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.

GL traders.

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.