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
Is diversification a thing of the past? The sp500 has significantly beaten money managers who diversify investments globally in 13 of the last 15 years
The only 2 years where diversification worked over this period were 2012 and 2023. Such a streak has never happened before. During the 15-year timeframe, the largest outperformance by the S&P 500 occurred in 2015, by nearly 30%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500's return has exceeded global investment assets by 15% year-to-date. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, Bloomberg
The best performing stocks in the SP500 this year...
Source: Charlie Bilello
As per The Kobeisi Letter >>> The S&P 500 is now up 34% in under 8 MONTHS
Since the October 2023 low, the S&P 500 has added 1,370 points or $11.5 TRILLION in market cap. In other words, the S&P 500 has added ~$1.4 trillion in market cap PER MONTH for the last 8 months in a row. This means that the S&P 500's return since October 2023 is now 3 times the average annual return. Nvidia stock alone, $NVDA, has added $2.2 trillion in market cap over this time period. That's ~20% of the S&P 500's market cap gains coming from just one stock...
Mag7 stocks have added $2.3 trillion in market cap in Q2 so far... while the 493 other stocks in the S&P 500 have lost $720 billion...
Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg
The market cap-weighted SP500 is outperforming equal weight index by over 10% this year, following 12% outperformance in 2023
Since 1971, we've never seen consecutive years with >10% outperformance. Source: Charlie Bilello
Almost 23 years ago, Standard & Poor's selected Nvidia to replace the departing Enron in the S&P 500 stock index...
Source: Michel A.Arouet
Momentum Trading is having the most success in history, even surpassing the Dot Com Bubble
Source: Barchart, Bloomberg
