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Bearishness among retail investors reached its highest since June after the last CPI report, Vanda Research says. Individual investors appear to be raising their allocation to money market funds and cash. The cohort is likely increase net buying of speculative assets over the next two weeks if the S&P 500 can sustain a rally. US retail investors slowed the pace of their stock purchases following another hot inflation report that inspired huge equity swings, but a sustainable bear-market rally could revive their appetite to buy, Vanda Research said Wednesday. The firm in a weekly update said bearishness among individual investors was at its highest since June. Average daily net inflows of $938 million a day over the last five trading days have been sharply lower than the year-to-date average. Daily net inflows on average tend to top more than $1 billion. It also pointed out that the ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF has topped its VandaTrack leaderboard almost every day over the last few sessions.

The Good, The Bad, & The GoodBad Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Another morning of overnight volatility and the 30-year gilt moving 50 bps (in the “right” direction this time). The markets moved at least twice overnight in response to “ intervention ” news. Gilts bounced on news from the BOE that they will buy as many long-dated bonds as needed to calm the market . There are varying degrees of Central Bank autonomy, and my understanding is the BOE has more political hoops to jump through than the Fed, for example. Maybe that is why we got QE rather than an emergency 100 bp hike? Just Monday, the market was hoping for an emergency hike, only to be disappointed. Now we are back to easier money rather than tighter money, yet it is helping. Hence the term GoodBad. Markets did not like when the White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said he didn’t expect another Plaza accord to globally control the dollar’s strength . There has been a lot more chatter about this as DXY (a dollar index) is 27% above its levels from the summer of 2021 (in an almost straight line) and it is 11% higher than at any point in the last 20 years!

Tchir: Braking, Breaking, Broken, Broke Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, I’m incredibly worried about the state of the economy, markets, and geopolitics ( please see Putin’s Speech SITREP ). With football season in full swing, maybe we will get a “bend but doesn’t break” type of market. Sentiment survey’s like AAII are sending some contrarian signals. That survey (which was published on Wednesday and presumably did not fully include the impact of the FOMC meeting) had bulls at a measly 17.7% and hit a yearly high of 60.9% of respondents being bearish. The CNN Fear & Greed index nudged back to extreme fear, but at a rating of 24, there is room for more fear (coincidentally, the index had the same reading this time last year before the S&P 500 rallied 10% into year-end). But enough of looking at the “bright” side of things. Let’s move on to things that are braking, breaking, or even broken (hopefully not driving us broke). Where To Start? There are so many places to start and it is difficult to pick just one .

Bearishness among retail investors reached its highest since June after the last CPI report, Vanda Research says. Individual investors appear to be raising their allocation to money market funds and cash. The cohort is likely increase net buying of speculative assets over the next two weeks if the S&P 500 can sustain a rally. US retail investors slowed the pace of their stock purchases following another hot inflation report that inspired huge equity swings, but a sustainable bear-market rally could revive their appetite to buy, Vanda Research said Wednesday. The firm in a weekly update said bearishness among individual investors was at its highest since June. Average daily net inflows of $938 million a day over the last five trading days have been sharply lower than the year-to-date average. Daily net inflows on average tend to top more than $1 billion. It also pointed out that the ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF has topped its VandaTrack leaderboard almost every day over the last few sessions.

The Good, The Bad, & The GoodBad Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Another morning of overnight volatility and the 30-year gilt moving 50 bps (in the “right” direction this time). The markets moved at least twice overnight in response to “ intervention ” news. Gilts bounced on news from the BOE that they will buy as many long-dated bonds as needed to calm the market . There are varying degrees of Central Bank autonomy, and my understanding is the BOE has more political hoops to jump through than the Fed, for example. Maybe that is why we got QE rather than an emergency 100 bp hike? Just Monday, the market was hoping for an emergency hike, only to be disappointed. Now we are back to easier money rather than tighter money, yet it is helping. Hence the term GoodBad. Markets did not like when the White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said he didn’t expect another Plaza accord to globally control the dollar’s strength . There has been a lot more chatter about this as DXY (a dollar index) is 27% above its levels from the summer of 2021 (in an almost straight line) and it is 11% higher than at any point in the last 20 years!

