***** Technical Analysis (August 3)****
This is an new TA update.
Today Thursday saw a modest rally and late weakness with positive internals.
The NYSE a/d was 19/12 and the u/d vol was worse at 14/13, on heavy volume of 2.8B shares.
The Nasdaq a/d was 17/12 while the u/d vol was 11/7 on moderately light volume of 1.87B shares.
The Nasdaq McClellan Oscillator rose from +20 to +30 while the NYSE Oscillator was little changed at +45, as the choppiness continues.
The rally of the last few weeks has been choppy and needs to see more sectors joining the oil and gas sectors in rallying, and consecutive days up is needed to confirm an extended rally with some legs.
Today the home builders, brokers and other financials rallied, so perhaps more sectors will participate in a market rally.
But the market disappointed bulls by not firming up in the last two hours, but instead weakened when it had a chance to show accumulation by "smart money."
The weekly Summation CCI has a bullish hook at a low level and the Nasdaq Summation appears to have made a double bottom, so a rally could be ensuing.
See the hook in the top chart linked below:
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Now i believe the corrective rally has a good chance of reaching Dow 11,500 and SPX 1325, and could last at least until mid-August, and the Nasdaq needs to close above 2100 in the next few days to indicate that it can participate in the blue chip rally. It had a chance to do that today but failed late.
Geopolitical events could sabotage the bulls while the oversold condition allows for this technical rally because the selling has exhausted itself for the time being until the supply/demand balance (and commensurate technical indicators) have a chance to reset.
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:
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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.
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 2.5-3% for the next few quarters.
Because the technicals of the market are so damaged, it is probably not wise to assume that it was just a severe but normal correction within a cyclical bull market, but to remain flexible within a swing trading style, and be aware that we could be in the early stages of a cyclical bear market.
Thus, the expectation is that the overall market trend will be sideways to down now, but choppy, and like much of 2004 and 2006, the energy sector will outperform most others, especially oil E&P's, refiners, drillers, and oil equipment/services companies, as we are now in favorable seasonality for gasoline and crude prices.
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