Losses on the SP-500 on Friday 11th saw all our measures of breadth-liquidity fall into contraction, warning of a highly vulnerable market subject to further liquidity tightness and raised volatility. To many of my staff that actively trade the SP-500, this is treated as a bona fide correction warning. If you are scratching your heads as to where to find this chart updated on a daily basis in our charts menu, we will only be launching it in the coming […]
The HiLo Breadth Indexes for SP-500
The HILO breadth index was developed by RecessionALERT for detecting short and medium-term SP-500 stock market peaks in advance. It deploys the following daily breadth data taken from the SP-500 index: New 13-week (quarterly) highs New 13-week (quarterly) lows New 52-week (annual) highs New 52-week (annual) lows The above data is then used to construct two daily components as follows: Net new 13-week highs% = (New 13-week highs LESS New 13-week lows)/issues traded*100 Net new 52-week highs% = (New 52-week […]
Yellen’s Labor Dashboard suggests tightening in 2016
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently used her “jobs data dashboard” to justify the Fed’s easy money policies and to argue there’s still considerable slack in the labor market five years after the recession’s end. Seven of the nine gauges on this dashboard have not recovered to levels reached before the last recession, reinforcing her belief that the economy will need “extraordinary support” from the Federal Reserve for “some time to come.” It appears the Federal Reserve has changed emphasis from […]
