A Three-Sigma Bond Market Black Swan Warning To Stocks – Dave Kranzler
The Big Daddy Bond Price Black Swan
Bond market extremes often mark important turning points in the S&P and other markets. The March 2015 peak in T-Bonds is consistent with the crash in crude oil prices, the peak in the US dollar index, and the peak in the S&P 500. March may be an important turning point in all four markets, in addition to increased trauma relating to Greek debt, war in the Ukraine, war in Yemen, the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), US credibility, and an acceleration in the use of other (non-dollar) currencies in global trade. – Gary Christenson, The Deviant Investor
TND Guest Contributor: Dave Kranzler |
Gary Christenson has published an incredible statistical analysis of the 30-yr U.S. Bond market. The long bond hit 165 on March 25, marking an all-time high. More interestingly, it closed up nearly 12% from February’s month-end close. This was a 3.61 standard deviation change (i.e. a 3.6 sigma event) in terms of the average monthly rate of change over a data series that goes back to 1977 (In 1977 the 30yr bond became part of the Treasuries quarterly refunding operations).
As Gary points out in his article, linked above, a 3.6 sigma move in the bond market is about as rare an event as a major league pitcher throwing a perfect game (27 batters, no hits, no walks). This has occurred just 23 times in more than 300,000 games played over 135 years. In economic parlance, the March move in the long bond – aka “the Big Daddy” – is a Black Swan event.
The last time the 30yr bond experienced a 3-sigma move was November 2008, just as the Government was moving $800 billion from the Taxpayers to Wall Street. This time around the Too Big To Fail banks have their next collapse pre-funded with $2.6 trillion in excess reserves sitting at the Fed collecting interest (this is where most of the QE ended up).
Had the Fed not already pre-planned the next market collapse by insulating the banks with $2.6 trillion of crash insurance, it is likely that the stock market would have already crashed by now.
HOWEVER, we have seen a collapse in the price of oil and a slow-motion collapse since early 2011 in many key commodities (copper, lumber, sugar). The Baltic Dry Index recently hit an all-time low and is bouncing along a historical bottom. Everyone by now knows that the retail sales have entered what appears to be a monthly free-fall (on a relative scale for retail sales) and the labor force participation just hit a low not seen since 1978. In other words, it would appear that the the U.S. economy is starting to experience a de facto collapse.
The Fed will not be able to keep the stock market propped up like it has forever. Every day the stock market remains at the current level or moves higher, it becomes further dislocated from economic reality. While most analysts point to p/e ratios and remark that the current market is not the most overvalued in history, they fail to mention that the comparisons are not valid. If today’s earnings were adjusted using 1990 accounting standards, the current p/e ratio of the S&P 500 would be, by far, the highest ever on record.
In my opinion, the Big Daddy Bond Price Black Swan which Gary Christenson has eruditely identified, is the warning signal that a serious accident in the stock market is somewhere close by.
Source: http://thenewsdoctors.com/a-three-sigma-bond-market-black-swan-warning-to-stocks-dave-kranzler/
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