Weak hands made beneficiaries of a strictly technical trade had better get their risk on, or else...
Trouble is this will mean either spreading love further than reasonably can be expected, or pressing bets on the dwindling handful of darlings underpinning the market's continued levitation. Whatever it takes to stop the NYSE Bullish Percent Index's relative strength (top panel) from falling below 30, however, will be needed if we are to assume there is life yet remaining in the strictly technical trade holding up the stock market. Experience since March '09 bottom has shown the market vulnerable whenever this measure is breached.
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