{"id":195261,"date":"2024-06-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/uncategorized\/stock-market-jenga\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:16:21","slug":"stock-market-jenga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.eu\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/stock-market-jenga\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Market Jenga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve discussed market divergences at length in recent weeks.&nbsp; From the observation that market performance has become <a href=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampusdev.wpengine.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/its-about-owning-the-correct-stocks\/\">dependent upon size<\/a>, to the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampusdev.wpengine.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/more-divergences\/\">advance-decline statistics no longer confirm<\/a> major indices recent highs, I have been trying to come up with a metaphor for the narrowing market leadership.&nbsp; It occurred to me this morning: investors are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jenga\">playing Jenga<\/a> with the stock market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who are unfamiliar with this popular game, a tower is erected from 54 rectangular wooden blocks stacked in threes to comprise 18 square layers.&nbsp; Players then take turns removing blocks and stacking them atop the tower.&nbsp; The tower becomes increasingly top-heavy and unstable as parts of its foundation are used to make it rise.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this at all sound familiar?&nbsp; Although money appears to be flowing into the stock market, a contrary <a href=\"https:\/\/blinks.bloomberg.com\/news\/stories\/SFDL9SGFA9Z4\">Bloomberg headline<\/a> caught my eye.&nbsp; Apparently SPY, the SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF, had its sixth consecutive daily outflow.&nbsp; On Tuesday (the prior trading day), $1.23 billion flowed out of SPY, bringing the six-day total to $26.8 billion.&nbsp; For perspective, that represents about 4.9% of the fund\u2019s assets.&nbsp; Some of that might be flowing into QQQ, the Invesco ETF linked to the Nasdaq 100 Index, but not enough.&nbsp; That fund has shown inflows on 6 of the past 7 days, but those totaled roughly $3.57 billion \u2013 hardly enough to make up SPY\u2019s outflows.&nbsp; It is entirely possible that investors have decided that rather than owning exposure to an index that is roughly 1\/3 weighted in mega cap tech they\u2019d rather own one that is about 44% weighted in those names.&nbsp; Or simply pile into those stocks directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sounds a bit like Jenga, no?\u00a0 Let\u2019s remove money from the 500-stock index to focus on one that has 100 stocks.\u00a0 Or, let\u2019s use that money to buy the stocks whose momentum continues to push them ever-higher, dragging market-capitalization weighted indices in their wake.\u00a0 We\u2019re narrowing the foundation to push the tower ever-higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder, let\u2019s take a fresh look at the cumulative NYSE and Nasdaq advance-decline lines vis-\u00e0-vis <span class=\"stock-ticker\" data-stock-ticker=\"SPX\">SPX<\/span> and <span class=\"stock-ticker\" data-stock-ticker=\"NDX\">NDX<\/span>.&nbsp; Since mid-May, neither has been keeping pace with the respective index highs, as they had done throughout the current leg of the bull market beginning at the start of November:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spx-white-and-ndx-yellow-since-november-1-2023-with-respective-cumulative-advance-decline-lines-below\"><strong><em>SPX (white) and NDX (yellow) Since November 1, 2023, with Respective Cumulative Advance\/Decline Lines Below<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"631\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampusdev.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7-1100x631.png\" alt=\"SPX (white) and NDX (yellow) Since November 1, 2023, with Respective Cumulative Advance\/Decline Lines Below\" class=\"wp-image-195263 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7-1100x631.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7-700x401.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7-1536x881.png 1536w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture2-7.png 1632w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/631;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past performance is not indicative of future results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same can be said about net new 52-week highs vs. lows.&nbsp; Because the data in the following graph uses daily, rather than cumulative data, it needs to be interpreted differently from the graph above.&nbsp; But the message is the same:&nbsp; since mid-May, we have begun to see more stocks trading at year-lows than highs even as the key indices soar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spx-blue-and-ndx-magenta-since-november-1-2023-with-daily-52-week-new-highs-new-lows-for-nyse-white-and-nasdaq-red\"><strong><em>SPX (blue) and NDX (magenta) Since November 1, 2023, with Daily 52-Week New Highs \u2013 New Lows for NYSE (white) and Nasdaq (red)<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"638\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampusdev.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12-1100x638.png\" alt=\"SPX (blue) and NDX (magenta) Since November 1, 2023, with Daily 52-Week New Highs \u2013 New Lows for NYSE (white) and Nasdaq (red)\" class=\"wp-image-195264 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12-1100x638.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12-700x406.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12-1536x891.png 1536w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/Picture1-12.png 1636w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" 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