Nobody wants insurance

Put options are out of fashion, as shown by the 5-day average equity put:call ratio, which is again one standard deviation below its mean. Except for two brief touches, it has now been well under the mean for six months. Since this is a mean-reverting statistic, it is overdue for an excursion into the upper end of the range:

Source: indexindicators.com

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