Has The Bubble Already Popped?

zerohedge2021-04-23

Has the bubble already popped and we haven’t realized it yet? I recognize it could be considered a ludicrous question to even ask considering indices just made new all time highs last Friday and we’re...

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Andrewpkyap
2021-04-23
Andrewpkyap
Somebody's got to be right when so many are making predictions and that would make it all down to luck.
HoSayBo
2021-04-23
HoSayBo
Stay cautious, invest safe. To the moon
ZEROHERO
2021-04-23
ZEROHERO
Popping gradually all along
Starbucks
2021-04-23
Starbucks
Yes! I have the same Qn! [Thinking] [Thinking] Still need to be cautious to be in the safe side!

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Risk assets made new all time highs, be it $SPX, crypto, you name it.\nYet while $NDX made a new all time high again last week along with Bitcoin and $DJIA and $SPX we can observe changes. Take a look at cumulative advance decline $NAAD. It peaked in February and last week’s highs show a very pronounced relative weakness in cumulative advance/decline:\nThat’s the kind of reading that got markets in trouble back in 2020.\nNew highs can be deceiving, especially if they occur in context of a trend break, and $NDX broke its March 2020 uptrend in February and these most recent highs constituted a back test of that broken trend line.\nPeople ignore the trend breaks, new highs are deemed bullish when they may not be as suggested by internals.\nSo you know this is not just a theorem look back toward 2018 when $NDX did exactly the same thing:\nBasically the same script. 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Call buying by retail has already calmed down, many stocks have stopped performing and the easy chase appears to be over and there is a lot of pain in these highly speculative momentum stocks.\nEven small caps, themselves having sported an unprecedented performance since the March lows, have stopped making new highs:\nYou know it’s bad when even a log chart looks like a linear chart.\nSmall caps too put in new highs on a negative divergence and have significantly lagged in the past 2 months. The underlying volatility index, $RVX, also showing ( as $VIX) a budding bullish volatility structure.\nSmall caps peaked in March:\nThat final high being vertical  and aggressive similar to what we saw in $NDX in 2000:\n\nBubbles popping are only known in hindsight, indeed one could’ve been entirely oblivious to a bubble bursting in 2000 looking at $SPX as the index chopped in range for months following the March bubble popping:\n\nIt just took that long for that realization to filter through the  broader stock market and the economy.\nBottomline here: Last week’s highs in markets and crypto may have been deceiving. Whether we get new highs still or not I submit there is a lot of damage taking place in this hyper valued market that is masked by the new highs headlines of last week. And the cumulative picture leaves the door open for the possibility that the bubble has already popped, except none of us realize it yet for recent new highs are masking it all.\nNow I freely acknowledge all this could end up being wrong and the ghost of 2013 may just continue ticking here, especially as nothing big has broken yet in the broader market.\nBut I also submit that we will only know for certain in hindsight, but if these data points send a viable signal then the implications could be profound. 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I recognize it could be considered a l","content":"<p>Has the bubble already popped and we haven’t realized it yet? I recognize it could be considered a ludicrous question to even ask considering indices just made new all time highs last Friday and we’re barely down 2% on $SPX.</p>\n<p>And frankly I don’t know the answer myself here, but in context of the&nbsp;<b>peak liquidity question</b>&nbsp;I am submitting some data points that suggest that the speculative part of the bubble may have already popped back in February/March.</p>\n<p>Consider the following:</p>\n<p>What happened in February? Well, the same thing that happened in March and April. Risk assets made new all time highs, be it $SPX, crypto, you name it.</p>\n<p>Yet while $NDX made a new all time high again last week along with Bitcoin and $DJIA and $SPX we can observe changes. Take a look at cumulative advance decline $NAAD. It peaked in February and last week’s highs show a very pronounced relative weakness in cumulative advance/decline:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d6d8c2fcabbe15b2d901a03d458828bf\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"429\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">That’s the kind of reading that got markets in trouble back in 2020.</p>\n<p>New highs can be deceiving, especially if they occur in context of a trend break, and $NDX broke its March 2020 uptrend in February and these most recent highs constituted a back test of that broken trend line.</p>\n<p><b>People ignore the trend breaks, new highs are deemed bullish when they may not be as suggested by internals.</b></p>\n<p>So you know this is not just a theorem look back toward 2018 when $NDX did exactly the same thing:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2737025657d10fa8ed7af6f8261d3649\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"290\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Basically the same script. Trend break, a new rally to new highs that back tested the broken trend line and then lights out.</p>\n<p>We can observe something very similar with Bitcoin. It too made a high on February 21 and then recently broke its trend only to make new highs on a negative divergence again raising the question of the Hedge Myth:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a9bec4a82ab2b422cce5688b093478fd\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"313\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Bitcoin is now below the February highs.