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Indecision Continues

Published on April 27, 2013 by DownsideHedge in Market Comments, Twitter Sector Sentiment, Twitter Stock Sentiment, Twitter Support and Resistance

Over the past week our core market health indicators improved slightly, but didn’t move enough to change our portfolio allocations. Market Positives Once again the market ignored bad news. It won’t matter until it matters… What else can we say? Our measures of risk are still positive, but didn’t recover with the move up in the S&P 500 Index (SPX) last week. Market participants are starting to recognize that a small dip could turn into something larger. Nevertheless, risk levels are positive which gives the market room to rise. Mixed Signals The Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) finally recovered with SPX, however it is still below the peak made last September so we consider it mixed. The Russell 2000 Index (RUT) regained its 50 day moving average, but has a very short term series of lower highs and lower lows. These conditions need to clear before we’ll believe higher prices in the broader market. Measures of breadth like the percent of stocks above their 50 and 200 day moving averages continue

Tags: ndx, rut, spx, xlb, xle, xlf, xli, xlk, xlp, xlu, xlv, xly

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Market Tops Give You Plenty of Time

Published on April 22, 2013 by DownsideHedge in Eating Cat, Market Comments

Recently I’ve seen a lot of people mention on Twitter and various blogs that the market doesn’t give you time to get out at tops. I have to politely disagree. If you’re an intermediate or long term investor the market will almost always give you warning that it is preparing to consolidate. As an example, here is one of our early warning posts from last October. Often the first warning signs are well ahead of the actual top, so the key to successful investing is in waiting for the weight of evidence to turn before making major changes to your portfolio. Here at Downside Hedge we move money slowly as market conditions change. From mid February we’ve been seeing signs of deteriorating market conditions. Our canaries in a coal mine post on 2/19 highlighted some of the deterioration that we’ve been seeing. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) was trading near 1520 at the time. SPX is now near 1565 and most of those conditions are still in place. For a

Tags: def, eem, rut, spx

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15 Most Bearish Stocks on Twitter

Published on April 2, 2013 by DownsideHedge in Twitter Stock Sentiment

Below are the stocks with the most bearish intensity (volume and scores) on Twitter for both the past week and past month.

Tags: aapl, big, cat, clf, dow, gld, hpq, ice, iwm, jcp, ms, rut, slv, spx, xlf

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IWM Needs to Consolidate

Published on January 15, 2013 by DownsideHedge in Twitter Stock Sentiment

We posted last week that Twitter Sentiment for IWM was diverging from price and that small cap stocks would likely consolidate before moving a lot higher. As of the close yesterday, smoothed sentiment for IWM has now had a divergence from price and also broken the confirming uptrend line. This meets the Twitter sentiment trade setup requirements we’ve observed before. As we mentioned in that post, don’t trade these setups because we don’t have a large enough sample set to know if they’re valid or profitable. In addition, this setup is a trade against the intermediate and long term trend for IWM. Trades against the trend are much more likely to fail and they also have much higher risk than reward potential. What this signal is telling us is that IWM will most likely consolidate for a more than just a few days. This is because sentiment from traders has turned from a bullish bias to a bearish bias. Momentum stalled with the negative divergence, then it turned down with

Tags: iwm, rut

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QQQ and IWM vs. TLT

Published on January 10, 2013 by DownsideHedge in Bonds, Market Comments, Twitter Stock Sentiment

Today we want to highlight three charts that give a pretty good picture of the current conditions in the market. They are for the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), The Russell 2000 (IWM), and Long Term Bonds (TLT). Since the first of December, Twitter Sentiment for QQQ has been painting a triangle pattern. During the same time period price is forming a megaphone. These two conditions together show some indecision for the Nasdaq 100 Index. We’re seeing slowing momentum in sentiment that could be pointing to a head and shoulders pattern forming (with the trend line we’ve drawn as the neckline). It’s still to early to tell which direction QQQ is going to break, but sentiment should give us a clue over the next few weeks as it reaches the apex of its triangle. IWM has a much stronger price pattern with sentiment confirming its current move. However, there is a short term divergence with price that suggests IWM needs to pause for a bit before going substantially higher. Small stocks aren’t

Tags: iwm, ndx, qqq, rut, tlt

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Rotation to Big Caps?

Published on September 24, 2012 by DownsideHedge in Market Comments

We’re starting to see some rotation out of small caps, technology, and the general market into big cap stocks. At this point we’re not sure if it is merely profit taking and re-balancing of portfolios or if it represents distribution and a flight to safety. It is one of the things we’ll be watching closely over the next few weeks. If the trend continues it will be one more sign that the current rally is loosing steam. Add that to the Dow Jones Transports trying to break critical support and we should start seeing the market rounding out a top. Of course, if the transports hold, as they did today, and the short term rotation to big caps turns out to be re-balancing then the market is simply setting up for the next run higher. Keep an eye on RUT, NDX, and DJIA over the next few weeks as they will provide clues to the next market move.

Tags: djia, rut

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Russell 2000 Outperforming

Published on September 4, 2012 by DownsideHedge in Market Comments

At the end of July we posted our concern about the Russell 2000 not confirming the uptrend in the S&P 500 Index. We mentioned that we’d like to see RUT close above 818. Today we got that close. We view the strength over the past two weeks in RUT vs. SPX as confirmation of the up trend. Our view was helped by the reversal off the lows this morning by all of the major indexes. Our Twitter Sentiment indicator for RUT (show in the top panel above) is also showing some encouraging signs as the smoothed indicator spent the last several days above zero. It appears that smoothed sentiment is forming a higher high which is confirming the move in the index. A few more days above 818 will add more evidence that we should be moving high enough on SPX to break out above the recent range. For now it is one more thing making us comfortable with our 60% long exposure in our

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Russell 2000 Not Confirming Uptrend

Published on July 31, 2012 by DownsideHedge in Market Comments

It’s always a little disconcerting when the Russell 2000 doesn’t confirm an up move in the S&P 500. It tells us that risk isn’t really back on yet and that this might just be a correction of the move down from the early April high. Looking at the chart you could see RUT stalling in March and now it appears to be stalling again. We’d like to see the Russell break back above 818 on the next move up. Over the next few weeks we want to see it hold the 50 and 200 day moving averages. A break below could give us early clues that the move down from April is under way again. If it breaks the next stop for the S&P 500 is probably 1200. But hey, if we get to 1200 SPX the good news will be more QE.

Tags: qe3, rut, spx

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Indecision Continues

Market Tops Give You Plenty of Time

15 Most Bearish Stocks on Twitter

IWM Needs to Consolidate

QQQ and IWM vs. TLT

Rotation to Big Caps?

Russell 2000 Outperforming

Russell 2000 Not Confirming Uptrend

Twitter Support and Resistance
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