{"id":216330,"date":"2024-12-12T13:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=216330"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:54:42","slug":"sp-500-halitosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/sp-500-halitosis\/","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P 500 Halitosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pardon the pun in the title.&nbsp; Halitosis is the medical term for bad breath that doesn\u2019t go away.&nbsp; It seemed like an appropriate way to describe the bad <em>breadth<\/em> that has accompanied the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) Index this month. &nbsp;Although SPX was up 0.86% for the month through yesterday, index decliners outpaced advancers every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the evidence:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spx-cumulative-advances-declines-with-index-levels-and-daily-changes\"><strong><em>SPX 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declines are 8 for 8 to the downside.&nbsp; Over that same time period, SPX rose 5 of those 8 days.&nbsp; We\u2019ve all been taught that broader rallies are better, and obviously \u2013 at least within the confines of SPX \u2013 this is anything but.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really wish I could assert that this is a meaningful signal, but it might simply be a statistical oddity.&nbsp; Eight days is hardly a significant sample size, and it\u2019s not as though SPX ripped higher during the short time period in question.&nbsp; Certain stocks did \u2013 I\u2019m looking at you, Tesla (TSLA) \u2013 and within the confines of a top-heavy capitalization weighted index that can be sufficient.&nbsp; It was certainly the case yesterday, when we saw aggressive \u201cbuy the dip\u201d activity in megacap tech names after two days of selling.&nbsp; An in-line CPI report was apparently good enough to spur a bit of a relief rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet there is one other signal that seems to require some consideration among the overall enthusiasm.&nbsp; <a href=\"\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/complacency-or-correlation\/?query=cor1m&amp;query_id=BZI2rJKoQAyWrAc-Q-kZLg&amp;index=engine-name-placeholder&amp;user_token=BZI2rJKoQAyWrAc-Q-kZLg\">We\u2019ve occasionally noted<\/a> when the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) fails to follow the Cboe 1-Month Correlation Index (COR1M) lower.&nbsp; In general, high correlations within an index leads to higher volatility and vice versa.&nbsp; Recently we have seen COR1M sink, but VIX seems to have found a level, albeit a low one.&nbsp; This is something that we\u2019ve seen before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-months-cor1m-white-vix-red\"><strong><em>6-Months, COR1M (white), VIX (red)<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"559\" 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Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note how VIX moved sideways in June-July, late August, October, and November even as COR1M moved lower.&nbsp; Each case was followed by a jump in VIX.&nbsp; And the longer the divergence, the bigger the VIX jump; the August jump was the implosion of the yen carry trade, while the other spikes in VIX were the result of relatively modest selling.&nbsp; We see the same thing occurring now, but it is far too early to say that we have reached an extreme or a worrisome divergence.&nbsp; But when we combine that with our findings from earlier this week, when we noted that below market SPX options were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/schrodingers-puts\/\">simultaneously rich AND cheap<\/a>, implying that there is indeed demand for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/someone-is-buying-insurance\/\">market insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 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