The stock market just did something it hasn't done in at least 34 years
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According to Bespoke Investment Group, the intraday trading range for the S&P 500 - that is, the range between the highest and lowest point stocks trade during the day - has been the tightest over the past 50 days of any period going back to when their intraday database started in 1984.
"In a post on Monday, we noted that the average intraday range for the S&P 500 over the last 50 trading days had reached its second narrowest level on record, and that if the S&P 500 did not trade in a range of more than 1% on Tuesday that it would be the narrowest average range in a 50-trading day period on record," said Bespoke in a note.
"Well, in Tuesday's trading the S&P 500's intraday range came in at just 0.37%, pushing the 50-day average intraday high/low range down to 0.523%, which is the lowest level since at least 1983 when our historical database begins."
Not only has the average intraday range been incredibly low, but the S&P 500 has gone 50 days without an intraday range of more than 1% said Bespoke, well over the previous record streak of 34 days in the mid-1990s.
Over that time period, the VIX index - which measures the volatility of the S&P 500 - has stayed relatively range-bound as well between 10.5 and 13, well below its long-term average.
As Bespoke concluded,"Now, that's a lack of volatility!"
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