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1 Jul 2024

That was another new all-time high quarterly close for both the S&P500 and Nasdaq100

That's now 3 in a row. Source: J.C. Parets @allstarcharts

24 Jun 2024

The Nasdaq 100 and Bitcoin have moved in tandem for the past 4+ years.

With the recent Tech rally, the Nasdaq is showing its largest divergence versus Bitcoin during this time frame. Will we see bitcoin catch up or Tech catch down? Source: David Marlin

21 Jun 2024

Short interest on the $SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF and $QQQ Powershares Nasdaq 100 ETF as a % of shares outstanding is at record low levels

Source: JP Morgan

20 Jun 2024

As highlighted by Sentiment Trader, market breadth for Nasdaq 100 QQQ is indeed a growing concern

The Nasdaq 100 continues to notch record high after record high. Many of its stocks are not only lagging, but they're falling to monthly, quarterly, or even yearly lows and below their 10-, 50-, and 200-day moving averages. This is not normal. In fact, it's never happened before to this degree. There is a possibility that the average stock will catch up to the index, that is not how things usually pan out. Almost never, in fact. Risk is high in that index.

4 Apr 2024

Amazing chart by Quartr.

It's quite astonishing: despite the NASDAQ 100's special mid-2023 rebalancing, the combined weight of $MSFT, $AAPL, $NVIDIA, $AMZN, $GOOGL, and $META still constitutes a substantial 38% of the index. Without this rare adjustment, the second of its kind in the last 25 years, these companies would currently represent 58% of the index.

3 Apr 2024

Maybe we have hit the pain threshold...

i,e the hashtag#nasdaq green line) can not move higher as the number of rate cuts expected for this year (red line) keeps decreasing... Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

27 Mar 2024

BREAKING: The Nasdaq Composite index is officially up 30% from its October 2023 low.

That's a 30% gain in 5 months or an average of 6% per month since October. To put this in perspective, the median ANNUAL return for the S&P 500 is 10%. This means that the Nasdaq has TRIPLED the median sp500 return in just 5 months. The top 10% of stocks in the S&P 500 also now reflect 75% of the index. Tech stocks have never been more powerful. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

22 Mar 2024

Here are the Equally-weighted Nasdaq100 and S&P500.

If these two are above their former cycle highs, it's hard to be too bearish on this market. Source: J-C Parets

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