DC Lite #93

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1. Gold fund flows. Gold funds saw the largest inflow (+$1.1bn) since May 2023.

2. Household allocations. "Households allocate 48% of their financial assets to equities, matching their all-time high equity allocation reached in March 2000."

3. Equity futures positioning. Leveraged fund and asset manager positioning in US equity futures is at its lowest in ~6 months.

4. SPY vs. IWM skew. "Russell 2000 skew is very, very low."

5. Nasdaq-100 streak. "The NASDAQ100 has now gone 106 trading sessions without a 2% down day. It’s longest stretch since it sold off in July last year – and its 5th equal longest since the end of the GFC."