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$SPX is once again making new all-time highs. $SPX now has support at or near the 1950 area, which was the low of the most recent "correction." Below that there is support at 1925, where $SPX bottomed last week. The major support is at 1900, where a lot of work was done between March and May.
The feature article details a shortterm seasonal systems that lasts for just one week. It actually pertains to the week that is just ending, and we outlined the system in last week’s Hotline, using it to hold onto SPY puts. The full explanation of the system is in this issue, and we will employ this system again in the future.
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There is support for $SPX at or just below 1950. In addition, there is support at 1925 (the lows from a couple of weeks ago), and then there is major support at 1900.
The one deteriorating area among our main indicators is the equity-only put-call ratios. Both have started to rise over the past three days, and the weighted ratio is now officially on a sell signal.
This seasonal trade first came to my attention last year, but when I heard about it, the system had already been entered. So, I wrote it on my calendar for this year, and the time has arrived. As it turns out, it is one of the few confirmed bearish signals out there right now (no, I don’t count the myriad of overbought conditions as “confirmed bearish signals;” they would have to generate actual sell signals to be confirmed).
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Once again we see that nothing really can stop this bullish market. This week, there were three separate pieces of news/data that theoretically could have done so, but they had little effect.
So $SPX is now trading at new all-time highs. The "old" support level at 1900 is still in place, and now there is support at 1925 (last week's lows).
Equity-only put-call ratios remain solidly bullish, although they are very low on their charts (Figures 2 and 3) and are thus reaching overbought status.
...Volatility indices ($VXST, $VIX, and $VXV) literally collapsed yesterday. They were down in the morning after Tuesday’s somewhat surprising strength, but on Wednesday afternoon, they were really crushed. Short-term vol ($VXST) was down 16.7%, while $VIX was down 12% – pretty big moves. This has several implications. The first is that our “bearish demarcation” line of 13 for $VIX was pretty good.
The feature article discusses ways in which the market is “overbought,” from time spent above the 200-day moving average, to the time since a 10% correction has occurred, to the low state of the volatility indices. In essence, though, these are not sell signals, for the market can continue to rally even while it is overbought.
