16 Nov 2011

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Beware - lots of charts saying similar things - I don't know why I keep making them all when they essentially show the same thing, but whatever.  Holy Grail Syndrome, I'll call it.

 As you probably know, I love this indicator as the timing devices I put on it.  Top:  Pretty much near historical highs.  All of which came on the back of unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus.  Check out the bottom RSI.  Can't really get much higher huh? Middle: TSV could get higher, but notice it is hitting its second std, something that rarely happens as you can see.

 % Stocks above 40 day moving average.  Can't get much higher, huh?

 This is percent of stocks above 200 day moving average.  Remarkable weakness when compared to the rally of the fall last year. 

 This one shows the charade of the Nasdaq composite.  Check out the Nasdaq 100 advance decline line (green) compared to the total Nasdaq composite advance decline line.  Note that the total Nasdaq throws out most other stocks which is why its price is more similar to the Nasdaq 100.  So the question is, when, not if, will the Nasdaq 100 stocks (GOOG, AAPL, PCLN, AMZN) start joining the bear market?  It always happens.

Speaking of, check out GOOG.  It messed around with my upper resistance more than I thought it would.  Check out the middle and bottom of this chart.  Will it break the lower resistance?  I am quite confident, in time, it will.  Sorry Google.  Thanks for hosting this blog.

 This would make me waiver more in that it could try to re-rally soon for its recent highs despite the already ridiculously overbought status of the McClellan Summation index.  Therefore, still overbought.

 Becoming oversold at 65%.   However, impressive building of higher lows on the hold short index.

 I think probably every blog has this up.  Note the target on the left side of the screen - 117.  SOMETIMES the price can bottom and try to regain the channel by going up and tagging it.  That COULD happen, but like I said, I don't see how it could last long considering the Summation Index.

 Medium and longer term custom oscillators.  Don't really show much other than that we have had lower peaks and lower lows.

 This is redundant of the short and medium term charts except that the bottom shows the TSV and Moneystream for the Dow.  It is clear that we are at high levels for TSV and Moneystream did not participate in the rally of last year as the Dow made new highs and this didn't.

 This is the Holy Grail Indicator I created.  It sums the percentage of stocks with a moving average over another moving average for pretty much every time frame from 1 day to 377 days.  This SHOULD help us find significant bottoms and great buying opportunities on the divergences between lows and price.

I know there are a lot of silver fans that read this blog because I was a huge bull up until it started hitting its 3rd standard deviation around 45.  Note that when it lost my lower trendline, we have a target of 23, which coincidentally is the 61.8% fibonacci retracement from the bottom in 2009 to the high in 2011.  Also, if you draw a trendline from the low in 2009 and connect all the other lows in 2010 along that line, it appears to meet the price around 23.  This is also very near the highs from the 2008 market which SHOULD serve as support for that reason. This is also near the 500 day simple moving average which should be support. Currently the stochastics are overbought and it met pretty good resistance at the moving averages and the 38.2% fib retracement after stopping near the 50% fib.

Silver at 23 would be a gift.  You can sure bet the money guns will come blazing then.  I'm actually terrified of that.

You're welcome.

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-- John Maynard Keynes, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", pages 220-223 (1919).

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