Is the Market Feeding The Bears Technology Stocks?
Chris Kimble | May 05, 2022 04:39PM ET
The stock market has seen some ugly action in 2022. But one thing has become clear: growth stocks have been battered worse than value stocks.
Within this spectrum, we can also see that technology stocks (also associated with growth) have performed worse than the broad market. It seems the market is “feeding” the bears tech stocks.
We take a closer look at this theme today by looking at a long-term ratio chart of the S&P 500 Index (broad market) to the NASDAQ Composite.
As you can see, the ratio has been moving higher over the past several months. This indicates that the broad market is performing better than the Nasdaq. And the rally is now attempting to break out above a six-year downtrend line.
We must also consider that the ratio double bottomed at a key Fibonacci timing point (21 years) before turning higher.
Simply put, strength by this ratio is bearish for technology stocks. So a breakout would “feed” the bearish case for technology stocks moving forward. Stay tuned.
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