"Consider the latest readings of the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index (HSNSI), which reflects the average recommended stock market exposure among a subset of short-term stock market timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest. As of Monday night, the HSNSI stood at 40.2%. That's barely half its record high reading of 79.7%.
Furthermore, consider that Wednesday, the day before the stock market's big drop that took nearly 150 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average , the HSNSI stood at 59.6%. Even though the DJIA as of Monday's close was back almost to the same level as last Wednesday's, the HSNSI is nearly 20 percentage points lower."
The "call" is that the S&P 500 is very close to topping out. That's the call. How is the premise that the S&P 500 is very close to topping out wrong based only on what happened today ??