The latest round of data from the State Street Investor Confidence Index [SSICI] appeared to show global institutional investors "buying...

With the rather volatile action in global equities over the past few weeks, it's worth checking in on where market breadth is tracking. ...

Those that follow my personal account on Twitter will be familiar with my weekly S&P500 #ChartStorm in which I pick out 10 charts on the...

Most investors are fairly familiar with the concept of seasonality in the stockmarket, with aphorisms such as "sell in May" baked into...

I've talked about the CBOE implied correlation index a few times before, but it's very timely to revisit this indicator as the February...

A few weeks ago I wrote a report outlining the sentiment snapshot for markets, the theme was "melt up" as a number of sentiment...

Studying sentiment surveys can help not only in short-term stockmarket timing decisions, but also in understanding the broader mood of...

I had to think a bit before going with that title. The term "melt-up" is an increasingly overused word, and given this article features...

Another year another datapoint... Regular readers will be familiar with the first chart which shows the average daily returns for the...

The latest weekly sentiment/positioning survey on Twitter revealed a continuation of some very interesting trends and a new record in...

I spent a lot of time in the 2017 End of Year Special Edition looking back across 2017. I covered some of my best charts and...

Global equities can do little wrong lately, with falling volatility, improving earnings, and an almost straight-line upward march in the...

Globally equity volatility is low. For that matter, volatility (both implied and realized) is low across the major asset classes. But...

The "Santa Claus rally" refers to the tendency for the S&P500 to do well in December, and specifically the last part of December. We can...

For the second month in a row the State Street Investor Confidence Index came in below 100 (the index uses State Street's global...

Regular readers and followers on social media will be familiar with this chart, but what will probably be surprising is how this...

In this video we look at the conflicting views on the medium term vs short term outlook for Copper. Specifically, the video walks you...

The geopolitical backdrop in the Middle East is fluid to say the least, and this fluidity has helped the black fluid undertake what is...

In this video we look at the CBOE Implied Correlation Index and the general evolution of correlations for the S&P500 and what it means...

Funny things can happen when you mix human psychology with greed and constant stimulus. The seemingly straight-line march upward in the...