Since double bottoming 14 months ago, S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) has been on a persistent path higher.
This rally has the pushed the large cap index into overbought territory on multiple time frames.
Today we’ll focus on a longer-term “monthly” chart of S&P 500 Futures to highlight how overbought this move is. Eye the futures chart above as you read through the following bullet points about the indicator:
- Moving average = 19-period (HLC/3)
- Bollinger Bands = 2.326 standard deviations (98% of observations fall within if normal distribution)
- Overbought = ((upper band value – close)/upper band value)*100, to get in percentage terms. Then ranked the observations.
- Only 3 observations where close>upper band.
This doesn’t necessarily mean a sell-off is forthcoming, as “overbought” can be remedied through time and/or price and the moving average has positive slope itself. However, the first two occurrences saw meaningful reversals.
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