The last time we saw this was just before the stock market crash in 2000…

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October 1 (King World News) – Here is a portion of today’s note from Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader:  Options traders are showing a historic preference for speculating on the upside. In recent weeks and months, they’ve spent most of their options volume on buying speculative calls. At the same time, they don’t want to risk a large rally by selling calls, leading to the largest call buy/sell ratio since 2000…

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Jason Goepfert continues:  …across all U.S. exchanges, traders continued to buy a lot of speculative call options and became even less interested in selling calls. There has been a steady decline in call selling, as traders become ever more afraid that the market will melt up and take their short call position with them.

If we look at the ratio of call buying to call selling (Figure 2), then we can see just how much this has changed over the years, as trader sentiment becomes more and more leveraged to a rising market.

The ratio of call buying to call selling volume is at record highs, over a multi- month time frame (see chart below).

Even adjusting for the long- term drift higher, the current bout of sentiment is the highest since 2000 (see chart below).

This is about as pure a reflection of option trader sentiment as we can get. The current value was exceeded only by the ending months of the 2000 popping of the bubble.

King World News note:  There are so many danger signals pointing to a stock market decline.  When the market reverses it will be very ugly on the downside before the reckless bullishness finally recedes.

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