{"id":1759,"date":"2019-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/market-risk-report-april-8-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:37:37","slug":"market-risk-report-april-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/market-risk-report-april-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Risk Report as of April 8, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Chief Investment Officer Tom Veale,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upward pressure on market risk eased this week. The Market Risk Indicator (MRI) rose one point to 25% suggested cash for diversified stock portfolios while the MRI Oscillator came in at +2. The lower MRI Oscillator value suggests we\u2019ll see a slowing rise going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two MRI components rose slightly while two dropped. All are currently in their own neutral ranges as is the overall MRI reading. The last time the S&amp;P 500 was this high, market risk (as measured by our MRI) was quite a bit higher. This would indicate we may have modest upside growth available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advancing stocks last week outnumbered decliners by over 2:1 ratio. The number of new 52 week highs eclipsed the new lows by a substantial margin as well. Both of these statistics indicate reasonable health for the markets. I noted that we had healthy gains in both domestic and international stock ETFs last week. This suggests the \u201ctrade war\u201d dialog is less threatening than it had been.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tom-Veale-Market-Risk-Report-4.8.2019.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"811\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Market Risk Indicator (MRI) is an assessment tool that serves as a guide through all markets as to the prudent use of a liquid cash cushion. It helps determine an approximation of the amount of cash reserve relative to a diversified equity portfolio. (this is depicted by the graph above)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At times of high risk in the market, the MRI will suggest a higher level of cash reserve. At times of low market risk, the MRI will suggest a lower level of cash reserve. This investment process helps to measure and manage market risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of this, the fear associated with the uncertainty of the market can be replaced by the security of a sound investment strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Chief Investment Officer Tom Veale, \u201cUpward pressure on market risk eased this week. The Market Risk Indicator (MRI) rose one point to 25% suggested cash for diversified stock portfolios while the MRI Oscillator came in at +2. The lower MRI Oscillator value suggests we\u2019ll see a slowing rise going forward. Two MRI components rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_statement":"","post_description":"","post_cta":"","post_button":"Read More","post_button_url":"","compliance_id":"","post_disclaimer":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.signalpointinvest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}