Conflicting Signals

by: Bill Zimmer Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 10:10 am

Yesterday the major averages went nowhere on the lightest volume so far this year. Can you say summer doldrums? However we had nice gaps higher in Bonds and Gold indicating a flight to safety.  Click images to make full size.

Interestingly however when doing some screening of our database of Optionable stocks last evening I came across the following; quite a number of stocks showing a positive divergence with our accumulation model indicating they may want to go higher over the short term. Which kind of flies in the face of a flight to safety, does it not?

Of course as the old cliche’ goes; “It’s not a stock market. It is a market of stocks.