A Massive Chart Dump - P2 Analysis Wrap-Up

by Chart School - August 30th, 2009 9:40 pm

A Massive Chart Dump - P2 Analysis Wrap-Up

Courtesy of Binve at Market Thoughts and Analysis

…. And by "Chart Dump", I don’t mean all these charts belong in the toilet

So like I said on Friday, I wish Primary 2 was done, I *want* Primary 2 to be done. I just don’t think it is done. But I do think it is very close to being done, next week looks very likely for the top.

But the whole point of this post is to look at a whole host of indices, sectors, asset classes, and sentiment indicators to show that there are some very substantial divergences taking place. Some of the "leader indices" show that they have already potentially topped (are not making higher highs with the broader markets). The Dollar and the VIX may have already bottomed. Volume is drying up (or at least substantially declining) in most of the indicies. In short a lot of the signs that we expect to see with Primary Wave 2 have occurred, and things are more or less "on track" for a large trend change in equities.

The other reason for this massive update this weekend is that our first born child is due any day now, and my blogging and chart updates will drop off dramatically next month. binve’s life is about to get a lot more interesting.

This post contains a lot of charts that I show often, but every chart is completely updated with new annotations and analysis. I believe it is a useful post and tells the picture of the markets from a macro view. Enjoy!

The Primary Wave 2 Checklist

There are several signals that we should see that help to let us know we are at the end of Primary Wave 2. There are some characteristics that Elliott (and then Frost and Prechter later) put forth that would describe some of the technical, fundamental and sentiment aspects of Wave 2. Here are some of those (modified to be bullish, as this Wave 2 is bullish):

From EWP: “Second Waves often retrace so much of Wave one that most of the losses endured are gained back by the time it ends. At this point investors are thoroughly convinced that the bull market is here to stay. Second waves typically end on very low volume and volatility.”

Additionally, bullishness sentiment returns, and is often as high as it was at the peak, despite the technical long term…

Tags: asian markets, chart analysis, Dollar, Elliott Waves, Equities, low volume, Primary Wave 2, SPX, VIX

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After the bell, Update

by Chart School - August 26th, 2009 12:02 am

After the bell, Update

Courtesy of Michael Eckert at EW trends and charts

Welcome to my nightmare, this is one of the most confusing one day charts I have looked at in quite a while. From afar, the larger counts look like a 4th wave, but the micro count is a REAL mess, almost like an on going "B", or "X" wave, the triangle I have labeled as a-b-c-d-e, breaks the first rule, wave "A", is a five count, we need a 3-3-3-3-3 count for the triangle to be valid.

A simple zig-zag is still possible, but wave "C" needs to be the largest for that count to work.

The other possibility is that we have had a top put in, I have seen numerous counts in the last 24 hours that have a five wave count completed, the micro-counts in them might be off, but at this point I am keeping that option on the table until the impulse count from 1037.63 is invalidated.

One other option, which I had a chart up of yesterday on my public list, is this whole rally counting out as an a-b-c-x-a-b-c, making wave b of B, of P2, an expanding triangle with the a of B ending at 979. This could really surprise the bears if we start heading down to make new lows, then quickly reverse in wave "C" up.

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See Michael’s longer term chart (below) for the bigger picture:

Michael:  P stands for primary wave.  As soon as P2 ends, we will be in P3, down. P2 is the wave from 666 to the present, P1 was the wave from late ‘07, till this year when it finished at 666.  Ilene, I am very-very bearish, as soon as this rally is over we will be testing the lows of the year, and even quite possibily breaking them, wave 3’s are the mother of all waves, very violent and swift.

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Social Safety Nets Mask Deflationary Depression

by ilene - August 12th, 2009 7:43 pm

Social Safety Nets Mask Deflationary Depression

Courtesy of Mish

In a recent video Robert Prechter says the Dollar’s Hit a "Major Bottom" and that a deflationary depression is coming.

According to Prechter, the Elliott Wave pattern in the US dollar confirms we recently hit the fifth wave down. Next stop is up. He also notes that sentiment has reached an extreme:

"The Dollar Sentiment Index for the Dollar Index reports just 3% bulls among traders, an extreme level only five times in the past 20 years, usually near an important low," Prechter wrote on Aug. 5. "The last time we saw readings like this was March-July 2008, just before the dollar soared." In other words, the "short the dollar" trade is overly crowded.

I mentioned the wave pattern on July 31 in Ewave Count on the US Dollar Suggests Move Up is Coming.

Here is an updated chart.

US$ Weekly Chart

click on chart for sharper image

Note that bearish sentiment on the dollar is at an all time high even though the dollar index is substantially higher than it was in April and July of 2008. That’s bullish for the dollar.

I still show two "?" on the chart because technically wave 5’s can extend. However, fundamentally and technically I do not expect expect it to extend, at least by much.

