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Big Money Index Should Hit Oversold Within Days

May 19, 2022 //  by Lucas Downey//  Leave a Comment

We’re in one of the most challenging market environments in years.

Stock prices keep falling. Sentiment is awful. Volatility remains amped. But here’s the positive news: The Big Money Index should hit oversold within days.

Big Money Index Should Hit Oversold Within Days

Look, there’s no denying the pain many investors feel right now. Not only are most stocks falling hard, but there’s a real chance the US slips into a recession. The consumer is under immense pressure.

Out-of-control inflation has investors spooked, clocking in at levels not seen in 40+ years. We’ve all felt it. Food and energy prices have risen sharply. And to make matters worse, the latest earnings reports from Walmart (disclosure long) and Target showed huge misses on the bottom lines.

The 2 retail giants both guided to increased pricing pressures, which resulted in lowered forward EPS expectations. Wall Street wasn’t happy with the message. Since stocks follow earnings, the weak reports sent their stock prices plunging. It kicked off the nasty selloff in markets yesterday.

These results show just how difficult investing has been in 2022. This bear market is sinking just about all stocks…even the stalwarts.

But there’s a silver lining for long-term investors: Relentless selling is what it takes to reach an oversold market.

History shows, these are the times to look for bargains.

Big Money Index Should Hit Oversold Within Days

It’s hard to nail down the exact moment when markets will trigger oversold. I tried to do it back in January, but Mr. Market had other plans.

Eventual leadership in Healthcare, Energy, and Materials caused the BMI to stall its fall. Then, big investors flocked to defensive areas. That type of rotational action kept the BMI range bound.

Only when buyers disappear, can we get a true oversold reading. We’re reaching ever so closer to the green line. The BMI currently sits at 30%:

Big Money Index | Oversold should trigger within days

As a reminder, the BMI is a 5-week moving average of buys to sells. It’s a slow-moving line that was designed to reach the green zone ONLY after buyers vanished. And recently they have.

Get this, last week saw 97% of our signals for sale. The below snapshot is a breakdown of that action by market cap from May 9th – May 13th:

Big Money Buying and Selling by Market Cap

Sellers outnumbered buyers by a ratio of 31:1. That’s “correlation of 1” type action, meaning everything was sold. De-risking was across the board with 10 out of 11 sectors feeling outsized selling. Let’s look at that next.

Here’s last week’s sector action in our weekly MAP View report. As you’ll notice, each sector is ranked from highest to lowest by score (left side). Off to the right is what’s important. In yellow displays any time a sector has >25% of its universe bought/sold.

All groups were sold hard except Energy:

MAPsignals Sector Ranking
Source: FactSet, MAPsignals

We’d have to go back to the pandemic lows to see similar action. And that’s also the last time we saw true oversold conditions.

Here’s a reminder of the last few prior oversold instances. I’ve circled them in yellow:

Big Money Index hitting Oversold

Each of those yellow areas were depressed periods for stocks, very similar to today. I remember them vividly. Headlines were gloomy just like now with awful sentiment. Most felt the investing world was ending.

But the world didn’t end. Businesses ultimately thrived. Markets eventually recovered. Out of despair, new heights were formed. So, as we get ever closer to oversold conditions, here’s a reminder of what we have to potentially look forward to.

Below are the 20 oversold instances going back to 1990. On the left side of the diagram shows a few things. First, oversold conditions typically last 3 weeks (20 trading days) and markets generally trough 2 weeks later.

On the right side is the bigger message: These are some of the best times to buy stocks for the long-term:

(Click image to enlarge)

Average days to through and % drop taken from periods of greater than 1 day

That’s right. On average, the S&P 500 is up 9.6% six months after reaching oversold. Twelve months later stocks gained 16%. Two years later markets saw a whopping 29.2% surge.

Only time will tell if “this time” will lead to big gains. My bet is there’s opportunity in a sea of red.

Let’s wrap up.

Here’s the bottom line: Our data is signaling a massive buy opportunity is near. We’re in the midst of a market washout. All stocks are getting hit hard. Correlation is 1. The Big Money Index should hit oversold within days.

Going through painful pullbacks is never fun. But history has proven that over the long-run, markets eventually work themselves out. I believe companies will grow again.

I can’t tell you what stocks are going to do tomorrow or the next day. No one can. But I’m confident that oversold environments won’t last forever. As a long-term investor, now is the time to be greedy rather than fearful.

That’s the winning attitude.

Don’t give up.

***And if you want to follow our BMI daily and other cool data-driven insights, get started with any level of MAPsignals subscription here. Let data improve your investing process.

 

 

 

Lucas Downey
Lucas Downey

Lucas is co-founder of MAPsignals. His full bio can be found here.
Prior to MAP, he was Head of ETF Sales at Cantor Fitzgerald & SVP of Derivatives at Jefferies, LLC.

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