BAML Strategists See High Risk, Low Reward Market

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Mark Melin
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We remain in a high risk, low potential reward environment. Last week’s jobs numbers disappointed Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global High Yield Strategy team. While wages were up, market valuations are equally high and “remain far from proper compensation for default risk,” they analysts wrote in a recent report. Their conclusion: This is a high risk market and they re-iterate the recommendation to fade the February 11 market rally — and don’t look back. High risk market: Will the “Dimon bottom” get spanked? It is the rally that some dubbed the “Dimon bottom” that technical and algorithmic analysts have said…

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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.