Major Trend Index
MTI Holding Within Neutral Zone
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MTI: Traders Have Warmed Up To The Rally
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MTI: Attitudinal Down Near Its 2019 Extreme
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MTI: Improving Liquidity Offsetting Earnings Weakness
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Breadth Improves Among NYSE-Traded Issues
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MTI Upgraded To Neutral
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Broad Technical Improvement; Ratio Boosted To Neutral
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Sentiment & Valuation Work Deteriorate With The Advance
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MTI: Momentum Factors Continue To Gain Strength
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Momentum Reverses Losses Of Prior Week
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Negligible S&P 500 Loss Disguises Shaky Internal Action
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MTI Stable, But Still Negative
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MTI: Momentum And Economic Work Offset Negatives
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MTI: Internal Market Rotation Not Evidence Of Broadening Strength
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MTI: Broad Rally Lifted Momentum Inputs
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MTI: Cyclical Market Risks Remain High
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MTI Stable, But Still Negative
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MTI: Despite NYSE Daily A/D High, Breadth Is Ailing
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MTI: Same Old Song
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MTI: Attitudinal Improved But Still Net Negative
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MTI: Momentum Smacked Again
The hits to the Momentum category were broad-based; the Advance/Decline work continues to disguise a very dangerous, underlying bifurcation of the market.
MTI Stable, But Still Negative
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MTI: Momentum Takes A Hit
The Momentum category lost ground in the latest calculation, with more than three-quarters of the loss reflecting a flip in one of our “long-term” momentum sub-models from 50% bullish in the prior week, to maximum bearish at Friday’s close.
MTI: Economic Factors Lifted By Monetary Measures
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Growth in M1 and M2 money supply has picked up, offsetting the bearish readings for Adjusted Reserves and the Fed balance sheet. Momentum category also strengthened.
MTI: Momentum Improved Despite Modest Market Losses
The Momentum category improved despite last week’s modest market losses, with some of the longer-term trend work improving. Daily and weekly 52-week lows for the NASDAQ remain elevated, reflecting the increasing concentration of strength in Technology stocks.
MTI: Upside Surprises/Depressed Expectations
We think that the economic surprises, as well as the yield uptick, reflect an unwind of extremely one-sided positioning rather than an indication of a second-half economic rebound.
MTI: Attitudinal Measures Erode On Investor Enthusiasm
The Momentum category continues to grind higher, but this push has predictably stirred up investor enthusiasm (as measured this week by an identical decline in our Attitudinal composite). At the same time, longer-term measures like CEO Confidence, Small Business Optimism, and Consumer Confidence have all weakened in the latest reports, suggesting a rollover in animal spirits could be underway.
MTI Still Negative; Stay Defensive
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MTI: NOPE Index Boosts Economic Category
The bounce in the Economic category interrupted its last few months’ steady grind lower; the increase was led mostly by an upgrade to the NOPE Index (ISM New Orders Minus Price Index), which moved from high neutral to moderately bullish. The action of individual components is hardly reassuring, however.
MTI: Economic Work Continues To Erode
The Economic work continues to erode, and it would now be deeply negative if not for the conventional scoring of our leading inflation measures, in which disinflation is viewed as a good thing. But if our suspicions that this economic cycle will end in a deflationary bust are correct, the conventional interpretation will be wrong.
MTI: Consumer Confidence Worrisome “Inversion”
A less-publicized, but still worrisome “inversion” occurring beyond the Treasury market is that of Consumer Confidence, in which the Conference Board’s Present Situation Index has soared almost 70 points above the Expectations Index. This gap always becomes extreme in the late stages of an economic expansion, and today’s reading surpasses those recorded at all business cycle peaks other than February 2001.
MTI: Economic Measures Continue To Lose Ground
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We view market and economic risks as high, but the Momentum picture has been convincing enough to prevent us from adopting a maximally defensive posture.
MTI Back Into Negative Territory
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MTI Back In Negative Territory
We don’t like “news-driven” market moves, and it’s pretty obvious that May’s decline was due in large part to the ramp-up in the trade war. That said, trends in the economy and earnings were already weakening prior to the latest escalation.
MTI: Economic/Momentum Continue To Lose Steam
Aside from the decidedly bearish action in the Treasury yield curve, U.S. and global money supply growth rates remain sluggish; both the Fed balance sheet and the Adjusted Monetary Base are still in outright decline.
MTI: Economic Measures Remain Weak
Weakness in several coincident economic measures suggest that global-policy tightening over the last 18 months is having an impact. The current Fed policy stance doesn’t lead us to believe much improvement is likely in the near term.
MTI: Momentum Pulls Back
The Momentum work has been the largest week-to-week MTI swing factor for many months, and that was the case again last week. The Attitudinal category improved, reflecting increasing investor anxiety.
MTI: Edging Higher Within Neutral Band
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MTI: Stock Leadership Similar To Late 1990s’
We are not in the “melt-up” camp but we’re impressed by the close similarities in leadership with the greatest late-cycle melt-up of all time, which took place from late 1998 through March 2000.
Price Action Strong Despite Earnings/Liquidity Trends
Although we are not in the “melt-up” camp, we’d concede that stock market leadership is exactly what we’d expect if we were in that camp: Domestic over Foreign, Large over Small, and Growth over Value. Price action continues to remind us of the powerful rebound off the fall 1998 lows. Current earnings and liquidity trends, however, are not nearly as supportive as they were during that historic market move.