</p>\n<p>Indeed, using the February peak as a benchmark the performance picture in many asset classes is not commensurate with the new highs picture seen last week:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc08eadaa3c267d60432a04694dabff3\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"242\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Speculative vehicles such as SPAC have been decimated:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/edd19635d078bebedbf4ebfadba43c39\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"268\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">The rout has not gone unnoticed:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6e81b456993f66fcbd3652b8352164a5\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"97\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">A lot of things peaked in February and one wonders if the February 19/21 time frame was perhaps the time of peak hubris:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b3695446c33646d25e6bf25bd6eda22\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"104\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Celebrated hedge fund manager Cathie Wood has seen her main ETF peak in February as well:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/876f44eaf39c3db47a22c48f9a8c3570\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"319\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">These February highs have also come on a pronounced negative RSI divergences with a pronounced trend break in February as well. Unlike $NDX there have not been new highs nor a back test of the trend line. Just a broken chart. And now the ETF is down for the year.</p>\n<p>On the way up everyone looks like a genius, but what really is the key driver of success in an environment where everything goes up? Is it superior stock picking or is it just riding the general liquidity wave a lot of which just ends up in speculative high risk investment vehicles seeking superior returns?</p>\n<p>I ask as I see ARKK, as an example, just track the liquidity train:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/087b65b80759139397ca8c8c25d37ea4\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"319\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">No printing, no performance. Printing and off to the races we go.</p>\n<p>If one uses these vehicles as a proxy one could make the case that the speculative bubble has already popped despite still seeing pockets of relentless chasing in select vehicles (think Dogecoin). Call buying by retail has already calmed down, many stocks have stopped performing and the easy chase appears to be over and there is a lot of pain in these highly speculative momentum stocks.</p>\n<p>Even small caps, themselves having sported an unprecedented performance since the March lows, have stopped making new highs:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d1351715d17cb5ba63131e11d1314996\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"407\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">You know it’s bad when even a log chart looks like a linear chart.</p>\n<p>Small caps too put in new highs on a negative divergence and have significantly lagged in the past 2 months. The underlying volatility index, $RVX, also showing (<b>&nbsp;as $VIX</b>) a budding bullish volatility structure.</p>\n<p>Small caps peaked in March:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/17fc10423aa1821c64d959e82e85f258\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"308\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">That final high being vertical &nbsp;and aggressive similar to what we saw in $NDX in 2000:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/633eeb27942dcde2de9772ddb5fca139\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"242\"></p>\n<p>Bubbles popping are only known in hindsight, indeed one could’ve been entirely oblivious to a bubble bursting in 2000 looking at $SPX as the index chopped in range for months following the March bubble popping:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/90bfb16f53482407afafa15005283221\" tg-width=\"500\" tg-height=\"220\"></p>\n<p>It just took that long for that realization to filter through the &nbsp;broader stock market and the economy.</p>\n<p>Bottomline here: Last week’s highs in markets and crypto may have been deceiving. Whether we get new highs still or not I submit there is a lot of damage taking place in this hyper valued market that is masked by the new highs headlines of last week. And the cumulative picture leaves the door open for the possibility that the bubble has already popped, except none of us realize it yet for recent new highs are masking it all.</p>\n<p>Now I freely acknowledge all this could end up being wrong and the&nbsp;<b>ghost of 2013</b>&nbsp;may just continue ticking here, especially as nothing big has broken yet in the broader market.</p>\n<p>But I also submit that we will only know for certain in hindsight, but if these data points send a viable signal then the implications could be profound. 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I recognize it could be considered a ludicrous question to even ask considering indices just made new all time highs last Friday and we’re...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/has-bubble-already-popped\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","SPY":"标普500ETF",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯"},"source_url":"https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/has-bubble-already-popped","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1198530619","content_text":"Has the bubble already popped and we haven’t realized it yet? I recognize it could be considered a ludicrous question to even ask considering indices just made new all time highs last Friday and we’re barely down 2% on $SPX.\nAnd frankly I don’t know the answer myself here, but in context of the peak liquidity question I am submitting some data points that suggest that the speculative part of the bubble may have already popped back in February/March.\nConsider the following:\nWhat happened in February? Well, the same thing that happened in March and April. Risk assets made new all time highs, be it $SPX, crypto, you name it.