Cyclicality is on the rise as Japan, equity market inflows alongside credit and gold make up a basket of long market exposure, an August 11 Bank of America Merrill Lynch research piece notes. Market prices and inflows are tending increase while the bank’s Bull & Bear Indicator shows “sentiment getting more bullish but not yet at an extreme.” BAML notes Japanese equities see largest inflows since January, while others eye central bank stimulus impact on “melt-up” At $1.6 billion, Japanese equities have seen their largest inflows since January of this month, a “The Flow Show” report from BAML’s…
BAML “The Final Melt-up”
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.