Sunday, April 19, 2009

Tsunami into the abyss

Three charts, all with the same message.

First, Triangle chart on a Weekly Buy and well above a reversal Short. These are trend following charts, they are not predictive, they are in the now and only in the now:


Next up, S&P 500 Weekly analysis chart, same old, same old: In a sideways to upward tilt in a Wave 4 consolidation before next leg down. Each successive week has this chart closer and closer to its breakdown as is best evidenced by the False Bar Stochastic reaching overbought and reversal levels.

Directly underneath this Weekly S&P is the Weekly VIX. Take special notice of each and every time the VIX Stochastic reached oversold levels, as it is now. Take a ruler or any straight measuring device and connect the dots, only in this case, not dots, connect oversold areas on the VIX to major TOPS in the S&P:




Finally and especially for all the new readers to this blog, the Weekly S&P analysis is my big picture view of the equity markets. That view is of a multi-year bear market that on occasion, as is now, will pause, rally, consolidate, refresh itself and then dive lower. I would like to catch those turn-downs much more then I care to exploit the rally phases. Although I do utilize models that trend follow and accordingly do follow prices no matter what direction they are going (currently up), the big guns are set on those lucrative, juicy declines.

The Weekly charts are my GPS, pointing in the direction of the true trend that will assert itself in a big way when and only when the market decides the time is right. The next big decline will start off as a simple short term reversal in trend. That's why every short term Sell is important, because one of these days, it will be THE one we are looking for. By taking every short term Sell signal as it appears, there will a pretty damn good chance of being Short when the next tsunami into the abyss occurs.

Question: What if you are wrong, Allan, and the market is in a major Bull Trend toward new all time highs?



Answer: The best, most profitable parts of bull markets come in the middle and end (remember 1995-1999?), so I'll be late to that party, but will enjoy its fruits, eventually. My charts are dynamic, if they pick up on the bull market thesis, I will become just as adamant on the long side as I am on the short side now.


BUT THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED, IN FACT IF ANYTHING, THESE CHARTS ARE CONFIRMING THE BEARISH CASE WITH EACH PASSING WEEK.


A

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why don't we ask Pavel where the market is going? He got far more column inches than your analyses!

JK in DC

Anonymous said...

http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page67?oid=81945&sn=Detail

Gold and the impending market meltdown

Yet another analyst of global markets predicts the worst is yet to come for the global economy and a good future for gold investment as a result.
Author: Marc Davis
Posted: Thursday , 16 Apr 2009

VANCOUVER, CANADA, BNW Business Newswire -

Something wicked this way comes! So, be afraid. Be very afraid. (Unless you're a gold bug).

The recent rally in American and Canadian equity markets is soon to give way to a gut-wrenching collapse that will push equities to shocking new lows, with gold prices reacting by rallying to new highs.

After having correctly anticipated the timing and extent of the March 9th to April 3rd market rally, this is the latest dire warning from Heiko Seibel, a leading German stock market strategist.

The Director of Research for Munich-based CM-Equity AG now believes that the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 Index will dramatically drop to an ultimate low of around 450 points in late June or in July. The odds favour him being proven right - that is if his talent for correctly anticipating market moves continues.

"Within a few weeks, we will see the stock lows of our lifetimes," he nonchalantly declares.

Indeed, he was right on the money when he told BNW Business Newswire on March 2nd that the S&P 500 Index was about to reverse a pronounced downward trend. He suggested at the time that it would rally to a high of not much more than 850 points during April before it begins an orderly retreat that soon turns into a panic-stricken rout.

The S&P 500 closed at 856.56 on April 9th - the culmination of a very impressive five-week gain of 26% over its March 09th low. However, this rebound cannot gloss over the fact that the bellwether index's had lost 58% of its value by the time it ended its slide in early March. And now the S&P 500 is likely destined to trade in an uninspiring sideways pattern for the balance of the month, Seibel suggests.

Seibel believes that a growing sense of economic optimism shared by many U.S. investors and the Obama Administration, alike, is completely misplaced. He suggests that the rally during March and early April (with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at 8,018 points on April 3rd after enjoying the best four-week run since 1933) is merely a false dawn.

Soon enough investors will be seriously rattled yet again - this time by a devastating after-shock to October's global financial earthquake. One that will see the S&P 500 Index nose-dive up to 40% before it hits rock bottom at around the 450 points level. This bleak scenario contrasts starkly to the S&P's heady high of over 1,550 points in October of 2007.

A proponent of quantitative analysis, Seibel says this pending nightmarish sell-off will cause plenty of already shell-shocked investors to relinquish their remaining equity holdings. However, investors in gold bullion and gold-backed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) will likely be spared the widespread misery, Seibel believes.

"When there is a total loss in confidence in the stock market, then gold will rally. Gold bullion is historically an inverse proxy to the stock market. So, it's only logical that this will happen," he says.

"We should see a culmination of massive price weakness in stocks within weeks, which will cause gold to reverse its current trend to establish new highs beyond $1,000 early in the third quarter of this year - maybe even testing the $1,200 mark," he adds.

Interestingly, gold equities will not be immune to the market meltdown because investors will engage in "panic selling," to preserve whatever capital they have left, he predicts.

Meanwhile, the catalyst to the stock market's final capitulation during the coming months will be a combination of the collapse of more landmark U.S. companies, a renewed banking crisis, and other forms of "major economic upheaval," Seibel explains.

However, it is always darkest before dawn. And Seibel reasons that a gradual rebound in equities will finally assert itself during the last quarter of 2009 in anticipation of a spring economic revitalization. One that is already being germinated by massive government-backed infusions of money into the U.S. economy.

"History shows that economic recoveries typically get underway about six to nine months after the markets hit their ultimate lows. So a spring economic recovery appears very probable," he says.

"And gold stocks will lead the way during the market recovery as they're already ridiculously cheap and will get cheaper. But as gold prices begin to push higher, then gold producing companies will become attractive because they will offer investors leveraged exposure to these rising prices," he adds.

Published courtesy of B NW Business Newswire - http://www.bnwnewswire.com

Unknown said...

"The Weekly charts are my GPS, pointing in the direction of the true trend that will assert itself in a big way when and only when the market decides the time is right."

Re: GPS Analogy....

Allan,

Weekly or Monthly as a GPS...just wondering if this might have been a typo.

Thanks,
-Mike

Wayne said...

Read this:

http://turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com/2009/04/leaked-bank-stress-test-reults.html

To quote an old Animal Planet bloke: "CRIKEY!!"

Wayne

A said...

Of the top nineteen (19) banks in the nation, sixteen (16) are already technically insolvent.This is the sort of news that will either follow or come out contemporaneous with the next leg down. Are we there yet? My trend models flipped SHORT pre-market and remain short. All new SELLS have the potential, that's POTENTIAL, to be a prelude to a serious market disaster.