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Investor Fear at Historic Highs Bodes Well for Markets

Let's check the charts and data on the market dashboard.
By GUY ORTMANN
Jun 06, 2022 | 09:48 AM EDT

As we start a new trading week, what are the charts and data telling us?

The data remain mixed, but the market psychology numbers remain at historically high levels of fear while the charts, market breadth and valuation have managed to improve nicely over the past several sessions.

Thus, we believe that selective buying is appropriate, especially for those with medium to longer-time horizons.

Now let's take a closer look.

On the Charts

Source: Worden

All the major equity indexes closed lower Friday with negative internals on lighter volume. While most closed near ether intraday lows, no violations of support were registered.

However, the S&P 500 did close below its near-term uptrend line, shifting its trend to neutral from bullish. The rest of the charts are neutral as well except for the Nasdaq 100 (see above), which is near-term bullish, in our opinion.

The sessions weakness had no impact on the cumulative advance/decline lines for the All Exchange, NYSE and Nasdaq that remain positive.

Stochastic levels continue to be overbought but no bearish crossovers have been triggered thus far.

The Data

The McClellan 1-Day Overbought/Oversold oscillators remain overbought with the NYSE very overbought (All Exchange: +70.83 NYSE: +118.66 Nasdaq: +68.81).

The percentage of S&P 500 issues trading above their 50-day moving averages (contrarian indicator) dropped to 35%, staying neutral.

The Open Insider Buy/Sell Ratio declined to 52.7 from 70.7, but also stayed neutral.

However, the detrended Rydex Ratio (contrarian indicator) remains very bullish at -4.16 as the ETF traders are extremely leveraged short at a level seen only once in the past decade at the beginning of 2019. From that point the market rallied until March of 2020 when Covid arrived on the scene. As such, the Rydex/Insider dynamic remains very encouraging.

Last week's AAII Bear/Bull Ratio (contrarian indicator) remained very bullish, rising to 2.18 from 1.97.

The Investors Intelligence Bear/Bull Ratio (contrary indicator) also remained on a very bullish signal and near a decade peak of fear at 40.8/228.28. Only twice in the past decade has bearish sentiment been this extreme, both of which were coincident with market bottoms.

In our view, the sentiment numbers are quite encouraging.

S&P 500 Valuation and Treasury Yields

The forward 12-month consensus earnings estimate from Bloomberg for the S&P 500 slipped to $235.98 per share. As such, the S&P's forward P/E multiple is 17.4x with the "rule of 20" finding ballpark fair value at 17.0x.

The S&P's forward earnings yield is 5.74%.

The 10-Year Treasury yield closed higher at 2.96% and above resistance. We view new support as 2.89% and resistance at 3.0%.

Our Near-Term Outlook

The improvement over the past several sessions in market breadth, index chart trends, compression of valuation and extreme levels of fear suggest to us that selective buying is appropriate.

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At the time of publication, Ortmann had no positions in any securities mentioned.

TAGS: Indexes | Markets | Technical Analysis | Treasury Bonds | U.S. Equity

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