\nYet while $NDX made a new all time high again last week along with Bitcoin and $DJIA and $SPX we can observe changes. Take a look at cumulative advance decline $NAAD. It peaked in February and last week’s highs show a very pronounced relative weakness in cumulative advance/decline:\nThat’s the kind of reading that got markets in trouble back in 2020.\nNew highs can be deceiving, especially if they occur in context of a trend break, and $NDX broke its March 2020 uptrend in February and these most recent highs constituted a back test of that broken trend line.\nPeople ignore the trend breaks, new highs are deemed bullish when they may not be as suggested by internals.\nSo you know this is not just a theorem look back toward 2018 when $NDX did exactly the same thing:\nBasically the same script. Trend break, a new rally to new highs that back tested the broken trend line and then lights out.\nWe can observe something very similar with Bitcoin. It too made a high on February 21 and then recently broke its trend only to make new highs on a negative divergence again raising the question of the Hedge Myth:\nBitcoin is now below the February highs.\nIndeed, using the February peak as a benchmark the performance picture in many asset classes is not commensurate with the new highs picture seen last week:\nSpeculative vehicles such as SPAC have been decimated:\nThe rout has not gone unnoticed:\nA lot of things peaked in February and one wonders if the February 19/21 time frame was perhaps the time of peak hubris:\nCelebrated hedge fund manager Cathie Wood has seen her main ETF peak in February as well:\nThese February highs have also come on a pronounced negative RSI divergences with a pronounced trend break in February as well. Unlike $NDX there have not been new highs nor a back test of the trend line. Just a broken chart. And now the ETF is down for the year.\nOn the way up everyone looks like a genius, but what really is the key driver of success in an environment where everything goes up? Is it superior stock picking or is it just riding the general liquidity wave a lot of which just ends up in speculative high risk investment vehicles seeking superior returns?\nI ask as I see ARKK, as an example, just track the liquidity train:\nNo printing, no performance. Printing and off to the races we go.\nIf one uses these vehicles as a proxy one could make the case that the speculative bubble has already popped despite still seeing pockets of relentless chasing in select vehicles (think Dogecoin). Call buying by retail has already calmed down, many stocks have stopped performing and the easy chase appears to be over and there is a lot of pain in these highly speculative momentum stocks.\nEven small caps, themselves having sported an unprecedented performance since the March lows, have stopped making new highs:\nYou know it’s bad when even a log chart looks like a linear chart.\nSmall caps too put in new highs on a negative divergence and have significantly lagged in the past 2 months. The underlying volatility index, $RVX, also showing ( as $VIX) a budding bullish volatility structure.\nSmall caps peaked in March:\nThat final high being vertical  and aggressive similar to what we saw in $NDX in 2000:\n\nBubbles popping are only known in hindsight, indeed one could’ve been entirely oblivious to a bubble bursting in 2000 looking at $SPX as the index chopped in range for months following the March bubble popping:\n\nIt just took that long for that realization to filter through the  broader stock market and the economy.\nBottomline here: Last week’s highs in markets and crypto may have been deceiving. Whether we get new highs still or not I submit there is a lot of damage taking place in this hyper valued market that is masked by the new highs headlines of last week. And the cumulative picture leaves the door open for the possibility that the bubble has already popped, except none of us realize it yet for recent new highs are masking it all.\nNow I freely acknowledge all this could end up being wrong and the ghost of 2013 may just continue ticking here, especially as nothing big has broken yet in the broader market.\nBut I also submit that we will only know for certain in hindsight, but if these data points send a viable signal then the implications could be profound. At least nobody can say the warning signs weren’t there when the realization sinks in that the bubble may have already popped.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":372915204,"gmtCreate":1619167804908,"gmtModify":1704720678836,"author":{"id":"3577273775400833","authorId":"3577273775400833","name":"HoSayBo","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/75258d10fa6a75acaa29bb93b8732c93","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577273775400833","authorIdStr":"3577273775400833"},"htmlText":"Stay cautious, invest safe. To the moon","listText":"Stay cautious, invest safe. To the moon","text":"Stay cautious, invest safe. To the moon","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/372915204","repostId":1198530619,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":372028710,"gmtCreate":1619160509730,"gmtModify":1704720576766,"author":{"id":"3566532164444643","authorId":"3566532164444643","name":"ZEROHERO","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62813b6df1c4722e559d112fadd5486a","vip":2,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3566532164444643","authorIdStr":"3566532164444643"},"htmlText":"Popping gradually&nbsp;all along","listText":"Popping gradually&nbsp;all along","text":"Popping gradually all along","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/372028710","repostId":1198530619,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":372023014,"gmtCreate":1619160206438,"gmtModify":1704720572649,"author":{"id":"3573818563583937","authorId":"3573818563583937","name":"Starbucks","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/adf9c30b19f3cc477ca4f1198d2c8b81","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b073a07f77dbe6b3bec6b12311fde6bd","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3573818563583937","authorIdStr":"3573818563583937"},"htmlText":"Yes! 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