Lets take a look at the usual six US indexes
sp'500
The spike floor candle of two weeks ago was indeed a clear warning to the equity bears that the market was set for another multi-week up wave. Underlying MACD (blue bar histogram) cycle is now positive, and could easily tick higher for another 2-3 weeks. There will be some serious resistance in the 1820/30 zone by end November. The 1900s look 'briefly' possible on a brief 'pre-Christmas spike', before significant year end profit taking.
Nasdaq Comp'
The tech gained 0.7%, and remains in an accelerated upward trend. The big 4000 level looks set to be hit within the next week or two. The only issue the bull maniacs need ask themselves...'is the 2000 tech bubble' peak in the 5100s viable in 2014?
Dow
The mighty Dow continues to lag, but still managed gains of 1.1%. It will be very important for the bulls to see the Dow break into the 15800s, which will be plenty enough to confirm the strength seen in other indexes.
NYSE Comp'
The master index has broken into the 10000s for the first time since Oct'2007. There is simply nothing bearish here, and the next upside target is around 10200/300 by late November.
R2K
The second market leader gained just 0.3% this week, but still, the trend is unquestionably still broadly strong. Next upside target is around 1175/1200 by late Nov/early December.
Trans
The old leader is still leading the way, and gained a very impressive 2.6%. Part of the reason is that transport stocks are rallying on lower Oil/Gasoline prices. The tranny is now in the 7000s, which was a level that looked like 'crazy talk' in the early spring. My hyper-bullish outlook would have the tranny peak around 7500/750 next spring, before some kind of a very significant decline - in the style of summer/autumn 2011, perhaps all the way down to the 5500/5000 zone.
Summary
Unquestionably, the up trend continues, as seen even more clearly on the bigger monthly charts. With the market surviving the often difficult trading month of October, I think any significant retrace is now off the table, and I don't think we'll see sub sp'1700 for the remainder of the year.
The hyper-bullish outlook calls for sp'2000/2200 by late Spring/early summer 2014, then a major 20% drop, before the ramp resumes across 2015/16
sp'monthly6b
It is pretty disturbing to consider that even if we see a major 20% drop next year, QE will surely continue to a large extent, and the market will simply resume the ramp for another year or two. Right now, sp'2500 by late 2015 looks a relatively easy target.
Looking ahead
Next week will of course be all about the FOMC, where an announcement is due on Wednesday at 2pm. I do not expect any change in interest rates (as if!) nor the QE of $85bn a month. The Fed are an overly cautious group, and as the mainstream are also starting to realise, 'taper' is almost certainly off the agenda until spring 2014.
There is some econ-data each day of next week. However, the monthly Oct' jobs data - due Fri' Nov'1, is delayed until Nov'8.
*there is heavy QE-pomo of $4-5bn on Monday, and then nothing until at least Friday.
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Upside into November..and keep going?
At the very least, with ongoing QE I have to assume the market will broadly continue to rally into November. Baring some bizarre surprise via the FOMC, the sp'1800s look a given for November. Yes, we're overbought in the near term, but we've seen plenty of up waves where the market will just keep on grinding higher for many weeks...and months.
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