Monthly Archives: March 2016

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SHORT TERM TOP COMING WITH EMPLOYMENT REPORT?

SHORT TERM TOP

If there is ever going to be a spot for a short term top in this stock market, in this case a daily cycle top, tomorrow’s employment report should be it.

Clearly, the market has been discounting a good number, and for the most part the jobs numbers have been coming in bullish for some time, so I’m not expecting that to change.

To a novice investor it probably doesn’t seem logical for the market to sell off on a good number, but that’s not how the market works. If the market has already rallied ahead of the number then the smart money will sell into an initial gap up open and that will start a profit taking event – thereby creating a short term top.

And really, that is how moves into a daily cycle lows are begun. Daily cycle tops and their ensuing correction are profit taking events. A correction that begins on a good economic number doesn’t mean the market doesn’t believe the number. It just means that smart money has already positioned for the good number of weeks in advance and then use the emotional buying panic as an opportunity to lock in their profits. This leaves Joe Sixpack holding the bag as he has once again bought at the top.

Then, once the correction has run its course and the average retail trader finally panics out of his positions at the bottom, smart money will buy back and the process will repeat. 🙂

Again, this is how retail traders buy high and sell low. Whereas professionals sell high and buy low.

If we still do not get a profit taking event after tomorrow then we’ll have to seriously consider that a runaway move is in progress.

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HIGHER HIGHS COMING: OIL MOVING INTO A CORRECTIVE LOW

higher highs coming

I think I can say with a good bit of confidence that oil has begun moving down into its daily cycle low, and that higher highs are coming.

I would think at least a 38% retracement would be a minimum target, maybe deeper. This is the time where the fundalmentalists and technical traders will start calling for new lows.

That’s not what is going to happen. Once the correction has run its course, oil will turn and make another leg up. It will break through the 200 DMA. Higher highs coming.

Only cycles analysis can warn you of this kind of fakeout move. The technicians and fundamentalists will get it wrong again, so be ready to buy energy again soon.

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THE DOW’S BEAR MARKET TREND LINE IS ABOUT TO BREAK

bear market trend line

The Dow is going to break its bear market trend line today. This has significant implications for the future direction of the stock market indexes.

Barring a complete reversal in the futures before the open, the Dow is going to follow the mid-caps and the transports by breaking its 7-year cycle trend line confirming that the 7 YCL has been struck. The perma trolls got it wrong again. They have become the perfect contrary indicator. Just do the opposite and get rich 🙂

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Runaway Market Closer to Being Confirmed

runaway market

While all the technical traders have been busy assuring me I’m wrong and the stock market is about to crash, we see again today that technicals are useless as the market comes out of the 7-year cycle low. A runaway market is close to being confirmed.

Quit wasting your time following these people. The perma bear deflationists will just continue to get it wrong over and over. I warned that there was a possibility a runaway market could begin and if the S&P breaks the intermediate trend line the odds are going to go up significantly that outcome is in progress.

I continue to like the rounded bottom forming on biotech. Once the speculative driver of this bull gets in gear the rest of the market will really start to move higher.

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QE STRETCHED THE MARKETS TOO FAR ABOVE THE 200 WMA

QE stretched

Just as I predicted the Nasdaq generated a marginal breakout above the 2000 high and then proceeded to correct. At the top QE stretched the market way too far above the mean (200 week moving average). This had to be resolved either with a lengthy sideways consolidation to let the average catch up to price, or a correction. We got a bit of both. Now the market is set up for the next, and I suspect last leg of this bull market as central banks again make a massive monetary mistake and create the next series of bubbles.

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BEAR MARKETS ARE DONE – MONTHLY CHARTS CONFIRMING

transports

The transports are leading the market out of the 7 year cycle low.

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The NYA has completed a monthly swing.

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The oil market has also generated a monthly swing very late in its 3 year cycle. The 3 year cycle is just too stretched at this point for there to be another lower low.

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Like I’ve been saying for a long time: It’s time for everything to rise together. Well almost everything.

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The monthly dollar chart is exhibiting a possible double top. Price is not expected to bottom until mid 2017.

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COT REPORTS for GOLD and STOCKS

While I’ve done my best to try and dissuade people from selling short, there are always going to be plenty of traders that insist on doing things the hard way. If you are determined to make it as hard as possible to turn a profit then at least have the patience to wait until you have the odds as far in your favor as possible. I would argue that the COT reports are your single best tool to time short entries.

During gold’s baby bull rally I saw trader after trade try to be a hero and pick a top. Invariably every one of them ended up like a bug on a windshield. Why? Because they tried to sell short too soon. Over and over I cautioned that almost no intermediate cycle in gold ever tops until the total commercial short position rises above 300,000 contracts. If traders had paid attention to that one simple rule they could have saved themselves a lot of pain.

Just as I warned, gold kept ramping higher and it wasn’t until three weeks ago that the COT reports for commercial short position reached the 300,000 contract level.

COT Reports - Gold

I still maintain that selling short is a very difficult way to make money. But if you just can’t resist flying into the fire at least wait till the COT reports reach levels in your favor. Now that the commercial short position has moved to 327,000 contracts it is safer to short gold. Personally I just use the COT reports to tell me when to take profits, I have no interest in trying to short. Even if gold is ready to drop into an intermediate cycle low I suspect the nature of the market has now changed and it’s going to be a very erratic move that will likely chew up bulls and bears alike. By that I mean it could take 5-7 weeks to complete the ICL and gold may only drop 50-70 points during that period.

Why fight with a market for such small percentage gains?

Now I’m seeing the same impatience when it comes to shorting the stock market. And you can use the same tool here to give you an edge and prevent losses by being too early to the party.

At intermediate tops the combined COT index futures almost always reach single digits, or even slightly negative levels. Until they do the odds are that early shorts will lose money just like the early shorts in gold who failed to heed my warning. Pay careful attention to what these COT reports are telling us.

As you can see in this week’s stock market COT report below, the commercials still have a long way to go before the odds swing in favor of shorting.

COT Reports - Stocks

Folks it’s not usually a good idea to stand in front of this train. Yes you may be able to day trade the short side and make some money, but if you are trying to pick an intermediate top it’s almost certainly too soon.

I can’t stop the moths from flying to the flame, but if you will heed this one simple warning the odds of you getting burnt will decrease significantly.

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THERE IS POTENTIAL THAT STOCKS COULD BE STARTING A RUNAWAY MOVE

runaway move

runaway move

While runaway moves are pretty rare, and the odds are not high one is beginning, we do have the conditions where one could develop. This makes my warnings to not sell short or buy any of the VIX vehicles pertinent.

We have a market that is coming out of a 7 year cycle low. We have global QE on a massive scale. We have interest rates at 0 or negative all over the world. We have the Fed clearly backing down on their threat to raise rates. There is 0 chance of a recession. And the most important factor: we have a huge pool of traders who believe we’ve started a bear market, so there is a gigantic amount of fuel to drive a runaway move as these traders are forced to cover and chase.

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