David Santschi

One reason for the flood of money into bitcoin? Traders are attracted to the volatility, and that’s been in short supply.

Investors have been pouring money into bond funds this year while losing interest in bank products.

Bond fund inflows running near record pace this year, while savings account inflows drop to nine-year low.

Fund flows are sending encouraging short-term signals, says TrimTabs CEO David Santschi, though the quarterly volume of corporate buybacks, highly correlated with the S&P 500, has dropped to the lowest level in eight...

In July, buybacks fell to $17.3 billion. Daily buyback frequency and volume have dropped to 2009 levels.

European equity ETF inflows abruptly slowed to less than 1 percent of assets in the wake of ECB head Mario Draghi’s hint at a reduction in stimulus. Buying interest has shifted to emerging-market equities.

As equity markets continue setting new highs, corporate insiders sold off $9.6 billion worth of stock in May, the highest level of insider selling in six years.

Investors are pivoting away from U.S. and toward global equity funds, which took in $26.7 billion in May. European equity inflows are near a two-year high.