Welcome to the Weekly S&P500$S&P 500(.SPX)$ #ChartStorm— a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web and post on Twitter$Twitter(TWTR)$ .
These charts focus on the S&P500 (US equities); and the various forces and factors that influence the outlook - with the aim of bringing insight and perspective.
Hope you enjoy!
1. S&P 500 Battle Lines
Former support, now resistance.
Given previous chopping and twists and turns around this level, I would say it may take a couple of attempts to actually breakout — but if it can make a clean clear break above 3900 it will make bears very uncomfortable...
2. When They’re Up They’re Up
Very interesting chart by Nomura, seeming to show that October had much more upside participation by individual stocks than usual... bullish repair work?
3. Small Trader put vs call Premium
In a bear market put options are more valuable than call options... especially when everyone wants 'em, and especially usually at the worst possible timing! (but good source of info for students of market psychology)
4. Short-Sighted Option Traders
Interesting follow-on, this one gives a glimpse at the timeframes in operation at the moment... heavier trading in extremely short-dated options. A sign of crash risk concern? or bearish greed? (or perhaps even just less confidence in the view either way, so no appetite to eat the time decay involved with holding longer-dated options)
5.Bear Market Trading
Market just clocked-up the most down days in 20yrs — similar to the dot-com burst bear, and 1970’s inflation bears. One thought it prompts is a caution to those begging for a Fed pivot -- this is not a March 2020 crash situation where pivot = moon, this is a full blown recessionary/inflationary/overvaluationary bear market that’s just going to have to take time to run its course.
6.Bear Season
Seasonality works different in a bear market.
Interestingly, it seems like you do historically get a pre-Mid-Term rally during bear markets, only for disappointment to drift the market lower into year-end... probably fits the script this year given all the pre-election jawboning that’s been going on.
7. Foreign Flows
Interesting to see foreigners selling equities but buying bonds. Both have done miserably this year. As a guess I would say the equity line is an active decision, the red line is probably forced buying. It also speaks to the solid relative performance of US v global bonds (esp. in US$ terms!), and lack of appetite for EM bonds or anything in or close to Europe.
8. Valuations
Good news everyone — the 5 largest stocks of the S&P 500 have seen their valuations reset to a “Permanently High Plateau” (thanks to Irving Fisher for that borrowed-term coined in 1929). On a slightly more serious note, we could argue that the “S&P495” is now looking cheap, but n.b. this is based on consensus EPS (which likely fall in recession).
9. Big Value in Small Caps?
The S&P 600 PE10 ratio (price vs trailing 10yr average earnings) is sitting about 10% below the average of the past 25 years, and is trading at a discount of -10% vs the S&P 100 (which compares to an long-term averagepremiumof +5%). So I would say yes there is value in small caps, but probably better described as small value in small caps (which is at least 40% better than where it was!).
10. Energy Cash
Energy companies are finding it too hard + too risky to invest in capex, so the best bet in their book is to just return those energy-shock cash-windfalls to investors.
Good for shareholders.
Maybe not so good for consumers — likely makes energy transition a bumpier road (still need a lot of oil and gas evenifyou do eventually get to carbon-zero).
https://chartstorm.substack.com/p/weekly-s-and-p500-chartstorm-30-october
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