Saturday, August 18, 2012

Come Out Wherever You Are: Investors Still in Hiding



From cnbc: After a summer of low volume and high gains, the stock market soon will face the challenge of whether it can sustain a rally once the crowd comes back from vacation.  A market that rallies without a lot of participation is generally standing on shifting ground, at least according to Dow Theory, which uses volume confirmation as a key tenet in testing strength.

With September historically a month where trading activity rises, and when volatility increases, the stock market faces a critical test.

"Our macro technical work displays an ominous foreboding which strongly suggests that the powerful summer run in rates, crude and global equities will soon be at end," Richard Ross, global technical strategist at Auerbach Grayson in New York, said in a note to clients.  "With both volume and volatility absent from the advance, and a myriad of major markets and macro proxies steaming into stiff resistance during a period of vulnerable seasonality, conditions are ripe for a rapid risk reversion to the mean," he added….

Read all about it at http://www.cnbc.com/id/48703726

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