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Animal Spirits: State of the American Investor
Michael Batnick
August 27, 2025
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On today’s show, we discuss:
Charts:
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More stocks are trending higher — not fewer.
58.6% of S&P 500 names sit above both their 50 & 200-day averages. Only 19.5% are below both.
This isn’t narrow leadership. It’s broad participation fueling the trend.
Breadth is confirming the bull.
— Grant Hawkridge (@granthawkridge)
10:23 AM • Aug 25, 2025
Friday was a rare 90/90 day, meaning 90% of the volume and stocks on the NYSE were higher.
These events tend to be quite bullish, with the S&P 500 higher more than 90% of the time a year later and up more than 23% on average.
— Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick)
9:57 PM • Aug 24, 2025
Crazy stat from Instacart that highlights the moat these ZIRP-era companies have:
“It took us 100 million orders before we were able to get to positive unit economics”
Nobody is going fund a new competitor. The battle will be won by the current players on the field
— BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital)
1:16 AM • Aug 24, 2025
Call options volume across all U.S. stocks and ETFs hit the second highest level in history today, almost 47 million contracts changing hands
— Gunjan Banerji (@GunjanJS)
11:29 PM • Aug 22, 2025
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