Tchir: Braking, Breaking, Broken, Broke Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, I’m incredibly worried about the state of the economy, markets, and geopolitics ( please see Putin’s Speech SITREP ). With football season in full swing, maybe we will get a “bend but doesn’t break” type of market. Sentiment survey’s like AAII are sending some contrarian signals. That survey (which was published on Wednesday and presumably did not fully include the impact of the FOMC meeting) had bulls at a measly 17.7% and hit a yearly high of 60.9% of respondents being bearish. The CNN Fear & Greed index nudged back to extreme fear, but at a rating of 24, there is room for more fear (coincidentally, the index had the same reading this time last year before the S&P 500 rallied 10% into year-end). But enough of looking at the “bright” side of things. Let’s move on to things that are braking, breaking, or even broken (hopefully not driving us broke). Where To Start? There are so many places to start and it is difficult to pick just one .

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (NASDAQ: SQQQ ) surged Thursday while markets tumble. The SQQQ is a 3x leveraged inverse ETF that tracks the Nasdaq 100 Index. The top five companies in the index are Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL ), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT ), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN ), Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA ) … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Source: Shutterstock There’s much speculation on the tempo at which the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise its interest rates to curb inflationary pressure. In that environment, exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, can be appealing options for investors. Regardless of the actual pace, one thing’s for sure: short-term interest rates will rise significantly. The treasury yield curve is steepened, suggesting a significant difference between implied short-term interest rates versus long-duration rates. Steepening of the curve and narrowing of the 10-1Y spread on the treasury yield also tells us we’re headed into a contractionary economic cycle that entails cyclical stock performance. Many investors tend to pull their money out of the market whenever yields rise. However, a smart investor knows cyclicality can be your friend. Nonetheless, volatility remains an issue during rising interest rates, so you ideally want to avoid idiosyncratic risk by opting for ETFs rather than single stocks. The 7 Best Stocks to Buy for June 2022 With that in mind, here are three ETFs to buy during a rising interest-rate environment.

Retail Investors Are Flooding In To Buy Meta''s Face-plant Dip Years of BTFD instinct don''t go away just like that, and with Facebook plunging the 26%, its biggest drop ever, and also the biggest loss of market cap by any company in US history - putting it in context FB has lost more value today than the market cap of 455 S&P500 members - and after its opening collapse, the retail crew has arrived and according to Fidelity, thousands of retail investors are buying the dip this morning. According to Fidelity , FB was by far the most traded among individual investors using Fidelitys platform, with volumes more than five times that of Tesla, the second-most traded stock according to Bloomberg. The imbalance was 80% in favor of dip buyers, with more than 49k buy orders placed on the platform as of 11:52am, compared to 12k sell orders as of 11:52 a.m. in New York. In context, the staggering amount of buy orders was roughly seven times the demand for Amazon, the second-most bought stock. The flood of retail buying is hardly as surprise, and it represents a continuation of the relentless, if somewhat more subdued, purchases by ordinary investors.

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (NASDAQ:SQQQ)s stock price traded up 3.9% during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $6.91 and last traded at $6.86. 720,058 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 99% from the average session volume of 96,602,922 shares. The stock had previously closed at $6.60. The company has []

Sicart Associates LLC boosted its stake in shares of ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (NASDAQ:SQQQ) by 48.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 37,020 shares of the companys stock after acquiring an additional 12,000 shares during the quarter. Sicart Associates LLCs holdings []

Shares of ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (NASDAQ:SQQQ) gapped down before the market opened on Tuesday . The stock had previously closed at $6.66, but opened at $6.30. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ shares last traded at $6.22, with a volume of 914,278 shares trading hands. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $7.11 and its 200-day […]

Flow Traders U.S. LLC bought a new stake in shares of ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (NASDAQ:SQQQ) during the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm bought 21,260 shares of the companys stock, valued at approximately $194,000. Other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. JTC Employer Solutions Trusteee Ltd purchased a new []