Thursday, January 24, 2013

Another Measure

In another measure of how overbought we have become, here is a chart from Bespoke Investment Group showing the Percentage of stocks trading above their 50 day moving averages.  




According to Bespoke, "90% of the stocks in the S&P 500 are currently trading above their 50-day moving averages.  This is the highest reading we've seen over the last year, and it's only the sixth time we've crossed the 90% barrier since the bull market began in 2009.   Six of ten S&P 500 sectors have readings at 90% or greater as well.  The Industrials sector has the highest percentage of stocks above their 50-days at 97%, followed closely by Financials at 96%.  Technology, Energy, Utilities and Materials are the other four sectors with readings above 90%.  Telecom and Consumer Discretionary have the lowest percentage of stocks above their 50-days at 63% and 78%, respectively."

 Link:   Percentage of Stocks Above 50 Day Moving Averages