NYSE Investor Credit and the Market: Another Caution Signal

Posted on: 09, Jun, 2011

Doug Short submits: Tuesday I featured a commentary on NYSE Margin Debt and the S&P 500 that illustrated the growth of margin debt since 1995 and the correlation with market peaks. After it appeared, Lance Roberts, General Partner & CEO of Streettalk Advisors, sent me his analysis of the situation based on the larger context of the NYSE data that includes free cash accounts and credit balances in margin accounts. Essentially, the Credit Balance is calculated as the sum of F...

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