Good news and bad news for market pullback

I have bad news and good news about the recent pullback in the market.

The bad news is that big orders have been put in and institutions have really started shorting.

The good news is to put the spread bearish, but the downside is limited.

Institutional short strategies have generally been less aggressive this year than last, with the exception of banks. In the strategy design belongs to the relaxed state, the price drop is the best, if the price does not fall, there is no loss. So while there's very little upside right now, there's not a lot of downside, especially in the heavily weighted tech stocks.

Personally, I think we can give up small-cap stocks to some extent this year. Comparing $C3.ai, Inc.(AI)$ to $Microsoft(MSFT)$ , the trend is clear, real AI stocks are more resistant when the market is generally short of cash. The market is voting with money.

From the point of view of the plate, the non-essential consumer goods $Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLY)$ correction range will be larger than the Internet communication service $Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLC)$ correction range.

The put spread of these two sectors is as follows:

• buy $XLC 20230505 57.0 PUT$

• sell $XLC 20230505 55.0 PUT$

and

• buy $XLY 20230915 150.0 PUT$

• sell $XLY 20230915 125.0 PUT$

We can further think about the fluctuation range of ETF components based on the option strike price of the above strategy. The XLC component is not going to go down much, and the XLY component is going to go down a lot.

The correction has been global, and so have A-shares, though it may be nearing its end. The result is that someone quickly took a put $KWEB 20230428 28.5 PUT$ and then rolled it:

$KWEB 20230428 27.5 PUT$

If this option is closed, it's almost a bottom.

The US stock market and the A-share market have all pulled back, and the European stock market cannot be avoided either:

• buy $FEZ 20230818 44.0 PUT$

• sell$FEZ 20230818 37.0 PUT$

However, the expiration date of this strategy is conservative, and I get the feeling that traders are not very confident about the downward trend in European stocks.

There is another market that is out of sync with the rest of the world, and that is Japan:

$EWJ 20230915 61.0 CALL$

As you can see, institutions bought quite a lot, $4.25 million total, 25,000 lots of call options. It is estimated that institutions are optimistic about the technical surface 250 weeks average break bar.

Back to the individual stocks. Recently, some institutions have been shorting Microsoft, and the bearish strategy is very cheap, to be exact, almost free:

• buy $MSFT 20230519 275.0 PUT$

• sell $MSFT 20230616 250.0 PUT$

The ratio spread is bearish, with a buy to sell ratio of 1:2. It's almost a bearish strategy with an exercise attitude. Are there any pure bears left these days?

META financial reports are mostly based on straddle strategies. This order is a more typical financial strategy order, single bet side. I personally think META will pull back around 5%, no no more than 20%.

$META 20230616 155.0 PUT$

Google's interesting option move is the 113 strike call $GOOG 20230526 113.0 CALL$