Sunday, November 9, 2014

Are we overbought ?

After every new all time highs, a natural question comes to mind, are we overbought ?

We need to look @ internals of the market to see where we are right now.

Here is the read on RSI in indices :

Nasdaq 64.90

S&P 500 67.04

Dow 69.43

Then we need to look @ sentiment, which is captured every week on Wednesday by AAII, please note that we closed @ new all time high in DOW & S&P 500 on Friday which is not reflected in these Wednesday numbers,

Bulls 54.6%

Bears 15.1%

I am sure everyone can see where we are in terms of bullishness....pretty high....

Another indicator which one can follow is Short interest ratio , currently it is @ the lowest level since December of 2013......

SO...all of the above is flashing warning sign for traders, they can flip to short selling or preferably Put buying to take advantage of "overbought condition"

Only hope is that we are @ the highest level in CMF reading , which currently @ .357 highest level since July 2014...means there is money flowing in into equities.

Another weak positive is that RUT & Nasdaq have gone sideways for last 6 trading days.....a basing period then we go higher?

All i can tell you that, be very selective in what you buy & when you buy.

Exposure needs to be looked @ based on your own comfort level.

TAPE is very tricky, it goes UP when nobody expects, and goes down when everyone is bullish.

Many stocks are basing for long time like GOOG, FB, PCLN and may be ripe for picking.

Good luck with your strategy.

BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.

Saleem

7 comments:

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

I expect that grinding kind of higher market into year end assuming no extraneous shocks. The sentiment readings are definitely the biggest red flags but, as you know, we can stay overly bullish on sentiment as long as the market moves slowly higher.

My portfolio has <1% cash and only six positions: GS FDX SPLK LUV ETN AAL, with GS and FDX ~23% and the rest between 11.5-14.5%. I may have overweighted the "cheap oil" stocks too late into their ramp, so I may trim some of them to raise cash for opportunities, although I'll be sticking with high relative strength into year end.

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

I like your highly focused portfolio of 6 stocks.

Saleem

Western Firebird said...

Bought small amount of twc @ 138.4

If Netflix can get away with such high valuations, then TWC deserves some extra valuation potential imo.

Western Firebird said...

Ah, what's significant is the merger between comcast and timewarner will not now happen. I didn't think it would happen before anyway...

Western Firebird said...

twx owns hbo not twc...

Bah, I'm just going to continue hoping for a dip.

I still don't see any good deals.

I'm gonna research stocktrader's picks though.

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

Sold LUV @ 38.81 to take profits after their analyst day today didn't mention anything surprisingly good.

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

Good move in booking profit.

Saleem