Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
I'm thinking about buying a subscription to McClellan as well; I can't get enough charts.
From Tom McClellan.
Bond CEFs Now Saying Liquidity Is In Trouble.
When liquidity starts to dry up, the least deserving issues tend to get culled first from the herd. That is what we are seeing now in the bond CEF A-D Line. These liquidity-sensitive issues have already turned downward as a group, even though the SP500 was able to continue higher. This is a message that there are now liquidity problems facing the market, even though the Fed is continuing to drop money from helicopters every month. Perhaps $85 billion a month is just not enough.
The larger point is that these issues are more liquidity sensitive than others. So if we see them suffering as a group, then the message is there is a liquidity problem which will likely come around to bite the rest of the market. And when the market sees a meaningful dip for the SP500 without the bond CEFs getting hurt, the message is that it is likely a problem other than liquidity, e.g. geopolitics, investor mood, etc. Those are easier problems for the market to get through than liquidity problems, which take longer to solve.