Where is the Love? ~ The Risk Averse Alert

Friday, May 24, 2013

Where is the Love?

Here's something confirming all is not well in the garbage trade, likewise heightening risk prices soon could fall of their own weight, and rather profoundly at that...



Even prior to March '09 bottom the NASDAQ Composite index, as a general trend, was performing better than the S&P 500 (see bottom panel). However this has not been the case for well over a year now. NASDAQ's relative performance versus the S&P 500 has been decidedly fading.

When love at the bottom of the capital structure is increasing, so too should we expect NASDAQ's relative performance versus the S&P 500 to objectively display this, as well. Yet in the lead up to the Fed's infinite QE, hyperinflationary bailout policy, and only the more so subsequently, love at the bottom of the capital structure is seen narrowing. All manner of tricks gatekeepers have deployed to exploit a broken price discovery mechanism—a matter of circumstance exposed by persistently fading volume—now fail general conditions otherwise necessary to sustain the market's rising trend. NASDAQ's relative lag versus the S&P 500 reveals a market at heightened risk of coming undone.

In fact we might expect considerable selling pressure sometime in the not-too-distant future. The lead up to the market's August 2011 swoon saw love fade similarly, NASDAQ vs. the S&P 500, as the market pushed higher into its peak earlier that year. At present, however, we are seeing a much more pronounced fade as the overall market pushes still higher. The Jetson's dog, Astro, probably said it best: Rutro Relroy. The dogs who today salivate for a bull market their bark suggests will persist for as far as the eye can see evidently got some splanin' to do...






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