* long-term US equity bulls do NOT want to see consecutive days of Selling Imbalances
$2.5 Billion - Market on Close selling imbalance - Wednesday January 18, 2022 - reported 3:51 pm ET
$935 Million - Market on Close selling imbalance - Tuesday December 20, 2022 - reported 3:52 pm ET
$232 Million - Market on Close buying imbalance - Monday December 19, 2022, reported 3:53 pm ET
$5.1 Billion - Market on Close buying imbalance - Friday December 16, 2022, reported 3:52 pm ET
$316 Million - Market on Close buying imbalance - Thursday December 15, 2022, reported 3:53 pm Eastern
na - the end of day MOC imbalance was not updated by my source on Wednesday December 14
$1.1 Billion - Market on Close buying imbalance - Tuesday December 13, 2022, reported 3:52 pm Eastern
$410 Million - Market on Close selling imbalance - Monday December 12, 2022 - 3:51 pm Eastern
$3.2 Billion - Market on Close selling imbalance - Friday December 9, 2022 - 3:51 pm Eastern
* $2.3 to $9.5 Billion represents historical large or extreme size for selling imbalances
** in the first 13 trading days of January 2016, the size of the MOC sell imbalances was larger than usual ... and was seen for consecutive days which is a rare event
Note - Phil Mackintosh, Chief Economist for the Nasdaq in 2019, has written a thorough article explaining the importance to market liquidity that institutions and market professionals are provided the preliminary MOC Imbalance quantity announcements in advance of each day's close for each individual stock ( article published September 2019 ) |