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From The Road (7/4/02) Hair Club For Men Rally- Here's a capsule summary of the indexes, with updated cycle summary charts. The stage managers played to a small, easily manipulated audience Friday, and made the most of it. Doc is not impressed by the shenanigans. 



Dow Inflatables

The Dow broke its downtrend channel. The 8-13 day cycle appears to be topping out a sideways up phase. The 4-5 week  cycle turned up. Doc will bet it's a swup. The 6-7 week cycle has just topped out, and the 10-13 cycle is bottoming. The 10-13 week cycle  projection remains 8700 on a closing basis, and the cycle low window is open over the next three weeks. The Dow should establish its low a few days to a week before the broad market.

Was Wednesday it? 

Sure looked like a few mutual funds taking advantage of a low volume environment, where it would be extremely easy to mark up prices. It doesn't pass the bad toupee test.


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Portfolio Sphincters Index (SPX) and Sentiment

The 17 day rate of change,  which represents the 6-7 week cycle, turned up. The superimposed 6-7 week cycle oscillator (red) suggests this is probably a swup which began a couple weeks ago, and will die an early death.  The 10-13 week cycle oscillator (navy) upticked, but not enough to be convincing. The final portion of the downleg, when the sharpest losses are usually seen, looked like it was under way, but now it looks like it is still ahead of us. The projected low ranges from 890 to 920.

The 29 day rate of change remains weak. This indicator should stabilize and turn up ahead of price when the 10-13 week cycle bottoms. 

The VIX  is now at 30.21, down from 33 on Wednesday. On the inverted scale chart, it is in the center of the Stool Band, playing the tuba. At a major low, extreme fear readings normally persist for several days. A major buy signal will not be generated until the index drops below the blue band and then reverses. The current action is consistent with a short cycle rally.

The blue channel lines are the extension of a linear regression channel from the February and May 2001 highs. 

The 6 month cycle oscillator and trading stoolicator are still drifting lower, confirming the downtrend. The short cycle oscillator downticked in spite of the market's rally Wednesday. The 10-13 week cycle oscillator also downticked and the trend remains down. The low is due anywhere from 4 to 19 days from now with a target of 890 to 930 on a closing basis. Depending on the degree of panic, the intraday low will be 50 to 75 points lower, which means a print of 800 can't be ruled out. I'm not ignoring what happened Friday. It just hasn't shown enough to be convincing that it was for real.

The rally was cut short just beyond the 50% regurgitation of the late June decline. There are two fibo reflux levels at 1000.

The Cycle Conditions tables include cycle phase and a wild guess as to number of periods to the next turn, in days for the shortest cycles, weeks (W) or months (M) for the longer ones. This is a fluid exercise, in other words, the projections are likely to be wrong, but they force us to be vigilant for key turning points, and frequently work well enough to prevent costly misreadings.

SPX Cycle Conditions as of 7/5/02

Cycle

Phase/PTT

Target

6 Month

Down/1-4W

890-930

10-13 Week

Down/3-18

915

6-7 Week

Top/0

990

20-25 Days

SWU/8-13

990

8,13 Day

Up/1-4

1000

PTT - Periods Till Turn
L-Low, H-High
SWD= Sideways Down Phase- Trading Range
SWU=Sideways Up
p: preliminary
Too Early: Too soon to project


Nasgap Charts

The 10-13 week cycle oscillator and the trading stoolicator upticked but are still in downtrends in spite of the rally. The short cycle oscillator upticked and continued trending weakly higher in a sideways up phase. An important intermediate low of 1275 is due in 4 to 19 trading days. As with the SPX, there's not enough evidence yet to support the idea that the low is in.

1453 is the 50% retracement level of the decline from late June. Likely stopping areas are here and 1470-80 zone, where there are multiple fibo regurgitation levels.

Nasdaq Cycle Conditions as of 7/5/02

Cycle

Phase/PTT

Target

6 Month

Down/1-4W

1075-1275

10-13 Week

Down/4-19

1275

6-7 Week

Top/0

1460

20-25 Days

Uncertain

??

8,13 Day

Up/1-4

1470

PTT - Periods Till Turn
L-Low, H-High
*SWD= Sideways Down Phase- Trading Range
  SWU=Sideways Up
  p: preliminary
Too Early: Too soon to project


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The sideways down phase in the 10-13 week cycle continues, with a retest of the June low in sight.

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Dr. Stepan N. Stool
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American Society of Shortsellers Endowment
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Explanation of Intraday Commentary-Build charts at http://www.livecharts.com.  For custom time bars insert a comma after symbol and number of minutes, e.g. compx,90. This will give you a bar chart of the Nas with 90 minutes per bar. The one day cycle is usually most clear with 8 minute bars and 26/18 stochastics. It varies from day to day. Sometimes 6 minutes works best. Experiment to find the best fit for your trading style, and the market's dominant frequency at the time.

The goal here is primarily to monitor the condition of the 8 and 13 day cycles. I typically use 90 minute bars with 26/18 stochastics for the 13 day cycle proxy on the indices during regular trading hours. Other cycles use 26/18 stochastics with the following:

8 days- 60 minute bars
5 days- 40 minute bars
3 days- 24 minute bars
2 days- 16 minute bars
1 day- 6, 7, or 8 minute bars

On the 24 hour futures charts, use a time per bar approximately 3 to 4 times the above number of minutes, to represent the cycles listed above.

ABBREVIATIONS:

cma: centered moving average
cmap: centered moving average projection
os or ozzie: oscillator
sto: stochastic
swup: sideways up phase
swdp: sideways down phase

 

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