***** Technical Analysis (August 23)****
This is an new TA update.
Friday saw a pretty uneventful market, with mixed internals.
The NYSE had slightly positive breadth with slightly negative u/d volume. The Nasdaq had slightly positive breadth with stronger u/d volume figures, so it has modestly outperformed recently.
The Nasdaq/NYSE McClellan Oscillators are +18/+5, respectively so they are hanging on to their positive readings during the week's decline.
Stochastics are mixed and also reflect the decline of the past week, and now the question is whether it has been an orderly correction after the huge runup the week before or if the market has topped and the week's decline is part of a trend reversal.
Thus, the market is staying at a crossroads wherein it needs to reverse back up soon or risk a trend reversal as it has been on a buy signal since a week ago Tuesday, a strong accumulation day that turned many indicators positive.
The weekly NASI Summation indicators including MACD in the second chart below, indicate that there could be more upside for stocks as it has been rising from extremely low levels.
But the market needs to rally soon or risk a bearish reversal, as we have mixed signals at the moment, for the short term and the short-intermediate term.
Crude oil was up modestly today but well off of its highs and gold rallied a little more. Both are oversold and trying to decide if they will change trends or continue their weak ways. (Sorry for the anthropomorphism, LOL!)
It should be noted that gold is entering favorable seasonality while silver has had relative strength compared to gold lately. The USD has been rallying modestly in the past few weeks and rallied again on Friday.
Also, bonds continue to rally with rates declining and if this trend continues, it will also help gold by putting pressure on the USD.
Below is a link to the DMI(ADX), slow stochastics and StochRSI:
stockcharts.com
See the indicators below:
stockcharts.com[m,a]waclyyay[pc30!c20][vc60][iud20!ua12,26,9]
Be sure to use the advantages of the "top-down" approach, a paradigm in technical trading. The bottoms-up approach refers to the idea that market timing is not used and that the goal is to select strong companies from a fundamental standpoint to buy and hold.
The "top-down" approach refers the the idea that one first ascertains the trend of the market, the strongest or weakest sectors for that trend, and the strongest or weakest stocks within those sectors, to trade, all with the trend. For example, recently the oil sector has been among the strongest while the semiconductors have been among the weakest. So when you see the market trending up, you would select the strongest oil stocks to go long, and when the trend is down, you would short the weakest semiconductors.
For breadth momentum charts, see the chart link below and modify it:
stockcharts.com
(change this chart to $compx, weekly charts, and change the lower settings to slow stochastics, macd, and Williams%R to get the best chart)
The Nas weekly Summation-related charts are below:
stockcharts.com[m,a]waclyyay[pc30!c20][vc60][iud20!ua12,26,9]
The Nasdaq McClellan Oscillator and Summation Indexes are linked below:
stockcharts.com
Odds still favor a lower trading range this year, if not an outright cyclical bear market. If one believes in Elliot Wave theory, it is probably hard to make a case that Wave 3 (down) has not started now. It started in early May.
Fundamentally and from a macro-economic viewpoint, the technicals imply that China's growth may slow temporarily at least from an average of 9% to perhaps 7-8%, and India's growth may slow from an average of 7 1/2% to 6%, and the US economy may slow from an average of 3.5-4% the past year to 2-3% for the next quarter, and may become a recession within the next 6-9 months.
Dr.Bob's commentaries are not to be construed as recommendations to buy or sell stocks, options, or ETF's as Dr.Bob is not a Registered Investment Advisor.
Information and data provided here is believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed to be accurate.
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