Despite the constant clamor of money-on-the-sidelines (which Cliff Asness has summarily dismissed as being idiotic) and strength in US equity markets being ‘the most unloved rally of all time’, the following two charts suggest people are anything but unimpressed by it. Citi’s Panic/Euphoria sentiment model has hovered in the clearly “euphoric” levels for a month and now the AAII Bull/Bear split is back near exuberant highs. Of course, as we noted yesterday, the real strength behind stocks is the incessant non-economic irrational and indiscriminate mystery buyer – corporate buybacks – that are creating their own mal-investment signaling exuberance in the always efficient stock ‘markets’.
Bulls are back…
And investors are euphoric…
Seems like the perfect time to BTFATH… (or not if Citi’s sentiment-based forward retur estimate is anything to go by)
Charts: @Not_Jim_Cramer and Citi
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