Stock-Market-Observations

WEEKLY UPDATE FOLLOWS THE BREAK

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• Stock Market Trends & Observations

CHARTS

• MY CHART LINK (updated constantly)

• I’m now getting in excess of 15,000 hits per month on the above chart link.

• This link is my personally used chart list and it has everything I need.  If you have a suggestion for the charts, please let me know.
• I usually draw my trend lines and wave counts on a daily basis (sometimes more often).
• These charts are the roadmap to your tactics.

• Page 1 – Indexes With 1 Minute Bars
• Page 2 – Indexes With 5 Minute Bars
• Page 3 – Indexes With 15  Minute Bars
• Page 4 – Indexes With 30 Minute Bars
• Page 5 – Indexes With 60 Minute Bars
• Page 6 – Indexes With Daily Bars (candlesticks – last 13 months)
• Page 7 – Indexes With Daily Bars (since November 2008)
• Page 8 – Indexes With Weekly Bars
• Page 9 – Indexes With Monthly Bars

• Pages 10 through 13 are indicators.  The indicators are used to simply look for some type of leading action before a turn or confirming action of the wave count.  Page 10 is a look everyday page.  The other indicator pages are less frequently visited.
• Page 14 through 26 are sector ETFs.  They represent most of the active sector ETFs and are always a good bet when looking for something that is breaking in a new direction.
• Page 27 through 39 are growth stocks.  These are stocks that have risen in price since 1990.  One qualification is that they must not be severely damaged in a bear market so they can’t rise to significant new highs in the following bull market.
• The growth stocks show daily market action for the last 3 years and weekly prices since 1990.  This gives a good perspective of how they have behaved in the immediate past (daily charts) and how they behaved during good and bad times (weekly charts).

WAVE COUNTS SIMPLIFIED

• My wave counts are not Elliott Wave!  It’s different, simple and functions without a maze of exclusions.

• There are 3 peaks to a completed wave count. A reversal of trend takes place after a completed wave count.   Often times it’s as simple as counting 3 bumps on a chart . . . Other times, not so easy.
• In a downtrend the same rules apply except you are counting 3 valleys instead of 3 peaks.
• Each step must stay confined to a channel.  Laying a pen or pencil on the chart will help you visualize the channel.
• As the trend progresses, all of the steps that make up the overall current trend will also be confined to a larger channel.
• When the market breaks a channel (regardless of the perceived wave count), the current step has been terminated.  (Make sure your channel was correct before calling a termination).
  
• A single wave may sub-divide into another 3 waves.  I will call this an extension.  When this happens (1) the trend is still intact, (2) the channel has widened and (3) instead of a total of 3 steps, there will be 5 steps.  (Seeing an example in the charts will help you understand this concept.)
• Sometimes I will use the terms “step” and “wave” interchangeably, but usually a “wave” is considered to be larger than a step.

• Reading the glossary helps in the understanding of this blog.
• Glossary Link

ABBREVIATIONS

• DJI = Dow Jones Industrials
• DJT = Dow Jones Transportations
• SPX = SP 500
• ES = SP 500 Futures
• COMPQ = Nasdaq Composite Index
• TSX = Toronto Stock Exchange (Canadian blue chips)
• SOX = Semiconductors
• XLY = Consumer

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WEEKLY UPDATE

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• Short Term
  
• Oct 4, 2011 To Present
• Breakout To Small Step 2 Underway (Lg Cap Breakout Unconfirmed)
  

SHORT TERM COMMENTS

10-22-11 SHORT TERM

It appears that the large caps have broken out into step 2 up, after a high level consolidation.  The problem is that other indexes have failed to confirm this move up.  We’ll have to wait and see what happens early next week.  In the early days of a new uptrend, everyone marches upward and usually the NASDAQ is out front.  Presently the NASDAQ is lagging the large caps.  If the trend is valid this should be corrected quickly, otherwise an upside failure could be possible.

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• Intermediate Term
• 3 Steps Down Appears Complete
  
• February 2011 To October 4, 2011
  
• Step 1 Up Underway 

10-22-11 INTERMEDIATE TERM

10-22-11 INTERMEDIATE TERM 2

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• Long Term
• Uptrend
• Mar 2009 To Present
  
• Step 2 Up (of 3) Completed

• From the bottom in  March 2009
• Large step one up ended in May 2010
• Large step two up ended in May 2011.
• Large step three up will begin when the decline beginning in February/May is finished.
• The correction following large step two up is always larger than the step one correction and to date that has been true.

