Analog Update
This post is one giant analog dump. As it stands, I continue to see very little worth doing right now across financial markets. This suggests to me markets are in a place that rewards sitting and observing as the next…...
SPX Technical Update
When we were still communicating work via email, one of the earliest (first?) charts I believe I sent was of the SPX on a daily closing basis back to 2007/2008 where I depicted what I believed to be the index’s…...
Where Might U.S. Equities Finally Encounter a Material Pull-Back?
In the chart below the Dow is plotted on a long-term basis. Note that lines (1) and (2) resistance come into play in the ~16,250-16,500 area. I believe line (1) is the most relevant piece of resistance as it runs…...
Another Analog Framework from Which to Assess the Nikkei’s Rise
As of late, in conjunction with the Nikkei breaking above long-term trend-line resistance at ~14K, we began to suggest in this post that the index could make a sprint up to ~17.5K before peaking and then correcting. With the above in…...
Is the Nikkei’s Run of Material Out-Performance vs. Other Global Indices Over or is There More Remaining?
The ratio of the DJ World Stock Index vs. Nikkei is plotted below. It was this ratio, among other things, which helped get us very bullish on the index from an execution standpoint, in 2012, in our humble opinion, well…...
Thoughts on the Nikkei in Real Terms
We’ve had some commentary recently about looking at the Nikkei in real terms. By real we meant taking the nominal value of the Nikkei and dividing by 10 Yr UST yields as a proxy for CPI. 10 Yr UST yields…...
Butter, Meet Hot Knife
Coming into this week the Nikkei faced incredibly important and formidable resistance. As a refresh that resistance included: A falling trend-line off the 1989 and 2007 highs – the most important tops in the index’s history 61.8% Fib retracement resistance,…
Analog Update
Haven’t updated analogs in a while so this will be an exhaustive attempt at that. 1) 4th & 5th Consecutive Annual Gain – All ex 1928/1929 – Dow 1A) 4th & 5th Consecutive Annual Gain – 1988/1989 vs. 2012/2013 –…...
Nikkei Faces Critical Resistance, What Would a Break Above Do?
As we’ve said all along, 14K seemed like a likely upside target for the Nikkei this year. Now that we’re there, what do we do? To be honest, we’ve not been sure and have vacillated back/forth b/t a new secular bull beginning…...
Market Nearly Perfectly on Track to Deliver 15% Median, One-Year Gain as Suggested Last August
On August 15 last year in this post we noted that if the market closed that week above 12,982 there was a 91% chance it would be higher one year later, with a median expected gain of 15%. The market closed…