{"id":13539,"date":"2011-06-01T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:50:14","slug":"sp-500-short-interest-update-aka-where-are-the-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/sp-500-short-interest-update-aka-where-are-the-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P 500 &#8211; Short Interest Update (aka &#8211; Where Are The Bears?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it. With the Fed watching every move of the markets and everyone wondering how much additional stimulus\/money\/QE will come, the bears are not too interested in fighting the Fed.<\/p>\n<p>For confirmation, the short interest ratio for the S&amp;P 500 index is sitting at a point that does not show any bearish conviction. However, digging a little deeper shows that there has been a substantial rise in short interest for \u00a0 <!--more-->the Consumer Discretionary sector. Obviously the price of gas and the potential for any real wage growth has some bears coming out of hibernation and targeting retailers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/siratioSP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13561\" title=\"siratioSP\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/siratioSP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: When short interest is high, there is often the potential for a short-squeeze rally if economics, earnings and news turn positive. When low, there may be too much complacency and\/or bullishness and that gives the opportunity for sellers to step it up on any disappointing news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it. With the Fed watching every move of the markets and everyone wondering how much additional stimulus\/money\/QE will come, the bears are not too interested in fighting the Fed. For confirmation, the short interest ratio for the S&amp;P 500 index is sitting at a point that does not show any bearish conviction. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[483,497],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-markets","tag-strategy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}