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“This market received’t backside till we see capitulation.”
You’ll see lots of that within the coming days and weeks. I strongly agree and disagree with components of that sentiment.
Blackrock reported earnings this morning. Larry Fink mentioned, “We’ve got not seen any capitulation with any shoppers.” He’s not going to. Should you’re in search of long-term traders to throw within the towel, you haven’t been paying consideration.
Within the 5 days main as much as (and together with) the large rally on Thursday, $10 billion got here into VOO, 4x the traditional price. One other $19 billion rushed into SPY.
Eric Balchunas tweeted this astute statement on Thursday, when the S&P 500 had its tenth greatest day ever:
Market timing won’t ever die bc people however man it took one on the chin at present. I’ve to think about much more ppl simply joined Vanguard's 'not altering course no matter what i see or hear' camp. COVID rally did identical thing- which may very well be why the inflows appear to get stronger with every new disaster.
Simply hold shopping for isn’t simply the identify of Nick’s e book; it’s turn out to be the mantra for hundreds of thousands of traders. In america, shopping for each dip has been rewarded for the final fifty years. It can take a very long time for that muscle reminiscence to fade. Don’t maintain your breath.
The Vanguardians of the Galaxy, as Balchunas calls them, won’t be deterred. They’ll simply hold shopping for, come hell or excessive water.
However there’s one other group of dip patrons that does have to capitulate earlier than we see a sturdy backside. It’s the degens. They plowed $7 billion into levered lengthy ETFs within the 5 days main as much as the tariff-pause. They should chill.
For seven straight weeks they’ve plowed cash into ETFs that go up twice as a lot or extra as their underlying holdings. How for much longer will they proceed to the touch a burning range?

On the flip facet, speculators are additionally plowing cash into inverse ETFs, so the chart above solely tells half the story.
This subsequent one from Warren Pies reveals that fifty% of all speculative ETF quantity (inverse and levered lengthy) has been in inverse ETFs. This chart is every week previous, so I assume we’re manner larger now. Warren says that readings of 60% have an ideal one-year ahead observe report. I’m guessing we’re already there.

Know who’s not capitulating, ever? Dividend traders. Yeah, I get that they may not be essentially the most tax-efficient solution to generate revenue, however from a behavioral standpoint, they’re nice. Assuming the world doesn’t finish, and the dividends hold hitting your account, traders targeted on this technique usually tend to keep the course when the quantity goes to 11. We spoke about that, and the entire craziness of the previous week, on the Compound & Mates with the nice Jenny Harrington.