{"id":213127,"date":"2026-05-08T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/uncategorized\/what-goes-down-must-go-up\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:08:41","slug":"what-goes-down-must-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.eu\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/what-goes-down-must-go-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What Goes Down, Must Go Up (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s theme music: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q7wfTFCIJ9I?si=WKExUdWtrIukBJi6\">Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the basic rules of earthbound gravity is this: \u201cwhat goes up, must come down.\u201d&nbsp; Lately it seems as though stock markets have been ruled by anti-gravity, because the opposite is more likely to be true.&nbsp; In fact, that is the basis of many successful trading strategies.&nbsp; In an environment where \u201cbuy the dip\u201d is 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bottoms that were brought about by major changes in fiscal or monetary policy.&nbsp; This one is occurring without fresh fiscal stimulus, amidst higher yields and lower expectations for rate cuts, and of course higher oil.&nbsp; It is also leaving consumer stocks behind, which raises questions about the sustainability of economic growth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a thing about the \u201cgeneration gap\u201d, though: if you\u2019re a portfolio manager at risk of underperformance, your age doesn\u2019t matter.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can\u2019t bear the risk of missing your benchmark by a wide margin or appearing in the lowest quartile of your peers.&nbsp; That means that you have to acquire and maintain exposure to the stocks and sectors that are driving index performance, whether by buying the shares themselves or through the use of \u201cFOMO insurance,\u201d meaning call options on the relevant stocks, ETFs, or indices.&nbsp; No matter how old and\/or nervous you might be, you have to hold your nose and dive in, no matter what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we also noted, a string of solid earnings reports has been a key, valuable catalyst for the recent rally.&nbsp; There is no shortage of evidence that EPS growth exceeded already-lofty estimates, and that guidance was generally positive \u2013 at least among the companies in the sectors with the heaviest weights in market-capitalization-weighted indices.&nbsp; One fly in the ointment might be the fact that the S&amp;P 500 rose about 10% in a period when forward earnings guidance increased by about 4%.&nbsp; It implies that equity market valuations have outpaced their underlying expectations, but that seems like a quibble right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several market participants have concerns about narrow breadth in this market advance, and it is impossible to ignore them.&nbsp; Note the relative 6-month performances of the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) and S&amp;P 500 (SPX) versus the Equal-Weighted S&amp;P 500 (SPW).&nbsp; In the period 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