STICHWORTE: • • • •von

“The bull market is running out of brea(d)th”

Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass sich die Entwicklung an den Börsen immer mehr auf die USA konzentriert und dort auf immer weniger Werte. Ein klares Warnsignal für die weitere Entwicklung an den Börsen. FT Alphaville greift das auf:

  • “To make the case that the current bull market is not yet out of steam, many investors point to the cumulative advance/decline (A/D) line for the S&P 500. This indicator measures the number of stocks rising or falling on a daily basis. If it trends negative, that means more stocks are declining than rising. The reverse is true if it’s positive.” – bto: Das ist ein bekannter Indikator, der breit verfolgt wird.
  • “In a rising market, breadth, as measured by the cumulative A/D line, should be rising as well. If it’s not, it serves as a red flag that leadership in the rally is thin. We’ve all heard the phrase ‘there’s strength in numbers,’ and it’s also applicable to the market. In a broad-based rally, you can afford to have a few stocks falter because other stocks are there to pick up the load. In a narrow rally, though, if you lose a few stocks, you won’t have much left.” – bto: Das heißt, es geht nicht nur um den Index, sondern auch um die Breite der Entwicklung. Und das ist richtig.
  • “The cumulative A/D line of the S&P 500 six months before and after a peak in late-January is not only positive, but has topped new highs. That’s in contrast to in 1999-2000, before the dot-com bubble burst, when the cumulative A/D line had turned negative. Back then, ‚it was tech and only tech‘, whereas this time around it’s ‚tech and a lot of other companies‘. – bto: Das würde ja vordergründig sagen, dass es noch weiter aufwärtsgehen kann.
  • “(…) other indicators of market breadth are saying something quite different. The percentage of stocks making new highs and the percentage of stocks above their 200-day moving averages have fallen. More worryingly, the S&P 500’s narrowness has become “extreme” in its most recent leg higher. (…) the S&P 500 would not be busting through its recent record highs without Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Here’s his chart tracking the normalised performance of the S&P 500 versus a version excluding the three stocks:” – bto: Das zeigt, dass man, wenn man diese drei Aktien nicht im Portfolio hat, auch in den USA unter dem Jahresanfang liegt.
  • “A glance at the FAAMG stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google) confirms this. Their combined market capitalisation of $4.1trn is just about equal to the combined market capitalisation of the 283 smallest S&P 500 members (…)”
  • “So long as investors piled into the FAAMGs and other technology stocks, market-watchers could sideline the risks brought on by this dominance. Not anymore. Inflows to the sector more broadly have slowed in recent months:” – bto: Angesichts der Entwicklung sollte das nicht überraschen!

FT Alphaville: “How long the bull market can sustain itself on such a small and shrinking base remains to be seen. Morgan Stanley predicts growth to slow later this year and next. In their eyes, “this is a more dangerous set up than most recognise.” – bto: Und dann wird es spannend, nicht nur an den Börsen.

→ ftalphaville.ft.com: “The bull market is running out of brea(d)th”, 29. August 2018