PNC Financial sees signs that January’s market rally could go bust.
According to its co-chief investment strategist, one of the firm’s key short-term indicators is flashing a sell-off signal.
“Ninety percent of stocks are now above their one-month highs. Typically, that leads to a little bit of a slowdown,” Jeffrey Mills said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Futures Now.”
And, he cites a second compromising factor for the rally.
“The market is a little tactically overbought,” he said “Just as that started to happen we bumped up against that 2,650 resistance line where the market really broke down in December.”
Combine those two factors, and Mills predicts the potential of a nasty market shake-up.
“I’m not that surprised to see a little bit of a pause here,” said Mills.
He believes retesting the December lows — which would be a 10 percent drop from current S&P 500 levels — wouldn’t be out of the question because the market may need to digest the swiftness of the recent run-up.
With a barrage of big corporate earnings reports, a Federal Reserve decision on interest rates and the January employment report coming out this week, Mills suggests a deep sell-off could happen within days.
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