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https://articles.stockcharts.com/articl ... ge-beware/
January 30, 2026
The following comments by Tom Bowley shed more light on the wisdom of Cobra's chart 8.1.0 Extremely Low CPCE Readings Watch
All Eyes On Sentiment
Finally, equity options traders have gone all in. They've been buying equity call options like there's no tomorrow.
When this trade gets one sided, we're typically ripe for at least short-term weakness.
Any time the 10-day SMA of the CPCE has moved down to or below 0.52, not-so-good market action has mostly taken place. Again, this suggests a very crowded trade in which equity options buyers believe the stock market can only go higher. We know how that usually ends — painfully for those options buyers.