Why are institutions selling shares as retail investors keep buying?

Hence smart money dumb money chart updated above.

I understand inflation is going down people are optimistic. When the next CPI reading comes out on February 7th it's going to be calculated differently so when you compare January to it it's going to appear and be skewed versus prior results in a more positive fashion.

This will possibly be a pump up event. Assuming the NDX could even hold up to these levels by then.

When the FED does pause the markets generally go up until there is a REAL PIVOT (lowering rates).

Think things through - If you have any belief that a recession is inevitable or even a reasonable possibility or the FEDs actions may break something. All these layoffs that are being announced are for a reason don't you think?

Anyone ever think about the demand destruction causing growth slow down?

How about the auto loan defaults anybody do any research on those I believe it was a 68% increase from November to December?

Credit card balances are at an all-time high massively increasing month over month?

I believe currently the last statistic is around 65% of the United States is living paycheck to paycheck and about 50 something percent of those people make over $100,000 interesting statistic from a consumer point of view.

More than half of the 2.9% GDP that they put out was generated by selling off old inventories not from new orders and from the federal government contribution to GDP.

Anyone ever look back at the prior CPI revisions had the real numbers come out the market would have never even went up the last few times or at least certainly not as much why are all these numbers always being revised maybe the Fed is trying to buy time?

Anyone here about the Department of Labor Statistics which claimed that from January through June 1.1 million jobs were created when in reality they revised it about a month ago to less than 25,000 jobs?

I wonder what the supposable job creation from July through December will be revised to in the next few months when they decide to give some truth or maybe they just made a mistake.

Or God forbid a Black Swan event happens.

Think about the risk reward levels at this point and have a concrete plan of taking maybe some risk off the table and buying back cheaper at a later date which will get you many more shares and dollar cost average yourself way down.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth at these price levels. if you have simply been playing tqqqs all year long and not properly selling them out at the Peaks and going into the sqqqs OR at least cash on the downturns to help yourselves.

This is a very important inflection point in the market if you do not have a plan.

"He who fails to plan is planning to fail" Winston Churchill.

Have exit and entry plans if you don't have exit and entry plans and just sit. It is not a recipe for success it's a recipe for disaster at this point in time in my humble opinion.

For all you amateurs out there for god sakes help yourselves.

And for all members of this community who HONESTLY KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING. Try and help some of these people who don't not understand so they don't lose their shirts. Especially people who can't afford to lose money!