Monday, November 25, 2019

Correlation Warren-S&P500?

Nov.26, 2019

Hello everybody,
Quite an interesting study yesterday in MarketWatch by Mark Hulbert. The presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren calls for a higher taxation of the rich. The rich claim that stocks will tumble in that case. Mark tried to find a correlation between the odds of Ms.Warren becoming President as estimated by participants of the gambling site PredictIt.org and stocks dynamics. Here is the picture.

S&P500-Warren correlation
Well, I am in two minds about that chart. There are in fact negatively correlated areas, which would imply that Ms.Warren is bad for the stock market. On the other hand, both S&P500 and Ms.Warren's odds have risen substantially since January, which would imply the opposite. What do you think?
Meanwhile, the S&P500 again opened with a gap up Monday. If you ask me, it is clearly an exhaustion gap. Stocks are overbought, and a reversal is imminent (just when will it happen and what will be the pretext?). Anyway, we are short, and remain so. 
Cheers, Vlad

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