Intermediate term view - lower high and intermediate term high is behind us...
Cool off as expected, the indexes are crawling down. A little bit confusing signs - DJIA very weak, Russel 2000 strong, SP500 something in the middle. Weekly chart with shooting star and red week which closed near at the lows, but on the daily chart no serious technical damages. A lot of divergences on the market breadth indicators. On the hourly chart the move looks like a wedge with expected break out on the upside, the short term cycle is bottoming...
Lets sum it up - the bigger time frames say something bad could happen but no confirmation for now, the shorter time frames say up,up...
My interpretation - the bigger time frame almost always win, which means rally ok but short term and then another move lower. How high? - DJIA is the weakest index lower high, SP500... I do not think it will make it to new highs.
TECHNICAL PICTURE
Short term - one final push lower around 1680 is 50% retracement and attempt for a rally. Bearish surprise will be if the price plunges bellow the lower wedge trend line than the target is ~1670 and 61,8% retracement.
Intermediate term - move lower to MA50, the price should find should find support short term around this levels. The scenarios stay the same like last week. We have double divergence on MACD. The bulls must consolidate the price and push higher to negate the divergence or a bigger correction will follow.
- Momentum Histogram/RSI - momentum is pointing lower, short term trend is down.
Long term - I have looked closer the histogram and it seems that it makes the same pattern as the previous tops. Based on the histogram behavior move 4 of the sequence is behind us and the last final and strongest move has started. Lets see if the pattern continue to predict the price action.
- Momentum Histogram/RSI - not clear.... no useful information
MARKET BREADTH INDICATORS
The Market Breadth Indicators - the signals are still bullish, oscillators are reseting and double divergences everywhere.
McClellan Oscillator - reseting after extremes as expected
McClellan Summation Index - buy signal, but weak and way bellow previous tops... making a double divergence.
Weekly Stochastic of the Summation Index - buy signal.
Bullish Percentage - buy signal, but no "enthusiasm" at all... double divergence.
Percent of Stocks above MA50 - every rally is followed by a lower high of the indicator.
Fear Indicator VXO - higher low and divergence... bad for stocks.
Percent of Stocks above MA200 - lower high after lower high.... the internals are worsening after every rally.
Issues Declining - higher low after higher low... less stocks are moving higher, more stock are moving lower.
HURST CYCLES
Lets take a look at our colorful cycle chart:) - first we have 3% standard pullback after only 15 days which means the move to the upside was 10 days shorter than usual and its size is 6,4% which is less than 7% or more compared with the previous moves. Ok the last rally was shorter and with smaller size than usual which means the bigger cycles are pulling the price lower. On the other side we are at day 22 of this 40 cycle and probably we will see a short term bottom. The bulls must master strong rally to negate the signs... I am skeptical, but w will see what happens next week.
If my interpretation of the cycles is right, we should see stronger move lower in the next 2-3 weeks to finish the current 20 week cycle.
Tom Demark SEQUENTIAL AND COUNTDOWN - this technique spots areas of exhaustion.
We saw a price flip on Monday and we have currently 5 of a setup. It is difficult to say if it will finish or we will see another price flip next week.
Krasi,
ReplyDeleteIs it possible for the short-term Hurst cycles to reverse. Meaning the cycles begin to be high to high. Given that the intermediate term trend is possibly shifting to down. So we could look at mid-October for a high?
Hi Topher,
Deleteit's not that they reverse just the phase up is getting shorter and looking at the tops the cycle looks more symmetrical or better so to speak.
You can always count the cycles from top to top and the results will not be worse than counting from bottom to bottom.
The difference is, that cycles with different length will top at different time point and bottom at the same time. That is visible when an index is topping, and you see several distinct tops - for example the toping in 2011.
That is why it is accepted to count from bottom to bottom.
What I am doing is to track the length of the phase up. If it is longer than half of the cycle length - bullish, top around the middle of the cycle - the bigger one is topping, shorter than half of the cycle - bearish.
See the last daily cycle chart which I have posted - right translated cycles, two symmetrical cycles, and the last last one shorter than the others... simple the larger cycle 18 month is pooling the prices lower and probably already topped out.
High in mid-October will mean we saw bottom last weak and expect the top of the last 20 day cycle of the current 20 week cycle or the red scenario more bearish.