VIX and the S&P are starting to trend higher now. VIX is still above its November 2017 low, but the S&P 500 is much higher than where it was in November 2017.

Zerohedge recently illustrated a market study that seems insanely bearish for the stock market, until you look at the details.

*It never ceases to amaze me how Zerohedge and other permabears can cherry-pick the data to fit their “the world is ending” view.

On August 21, 2018: the S&P made a new all-time high while VIX was at least 40% above its lowest point over the past year. (In other words, the S&P and VIX are going up together).

When this happened historically (from 1999-present), this was super bearish for the stock market.

1999
2007
late-2014.

Once again, this is an example of permabears cherry-picking the data to fit their “the world is ending” view. That’s why we need to look at ALL the data.

Here are this market study’s signals, from 1990-present.

Click here to download the data in Excel

As you can see, VIX and the S&P CONSISTENTLY went up together during the second half of the 1990s. This was not bearish for the stock market in the 1990s. This indicator resulted in a LOT of false bearish signals.

Conclusion

VIX and the S&P 500 are going up together right now. This tells you that we are in the late innings of this bull market. HOWEVER, it does not tell you that the bull market will end tomorrow, next week, next month, or even next year. This is not a timing indicator.

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By Troy Bombardia

BullMarkets.co

I’m Troy Bombardia, the author behind BullMarkets.co. I used to run a hedge fund, but closed it due to a major health scare. I am now enjoying life and simply investing/trading my own account. I focus on long term performance and ignore short term performance.

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