The Significance of Two years Ending in ‘6’
The rally off the March 2009 lows has been one of the strongest moves in history. Only the moves off the 1921, 1932, 1942 and 1982 lows have been comparable. Having said that, the rallies from the 1932 and 1942…...
Lower and then Higher (Significantly)
I started the year with a very bullish bias and believed the presence of robust analytics supported such a disposition. However, those analytics were fairly binomial with respect to the timing of their expected bullish outcome – they necessitated a…...
Market’s Respect for Trend Has But Seven Historical Precedents
As of last week the Wilshire 5K closed above its 30 week MA for the 70th consecutive week dating back to 11/25/2012. That’s an incredible feat of “trending”, if ever there was an obvious representation of what unbridled bull market…...
Analog Update
I’m just going to present analogs first and then following those visuals try to tie it all together into some type of assessment of what they all mean. 1) Dow – 4 Yr RoC > 100% – All – Weekly…...
Taking the Blinders Off
I think this game we play, the one where we attempt to divine the future direction of financial markets, is the toughest one that one can play professionally. By its very nature it renders success impossible, at least if perfection…...
Adding a Wrinkle to the Nikkei
On the site we’ve repeatedly discussed the Nikkei’s massive rally from fall 2012 to May 2013 which, over the course of ~six months, totaled ~85% and how among other major asset classes we can find only two other examples of…...
Analog Update
At this point, the most helpful thing we can probably do is turn to our set of analogs to help us visually understand the world. A) 4th-5h Consecutive Annual Gain B) 4 Yr RoC > 100% for First time in…...
Nikkei’s Path Since Initial May 2013 Peak On Track
I continue to believe the Nikkei is likely in a new secular bull and I’ve backed this view with loads of work on this site dating back to 2012 as can be found in the “Nikkei” category. Our favored analogs…...
Analog Update
Lots of market weakness this week. Crash calls abound and everybody and their brother predicted this 200 bps sell-off last week, don’t ya know? My view on 2014 finally catalyzed recently, having become “unequivocally” bullish the other week. Apparently I…...
Count the Similarities
As we have highlighted innumerable times on this site over the past six months in the “cycles” category, the similarities b/t the current cycle and where we are in that cycle are incredibly similar to the late 20s and mid…...