Bespoke’s Crypto Report — 7/15/22

Bespoke’s Crypto Report contains numerous technical, momentum, and sentiment charts for bitcoin, ethereum, and other key cryptos.  Page 1 of the report includes our weekly commentary on the space and attempts to identify any new trends that are emerging.  The remaining pages include important overbought/oversold levels to watch, charts on historical drawdowns and rallies, seasonality trends, futures positioning data, Google search trend shifts, and more.  Our weekly Crypto Report is produced so that followers of the space can more easily stay on top of price action, technicals, seasonality, and sentiment.

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The Closer – Hawks Lose Nerve, Draghi Resigns (Or Maybe Not), PPI High (Sort Of) – 7/14/22

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Looking for deeper insight into markets? In tonight’s Closer sent to Bespoke Institutional clients, after starting out tonight’s note with an overview of the day’s Fedspeak (page 1), we provide some commentary as to the market implications of Italian politics (page 2) and the relationships between the US dollar, commodities, and Fed policy (page 3). We then dive into today’s release of PPI including a look at what these figures imply for core PCE (page 4). We finish with a look at which stocks have driven the past week’s declines (page 5).

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Bulls Back Above 25%

In spite of the S&P 500’s consistent declines in the past week as it failed to take out its late June highs, investor sentiment has turned around (relatively speaking) with this week’s reading from the AAII showing 26.9% of respondents reporting as bullish for the first time since early June.  The 7.5 percentage point increase in the percentage of bullish responses this week was a large week-over-week increase by historical standards, although there have been multiple even bigger larger weekly increases over the past few months.

With the increase in bullish sentiment, over a quarter of respondents reported as bullish for the first time in five weeks.  Such extended streaks with as depressed readings have been few and far between with the last five-week streak occurring all the way back in the summer of 1993.  Overall, there have now only been six streaks in which bullish sentiment remained below 25% for at least 5 consecutive weeks.  The longest of these was in December 1990 when it went on for 9 weeks in a row.  Albeit a small sample size, historically the end of these streaks have not been raging buy signals for the S&P 500 in the short term with inline performance versus all periods and somewhat weak returns one month out.  However, three, six, and twelve months later the S&P 500 has been higher almost every time with slightly stronger than normal performance (six months out from the March 1990 occurrence was the only decline).

The increase in bullish sentiment was met by bears falling back below 50% to 46.5%.  Mirroring bullish sentiment, that made for the lowest reading since the first week of June.

As a result of those moves, the bull-bear spread remains firmly in favor of bears. With the percentage of bearish responses outnumbering bulls by 19.6 points, for the 15th week in a row the bull-bear spread remains negative. That steak has grown to be the third largest on record behind a 22-week streak ending in late 1990 and a 34-week streak ending in October 2020.

Neutral sentiment has managed to avoid major shifts in sentiment in recent weeks and this week was no exception.  This reading fell modestly from 27.8% to 26.6%.  That is well within the range of the past couple of years’ readings and is only the lowest since three weeks ago. Click here to learn more about Bespoke’s premium stock market research service.