Retail investors have bought over $5 billion of leveraged equity ETFs in the last 12 months, the most since 2022.
This marks a $3 billion increase on a 1-month rolling sum basis in just a few months. Since the October 2023 low, retail investors have been piling into leveraged ETFs. However, a similar pattern was seen in 2021 and early 2022 after which retail experienced significant losses. The average retail investor portfolio drawdown from the 2022 peak was 35% and took 1.5 years to recover. Retail risk appetite is near record highs. Source: FT, The Kobeissi Letter
Who needs Mag 7 if one can buy utilities stocks?
Source: Michel A.Arouet
8 of the 10 biggest winning stocks in 2020 have lost value since the end of that year including Tesla $TSLA
Source: Barchart, FT
Believe it or not, utilities $XLU is now the best performing SP500 ETFsince the start of the year (+13.4%).
Technology $XLV is in the second half of the ranking (+5.4%). So what's going on? Utilities has been on a run as we are reaching the 2nd derivative of the AI trade. Investment bankers are pushing new AI baskets and many of them include some Utilities stocks. Source: Mike Zaccardi
Sell in May and go away? Not in election years…
History shows that the mid-May to mid-June seasonal period is very strong during election years. Source: David Marlin, Goldman Sachs
The real price of the S&P500 has never exceeded the 1929 highs...
...If adjusted for M2 money supply growth 💸 Source. Nicolas Cheron
Don't fight the Mag 7?
The ratio of the Mag 7 vs the S&P 493 (S&P 500 ex Mag 7) has just hit another ATH. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ
Wall Street is turning less negative on China stocks
Source: Daily Compounding
