Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Buy The All Time Lie

Yesterday's S&P ETF (SPY) volume (58.1 million) was the second lowest in the past 18 months (full days of trading). 
The lowest volume day of the past 18 months (57.4 milion) was one year ago on May 22nd, 2015, at the all time high in the S&P (circled). The S&P has gone nowhere since November 2014 (blue line/arrow):


Skynet is taking full advantage of zero volume to levitate the overnight futures. Regardless, time is running out on this charade...



Where have we seen this before...



Meanwhile, defensive (recession) stocks which had been leading the market, are now getting monkey hammered. Cereal company General Mills was just downgraded to an unheard of "Sell" this morning by Goldman Sachs. Last week Campbell Soup got shellacked...




It's stampede time...