QE ad infinitum creates instability, watch for the black swan event that brings the card castle down.
Until next time,
Engineer
I am 20% cash because i think a large dip is due. I doubt that i will catch the bottom, but i have to be in cash buy dips or just be a spectator.