To: velociraptor_ who wrote (13838 ) 9/19/2001 9:54:52 PM From: JRI Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 209892 Whadda make of this (got it off of Colorado K-wave thread...) On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:32:38 -0600, Bob Bronson wrote: >At 2:45 PM EST today, it appears that #3, in a 1-2-3-4-5 >pattern decline starting from the Sept 24-27 intraday highs, >is now ending. Triggered by the announcement of US air >strikes, we expect the #4 rally has started and that will >likely last only one week or so. As usual, it will reflect >that decline #5, which started at the end of July (summer) >highs, was declining at an unsustainable rate, obviously >accelerated by the terrorism attack. > >While the vast majority of analysts will consider the >Muslim-Extremist Attack on America (METAA) to be an >exogenous shock to the capital markets, we do not. As >my previous posts have explained, we quantify military >actions, including acts of terrorism, in the political >group of indicators of the four-paired factors in our >forecasting model: monetary-economic, political-social, >valuation-sentiment, and inter- and intra-market technicals. > >We expect the coming #4 Very Short Term rally (days) will >reflect a second look at the historically unprecedented >number and degree of monetary policy-maker interventions, >as well as additional fiscal-policy interventions, which >at this stage are mainly industry bailout considerations. > >We expect the subsequent #5 decline to bring the US stock >market down to an early October low, ending the Short Term >decline (weeks) that started at the end of July - the summer >rally high. We expect this early October bottom will likely >lead to only a Short Term rally (weeks), #4 in the 1-2-3-4-5 >pattern decline, which started on the May 22 spring high. > >Then finally following this October rally, we expect the >#5 selling panic MCHVIE to start in the next higher order >1-2-3-4-5 pattern Long Term (quarters) bear market from >the March 24, 2000 highs in the capitalization-weighted >index of all exchange-traded US common stocks. See the >attached .gif chart. > >We expect this selling panic MCHVIE will last until about >year end, reflecting complete capitulation by the consensus >of both trend-following fundamentalists and technicians, >ending what we expect will be the A downleg of an ABC >zigzag pattern decline. This will likely finally end the >discounting of the global recession consequence of the >bursting of the high-tech bubble, but it will not end the >deflationary Supercycle bear market period that we called >on 10/7/97. That report available to anyone on private >e-mail request. > >Of course adverse events in the emerging Anti-Terrorism >War/Campaign/Attack could again alter the timing of our >expected Growth Cycle based sequence of lower lows, but >meanwhile we believe it is a reasonable working model of >what is likely to unfold in the immediate days, weeks >and months ahead. > >Bob Bronson >Bronson Capital Markets Research