Social Safety Nets Mask Deflationary Depression

Prechter is looking for a "major economic depression". I think it is clear we are already in one.

The only reason it is not more readily visible is people are living in foreclosed houses unable or unwilling to pay their mortgage, one in nine living in the US is on food stamps, and unemployment insurance has been extended twice. Congress is now debating extending it a third time.

If Congress does not act 500,000 Will Exhaust Unemployment Benefits by September, 1.5 Million by Year-end.

Although the official unememployment rate is a mere 9.5% alternative measures show it is over 16%. Moreover, an unprecedented 4.4 million workers have been unemployed and looking for work for 26 weeks or longer. Please see Jobs Contract 19th Straight Month and US Payrolls Less Than Meets The Eye for details about jobs.

In simple terms, more social safety nets are in place now than during the great depression.

Steepest Credit Contraction in Over Five Decades

Given that deflation is a net contraction of money and credit one might ask for proof that such a phenomena is occurring. Dave Rosenberg put together a series of 5 stunning charts…

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ROBERT PRECHTER: NEW LOWS ARE COMING

by ilene - August 11th, 2009 9:50 pm

ROBERT PRECHTER: NEW LOWS ARE COMING

Courtesy of The Pragmatic Capitalist

Tags: bear market, Economy, Elliott Waves, Robert Prechter, Stock Market

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Does Gold Always Go Up in Recessions and Depressions?

by ilene - June 4th, 2009 4:31 pm

The following article is adapted from a brand-new eBook on gold and silver published by Robert Prechter, founder and CEO of the technical analysis and research firm Elliott Wave International. For the rest of this revealing 40-page eBook, download it for free here.

Does Gold Always Go Up in Recessions and Depressions?

By Robert Prechter, CMT

I have often read, “Gold always goes up in recessions and depressions.” Is it true? Should you own gold because you think the economy is tanking? Whenever we hear some claim like this, we always do the same thing: we look at the data.

The first thing to point out is that gold did not make a nickel of U.S. money for anyone in any of the recessions and depressions from 1792, when the gold-based dollar was adopted, through 1969, a period of 177 years. Well, to be precise, there was a change in the valuation in 1900, when Congress changed the dollar’s value from 24.75 grains of gold, the amount established in 1792, to 23.22 grains, a devaluation of just six percent total over 108 years. The government did raise the fixed price from $20.67/oz. to $35/oz. in 1934, but that action occurred during an economic expansion, not during the Depression. In 1968, gold finally began trading away from the government’s fixed price. Even then, it slipped to a lower price of $34.95 on January 16 and 19, 1970. So the idea that gold always goes up in recessions and depressions is already shown to be wrong. It did not go up in terms of dollars in any of the (estimated) 35 recessions or three depressions during that period.

What almost always does happen during economic contractions is that the value of whatever people use as money goes up as prices for goods and services fall. When gold is used as money, its value in terms of goods and services goes up. But gold can’t go up in dollar terms when gold and dollars are equated. So no one “makes money” holding gold under these conditions. It is a fine point: What tends to go up relative to goods and services during economic contractions is money, and when gold is officially money, that’s how it behaves. What we want to know is how gold behaves in recessions and depressions when it is not officially accepted as money.

Many gold bugs say that because gold was a good investment during…

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An almost perfect storm

by ilene - May 24th, 2009 4:56 pm

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Here’s another one by Allan. Allan’s getting ready to pull the trigger on his long awaited Sell signal.

An almost perfect storm

Weekly SPX
 

The bars remain blue going into next week. But the False Bar Stochastic, channels and wave count are all warning that the end of a multi-month corrective Wave 4 is upon us. Still unconfirmed, but running out of room and running on fumes.

Daily SPX

The Daily chart above flipped SHORT last week. The wave count and FBS are warning that another leg up is possible, maybe even probable. A recovery from last week’s decline would certainly suck in a lot bullish sentiment, just the psychology needed for the icing on that Weekly Wave 4 end, a culmination rally sucker-punching the bears.
 

240 minute SPX

Not all charts help the analysis, as is the case with the above 240 minute chart. But it does define our dilemma; Which way, which way?

30 minute SPX

So we drill down to a chart that does add tactical perspective. At first glance, this looks eerily close to the Weekly chart. But it’s a 30 minute SPX. The portrait here is of a definitive end to a Wave 4 correction and the first red bar of Wave 5 down. On the shortest tactical time frame we see what could be the beginning of a massive bearish formation that will infect all of the above charts and bring into the play a significant decline, or more accurately, the significant decline.

Bottom line is that the resumption of the Bear Market in a big, big way is upon us. If it hasn’t started yet, it will soon enough. Significant weakness next week will seal the deal. Absent that, another week, maybe two will be needed for an almost perfect set-up for an almost perfect storm.
 

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