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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
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low in sight.
See you in Intraday
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Dr. Stepan N. Stool
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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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