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June 2016 - Page 26 of 28 - Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From

A Stock Market Crash Is Near When Hedge Fund Managers Do This

You can tell a stock market crash is lurking on the horizon by watching the behavior of hedge fund managers.

As a group, they've been fleeing stocks since early February. They believe the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policies, trouble in China, and a limp U.S. economy spell trouble for stocks.

Retail investors will want to protect themselves.

And the best strategy is to buy what these hedge fund managers have been buying...

How to Profit in This "Boxed" Market

The market is sending us decidedly mixed signals right now. We've had some welcome upward moves lately, notwithstanding a little halfhearted profit-taking yesterday.

Analysts all have different explanations for the buoyant markets – oil prices, the strong dollar, an uptick in dealmaking, and now even surging new home sales. Those are all to the good, but I think they're overestimating the importance of those factors.

Don't get me wrong – it's OK to get excited about the rally, because there are some constructive technical reasons to like it. Critically, lots of stocks in most sectors have come along for the ride.

But here's where those mixed signals I was talking about come in. The welcome upward moves just haven't been able to get the markets out of the "box" they've been stuck in for the past eight weeks or so. And, as you'll see, there's still a great deal of uncertainty about one sector in particular.

So I'm going to show you what my technical analysis reveals about how we can get "out" of the box, and where we'll likely land when we get there.

And then I'll recommend some profit plays to make right now...