At the above pane is the SP:SPX making new lows; I really thoght that the low was already made.
Then in red in Small Cap Growth vs Small Cap Value (IWO/IWN), in green is the S&P Growth vs S&P Value (SPYG/SPYV) and in yellow is the Consumer Discretionary vs Consumer Staples (XLY/XLP).
There are a lot more but these are the most common ratios to evaluate what...
The eternal battle, growth vs value. This ratio AMEX:SPYG / AMEX:SPYV has helped in the past in spotting peaks and throughs of the SP:SPX . But for the las few years, is better at timing bottoms.
It did in the 2018 correction, in the Covid crash of 2019 and is doing it now. The ratio starts to go up just before the market does. Because that's what a bull...
..but please rally "right" :).
The current rally is largely driven by the so called "growth complex" - companies that sell dreams instead earning cash. In a perfect text book world this should not happen at all, particularly given the explosive rise in inflation expectations.
Yes, the market is always right, and far too big to argue with, but still.. meme stock...
Growth is down 1.93%, while value is down only 0.17%. This suggests that the current rut can still be characterized as a rotation rather a broad sell-off. Should vol spike higher this can of course change quickly.
Growth lost about 1% today, while value gained 0,6%. So instead of a pure sell off we rather have a rotation at hand. But lets take a view from 30.000 foot above and put that rotation into context: Starting 2020 the growth/value ratio increased about 50% as illustrated in the chart, what renders today's retracement very marginal. The reason behind the move is...