The S&P 500 hasn’t declined more than 1 percent during a single trading day since Feb. 23, a 30-day stretch that is the longest of the bull market that began last March, according to the Bespoke Investment Group, one of the top trend-finding firms at work on Wall Street today.
“Guys are just chasing the market at this point,” said Tim Seymour, founder of EmergingMoney.com and a hedge fund manager. “Mutual fund managers are lucky if they’ve even caught a third of this rally from last March.”
Seymour, also a ‘Fast Money’ trader, believes that’s why there are always plenty of buyers to swoop in during the day on any pullback. While he’s still constructive on the market long-term, he warns that this streak speaks to a “dangerous overshoot at some point.”
One barometer of future movements for the overall market started to breakdown this week. The iShares Dow Jones Transport ETF is a widely followed leading indicator of the overall market because it encompasses companies such as FedEx and railroad CSX, which are the first to see changes in economic activity. The transports have separated from the market this week, down almost 1 percent as the Dow Jones Industrial Averagecontinues to creep higher.
The 30-day market streak “says a lot about the strength of the bull market from a longer-term perspective,” wrote the Bespoke analysts in a report. But “no one should be caught off guard by a few days worth of losses for the markets at this point.”
One interesting factoid about this nearly month long stretch: the S&P 500 is only up 7.4 percent over that period. It certainly has turned into a slow moving “Blob” bull market.
The tagline for the 1958 movie classic ‘The Blob’ was “Beware of the Blob, it creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor,” according to IMDB.com.
With reporting by Jennifer Dwork.
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