10-22-11 LONG TERM

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• Very Long Term
• Downtrend
• Jan 2000 To Present
  
•  Step 2 Down (of 3) Completed

10-22-11 VERY LONG TERM

VERY LONG TERM COMMENTS

We have 3 possibilities for the future.

• We have entered a very wide swinging market (megaphone formation) similar to that of 1966 to 1974. During that era we had three bear markets with two intervening bull market rallies.  Each bear market had a lower low than the previous bear.  The intervening bull market rallies saw new all time highs before the next bear market began.
• We also have formed a huge head and shoulders formation since 1998.  If this formation is valid, the downside measurement calls for a bottom around Dow Jones Industrials 1,000.
• We began a very long term bull market that began in March 2009.  Each subsequent min-bear markets will result in higher lows than the prior major low.

Since 2000 we have had two bear markets, 2000 to 2003 and 2007 to 2009. Like 1966 to 1974, the recovery from the first  bear market saw a new all time high (2007 peak). It’s possible that we may experience another all time high during the present recovery period.  This would support the megaphone formation.  A failure to make new highs would support the head and shoulders argument.  In both formations the conclusion of the present recovery would call for a third and final bear market. An estimated time for the conclusion of the final bear market is approximately 2018.

The lesser downside target of both formations is the megaphone formation as it likely calls for a bottom 1,000 to 2,000 points below the 2009 low, which would be around Dow 5,000.

In the head and shoulders formation the measurement calls for a bottom around Dow Jones Industrials 1,000.  This is almost an unimaginable event as I try to visualize the fundamentals involved.  If this did happen, everything that could go wrong would have to go wrong.  The reasons range from the absurd to the absurd.  This scenario is so dark that it doesn’t seem possible but nevertheless, the head and shoulders formation is there and will be waiting until we pierce the all-time highs of October 2007.

Remember these are simply possible scenarios and are not embedded in fact.  Whatever the outcome, it never hurts to be a little cautious with some of your money.  But in the worst case scenario, everything that we take for granted as being safe . . . .  would not be safe.  This is something to never forget in the event things go very badly.

Hopefully we will never have to think about worst case scenarios other than to have a good laugh at them presently.

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REAL ESTATE

Here is a PDF report on the cyclic nature of real estate prices.  Anyone interested in cycles and real estate should find it of interest.

• Real Estate Cycles

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EDSON GOULD

• Edson Gould, Premier Stock Market Strategist – I have posted some of his ideas and writing on this blog.  He had a profound influence on the development of my techniques and proprietary indicators.  I will post more of his writing at a later date.  After 40 years I still have many of the publications from his advisory service, “Findings & Forecasts”.
  

• Edson Gould Link

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TRANSACTION SIGNALS

• ALL ACTIONABLE SIGNALS (buy or sell) ARE ONLY FOR SHORT TERM TIME FRAMES.  These signals are not designed for intermediate or long term time frames BUT . . . . .

• After a short term buy signal, long term tax status  can be achieved by a continuation of the upward trend, which causes short term actions to morph into long term holdings. 
  

• See more details in the glossary under “Taxes, Futures Contracts” and “Money Management”.

• Glossary Link

TRANSACTION RECORD

• In this blog a warning of an impending bottom (or top) is often issued well in advance of the formal buy or sell date.  This allows thoughtful consideration prior to a formal action signal.  To get a sense of how this works, you should read a few days prior to a formal buy/sell signal.  I often buy/sell in my personal account based on the early warnings.
• The transaction record near stock market bottoms will show that I am very skittish and usually remain so until the new direction is well underway.

• SELL – SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
  
• BUY – AUGUST 30, 2011
• SELL – AUGUST 30, 2011 – Stopped out, re-bought quickly
  
• BUY – AUGUST 29, 2011
• SELL – AUGUST 25, 2011
• BUY – AUGUST 23, 2011
• SELL – AUGUST 1, 2011
• BUY – JUNE 23, 2011

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MISCELANEOUS

• There are useful items throughout this blog.  For instance, the “Wall Street Quotes” can be very instructive.  So make sure and look all through the blog.

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