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Correction expected for S&P

Thursday 14 November 2019 11:30 GMT

US stock market sentiment shows a high degree of bullish optimism and several signals suggest the market is heavily overbought, indicating a significant probability of a price pull-back for the short-term, according to Robert Colby, Chief Investment Strategist at Robert W. Colby Asset Management.

Colby points to sentiment indicators like the CNN Money Fear & Greed Index which jumped to an extremely overbought 91 last week, its highest level in more than 2 years (see Chart 1). Moreover, corporate insiders (officers, directors, and major stockholders) have been selling stocks of their own companies at the fastest pace in two decades (see Chart 2), which suggests the market is at its most overbought level since the dotcom bubble top in 2000. He recalls what happened the last three times the S&P 500 index rose to a new high:

1. On 9/21/2018, the S&P 500 index made a new intraday high at 2940.91, but 96 days later it had fallen to 2346.58, down 20.21%.
2. On 5/1/2019, the S&P 500 index made a new intraday high at 2954.13, but 33 days later it had fallen to 2728.81, down 7.63%.
3. On 7/26/2019, the S&P 500 index made a new intraday high at 3027.98, but just 10 days later it had fallen to 2822.12, down 6.80%.

Although overbought for the short-term, Colby stresses the S&P 500 remains systematically bullish for the long term, because price is above both the rising 50-day and the rising 200-day Simple Moving Averages (SMA), and the 50-day SMA is above the 200-day SMA. Though he says to keep in mind that trend following using moving averages always lags at price turning points.

See Chart 1 / Chart 2.

 

 

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