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Secrets for Thrivingin a Hedge-Fund Dominated Market
Joe BellSenior Equity AnalystSchaeffer’s Investment Research, Inc.
September 11, 2012
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www.schaeffersresearch.com
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What to Expect
• Our Trading Philosophy
• Herd Mentality
• Market Sentiment
• Sentiment Indicators
• Adapting to Market Environment
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Expectational Analysis ®
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FUNDAMENTAL TECHNICAL
SENTIMENT
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The Ashe Experiment
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Fashion
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Herd Behavior
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Stock Market Crowds
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“The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it should be cautious
and prudent; and is most fearful when it should be bold.”
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Humphrey B. Neill
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Four Stages of a Rally and Decline
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Euphoria (bearish)
Disbelief
Acceptance (bearish)
Despair (bullish)
Disbelief (bullish)
Acceptance (bullish)
Euphoria (bearish)
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The Wisdom of the Great Sanhedrin
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Sentiment• Anecdotal
– Media, blogs, Twitter, friends & family, magazine covers
• Surveys/Forecasts
• Quantitative– Option activity, option open interest, put/call
ratios, implied volatility, short interest, analyst ratings, inflows/outflows
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Probably the Most Famous Contrarian
Magazine Cover
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Do Not Buy Commodity ETFs
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“If everyone is thinking alike,
then somebody isn’t thinking.”
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Potash (POT)
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Agriculture ETF
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Same Day as the Market Bottom in ‘09
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Within Hours of a Major Market Peak
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Sentiment Surveys
• AAII Poll
• NAAIM Poll
• Investors Intelligence Report
• Bloomberg Strategist Allocation
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Investors Intelligence Report
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NAAIM
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Wall Street Strategist Allocation
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41.50%
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Analyst Buy Ratings
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Incorporating Bearish Analyst Ratings
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Incorporating Bullish Analyst Ratings
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Fading Option Speculators
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Stock TOL= $25.00
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$25$26$27$28
The Unwind
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Trade Example – 6/18/12
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Sentiment on TOL
• Several analysts still doubt stock
• SI/Float = 9%
• June 26-strike put = 7,500 puts
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TOL August 22 call - $4.40
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$10.00
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Contrarian Quote
“When someone yells ‘fire’ in a crowded theater, a contrarian is the person who first checks to see if there really is a fire before rushing to the door.”
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Short Interest
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Where is the Retail Trader?
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-$325 Billion
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There They Are!
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+$911 Billion
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Applying Ratios with Hedge Funds Involved
• Buy-to-Open Individual Equity P/C Ratios
• Puts on ETFs are popular hedges
• VIX calls are popular hedges
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10-Day Equity BTO P/C Ratio
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VIX BTO Call/Put ratio
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A Contrarian Technical Analyst?
• Be Aware of “Obvious” Set-Ups
• Popular Moving Averages
• Indicator Defaults– 95% don’t change them
• Confirm on Multiple Time Frames
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Think Like a “Sentimentician”• Don’t always follow the herd
• Look for stocks or ETFs that have low expectations
• Low expectations translate into potential buying power
• Success comes from buying low expectations, not “low prices”
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“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
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