May 26, 2014 weekly outlook

The market continues to trade in a narrow channel and set marginal new highs on at least some of the indexes.  Doesn't inspire confidence that it is a market headed up to any large degree.  On the other hand, doesn't seem to want to correct much.  So far "the sell in May" part of "sell in May, and go away" seems to be OK as it could have gotten you out at high levels.  Only time will tell (June-July) if the "go away" part works out.

We will see a "new"  moon this coming week, which may mean, time for a pull back this week.  Here is a visual:

And here are the short cycles (good to trade in a sideways trending market):

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May 19, 2014 weekly outlook

The rule is "sell in May and go away".  Many interpret this as meaning a down month in May.  On the other hand "sell in May" implies a high in May (we want to sell at highs don't we?).  And "go away" says stay out of the market for a while (say June and July).  That approach seems to have worked recently I believe.  Here is a short term visual:

The short term trend line has been broken and a close below it.  Currently the 50 day MA is being tested again.  If that is broken and closed below, then the market should test the medium term trend line around 1860.  A break (and close below) of that should lead to a test of the February low...

Trying to buy back the R2K inverse shares I sold last week by Mon/Tue.  Hoping to get trading shares around $17.20.  We will see Mon/Tue.

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Update: shorter term trades (cycles):

3.5 day and 7 day trading cycles.....  Limit order to buy in at 17.20 (if order hits I expect to trade out for 1.5% gain in 2 days or less). This is shorter term than my normal trade (but market is boring me).

Update - May 20 close:  Market played out as projected (chart green line).  Missed low yesterday by 1 cent for trading entry.  Missed a good part of run up this AM, finally pulled the trigger on RWM pullback around 11 AM at 17.41 and sold around 3 PM (see comment) as I said we should see a pullback last hour.  Gain around 1 % after fees.  Market should be up for almost 2 days (and RWM down)...  So one could play IWM (opposite RWM) for a short term trade.

Here is an updated visual:

Update May 22:  RWM continues to follow projected path.  Should bottom around 3 PM Thursday May 22.

Update May 23: RWM bottomed around 3  PM Thursday as projected.  If this is the bottom for 3.5 and 7 days RWM should be up Friday and into Tuesday afternoon.  Since RWM is an inverse that means the major indices should be down Friday and into Tuesday.

May 12, 2014 weekly outlook

Sell in May....  Looks like we should set a nice bottom around the end of May.  In the meantime moves down of around 2% per week the next 2 weeks should not surprise giving us a low in the area of the early Feb low (1800-1815  - maybe a lower low).

The envelopes are still on a "Sell" signal.

GL traders.  This past week I traded out of part of my RWM and bought those shares back at the close on Friday.  Not a huge profit - about 1.7% on shares traded.  We'll see how well the new purchases do.

May 5, 2014 weekly outlook

Last week continued to show some residual strength.  The Dow set new highs and most of the major averages were up around 1% for the week.  The market shows little evidence it is going up a lot or down a lot near term.  That is how tops are made, they bore investors into inaction.

Still our envelope analysis is on a sell signal from just over a week ago, so the market should continue sideways with a downside bias this week.  The one month cycle is up for the next 7 or so trading days.  The 2 month and 4 month cycles are down into the end of May.  The 8 month cycle is up and tops near the end of May (as a mid-cycle slump develops as 3 shorter cycles bottom),

In summary - minor weakness next week.  Here is a visual: 

GL traders.  I suppose a full on War in Ukraine could cause additional downside movement.  For now (month of May) I hold RWM.

Apr 28, 2014 weekly outlook

Expected the market to show strength in the month of April.  While we saw some marginal new highs, it could hardly be called a strong market.  As of Friday's close SnP500 was less than 1% lower since March 31.  The NAZ showed more downside in April. 

This week should show some more weakness as we head into May.  I doubt the market will be positive for the month of April and should start May on a weak note.  The 8 month cycle should top in May which could spell a sluggish summer for the Market.

My best guess is May should be down, maybe a bit of a bounce in June and down in the Jul-Aug time frame.  This market has the same feel to it as late 2007 and 2008.  If true then I would expect a serious pullback to start by Oct of 2014 (and last over a year like 2008  into early 2009).

In review - we end April and start May on a weak note, here is a visual:

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Week of Apr 21, 2014 outlook

Last week was "up" overall.  Market started to lose "mo" by Thursday and closed mixed.  I had projected lost "mo" by Wednesday and some weakness last 2 days of the week.  I guess the question is - will we see new highs on SnP500?  I see lots of comments regarding 2000 on SnP500.  I suppose that could happen, but right now the high I see from my projections is 1905-1910 if we get a new high (I believe 2000 is aggressive given the mixed earnings/revenues being reported).

I believe we could see some downside next week. The cycles are mixed with the longer cycle up and the shortest cycle down the first part of the week and up later in the week.  The other 2 cycles are down.  Overall, I believe the cycles setup favors a down week (1-2 %).

Here is a visual:

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Jubilee (50 yr cycle), Kitchin cycle (42 mth/3.5 yr), Blood moons and how it fits

Many of you may have come across David Knox Barker's work on Jubilee (50 year biblical cycle of debt forgiveness).  Seems the first Jubilee in AD was probably 15AD (The  year Jesus spent in the wilderness).  So 2015 would be the 40th Jubilee in the AD.  Of interest is that in 32-33AD was a Tetrad of blood moons during the crucifixion period.

So, today  we are looking at a Tetrad  (four) Blood moons in 2014-15.  2015 marks a Jubilee year, a Sabbath Cycle end (7 years) and the end of a Kitchin Cycle (3.5 years or 42 months).  Everything comes together in September of 2015!!!

Here is a time line of the Blood Moons 2014-15:

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Week of Apr 14, 2014 outlook

With Good Friday being April 18 the market is open 4 days this week.  Basically this past week I was right in concluding the 4 month cycle was dominant and SnP500 was down just under 3%.  R2K is now down almost 8% for the year (so keep your eye on this as it and the NAZ led up and now may be leading down.

The 2 month cycle should top (providing some upside push first 2 days), The four month and one month cycles are down, while the eight month cycle is up.  So we may get an attempt to rally Mon-Tue, but I expect it to be muted and down Wed-Thur providing us another down week (4 month  cycle still dominant).

Don't forget we also have a full moon Monday Apr 15 (often turns at new/full moons) may indicate a turn up.

 

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Is it a FIB?

long term:

short term:

http://www.safehaven.com/article/33403/fib-or-fact

How about since the SnP500 - 666 bottom in 2009?

Actually looks like a top is due???

week of Apr 7, 2014 outlook

The 3.75-4 month cycle is down and has tended to be the dominant cycle.  So even though the 7.5-8 month, 2 month, 1 month cycles are up expect sideways movement with periods of downside mixed with pops.  Mixed earnings results could definitely give us a choppy market.  I do not expect huge moves up or down yet....

As I mentioned last week continue to watch R2K and NAZ as the key to whether the market has topped.  Notice we get small breaks up on SnP 500 but no real break out.

Here is a visual:

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