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UBS Trade Desk Says Stock Market Top Is Near

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Mark Melin
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Is a stock market top near? As the U.S. presidential race appears to be taking shape, technical analysis from UBS indicates a coincidental numeric oddity: trend indicators that speak to stock market internals “are reaching overbought extremes,” the report said as the S&P 500 index traded near 2018 today. The outlook for stocks, furthermore, isn’t much different than the outlook for the recent bull rally in commodities.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.