Feb 3, 2024

Weekly preview

Lower into FOMC and higher as expected and now everything fits together. We have the pattern following the analysis and completed, cycles completing nicely 10w high after 10w low and 8x5w cycle highs, market breadth weak and divergences, indicators with divergences, NYSE managed to reach 90% retracement for a flat pattern too.
We can see one more pop up on Monday but, this is important top, it can get realy ugly... many see possible ED, election year, years ending with 4 and January higher are always higher:) it is impossible to decline. Looking at the last chart I am not an optimist and that is why I have the top in 2021/2022.


TRADING
Trading trigger - buy signal.
Analysis - at the top. Important turn lower next week.
P.S. - for a trade both analysis and trigger should point in the same direction.


TECHNICAL PICTURE and ELLIOTT WAVES
Short term - we saw the decline probably wave iv. The first target was reached it still possible to see one more high and touch the second target - starting from the lowest point this could be (iv) wave after extended (iii) wave


Intermediate term - two zig-zags down and up with the same size... waiting for B-wave to be completed and C-wave for a flat should follow.
Alternate wave 4 of ED expected.


Long term - 4y cycle high the end of 2021, now a-b-c lower into 4y cycle low in Q1 2024.
Very long term - most likely huge double zig-zag from the 2009 low was completed. Alternate if we are lucky this is some topping pattern triangle or ED and there is one more high in 2025.


MARKET BREADTH INDICATORS
Market Breadth Indicators - does not react to this rally at all... some pointing lower and divergences.
McClellan Oscillator - below zero.
McClellan Summation Index - sell signal.
Weekly Stochastic of the Summation Index - sell signal.
Bullish Percentage - moving lower.
Percent of Stocks above MA50 - moving lower.
Advance-Decline Issues - turned lower with divergence.
Fear Indicator VIX - series of higher lows.


HURST CYCLES
Short term cycles - 20d low as expected now at 20d high. It will complete 8x5w cycles for 40w cycle high.


Week 14 for 40w cycle. I expect 40w cycle low around June consisting of three extended 10w cycles.
Week 27, at a high of at least 40w magnitude... and very likely 18m high too.


Bonus chart(MSFT) for those still living in some fantasy world. We are at MAJOR inflection point. What started in the 80's is completing and reversing. Bonds/yields reversed after almost 40 years, the indices most likely in 2021/2022 too with a double top now caused by the tech sector completing their patterns. It is over, it is new environment, it is the inflection point of a life time. You can take profits or watch how everything evaporates.
It is not just MSFT but it is the perfect example - nothing much to explain the chart is clear. The trend from the last 30-40 years is over(it is much longer but the "investing life" is 30-40 years anyway).

36 comments:

  1. Hello, do you think is possible to come back below 4000 taking in consideration that estimated EPS 2024 is around 232 points and a us 10y bond expected around 3,5%.

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    1. Of course it can... it should move below 4000 and funnymentals do not matter.

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    2. why is it still a 'BUY' when its all pointing to a crash?

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    3. The price still has not turned lower.

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    4. krasi, do you expect it to go down below 4000 by June this year? or after second ATH in 2025?

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    5. Below the October.2023 low how much I can not say.

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    6. ok but can this correction can go below 4500 this month?

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  2. 28 december 5w high, 30 january too, so end of january top at the last 5w high?

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  3. What do you mean by fantasy world and everything evaporates? Your long term chart only has us going back to October lows.

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    1. The majority is still in a deep sleep thinking everything is fine business as usual when a mega trend lasting decades (I would say 90-100 years from 1929) is about to reverse. All this great profits will evaporate like a snow in the sun. I am trying to show this with a simple chart for those who want to listen - most are blinded by greed and easy profits and prefer to escape in the fantasy world instead to face reality that the era of cheap money is over bonds/yields have reversed. What we saw from 2009 is over and we will not see it again in our life time.
      The long term chart shows only the next 6 months not the next 10 years.

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  4. So, do you think that in the next decade we enter in “lateral for longer” with markets sideways plus minus 30%

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    1. Yes, I wrote about this a few weeks ago. Commodities will fly paper will be junk.

      The second comment:
      https://practicaltechnicalanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/01/weekly-preview_13.html#comment-form

      "we have important year major shift commodities to stocks in 2011. There is periods when you should invest in commodities and periods to invest in stocks.
      Look at long term gold chart and you will see what I mean... by the way the next shift is coming in a few years.
      - 1970-1980 gold soaring stocks correcting
      - 1980-2000 stocks soaring gold correcting
      - 2000-2010 gold soaring stocks correcting
      - 2010-202X stocks soaring gold correcting(sideways but it is a correction look at silver)
      - 2030-2040 gold soaring stocks... probably a dud"

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  5. So, the stocks are going soaring till 1929?

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  6. Is it possible that last Wednesday was only 20d low?

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    1. Yes, NYSE/DJ made a low later compared to SPX/NDX - not sure which one to count.
      That is why the 5w and the 10w low are with question mark on the cycle chart.

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    1. Ending Diagonal - see Krasi's link from last week for NASDAQ. https://invst.ly/139j1b

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    2. Per StockCharts ChartSchool (EDs): "This wave often occurs when the preceding move of the trend has gone too far, too fast and has run out of steam. In all cases, they are found at the end of the higher degree motive or corrective wave. This wave pattern indicates the termination of the previous trend of one higher degree."

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  8. Krasi, the ED is for the long term, for 2024-2026

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    1. There is no 2026, mid-2025 for ED to complete.

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    2. so there is no top now until 2024 mid? I am confused as its different from your chart.

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    3. mid 2024 should be a low, in the case of ED we will see one more high.

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  9. Hello Krasi, Thanks for all the information you share , I did not get what you mentioned in message above: "what we saw from 2009 is over and we will not see it again in our life time." it means no more collapse? or Bear market?

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    1. My bad English - what we saw after 2009 is ultra easy money leading to bubbles everywhere... like NVDA for example 140 times higher since 2015. This is history and in the next 20 years it will not repeat.

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    2. Thanks for every thing :)

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  10. Krasi, how many more days do you think for the top?

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    1. Short term pattern should complete on Thursday impulse-triangle-impulse - https://invst.ly/13d0vt

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    2. Since you say "short term", do you expect more upside in medium term given the strength?

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    3. No this is at least 40w cycle high and 40w low should follow so lower into May/June

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    4. karsi, are we there yet?

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  11. NDX clear zig-zag patterns with perfect Fibo at three different degrees with double divergence - https://ibb.co/pvpNCRZ

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    1. Overshoot through upper wedge line likely, Krasi, due to strength of larger trend since November '23?

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