Slow motion turn...into Spring

Hmm, from the open of dow -100 to +30, with a closing of -1pt. Again, its pretty dull and tiresome.

Whilst this nonsense continues, it seems best to focus on the bigger picture. Moves of less than 1% are merely noise, not least when the last 3 weeks has been a super tight trading range.

IWM remains stuck in a 3 week distribution formation. Pretty clear, a break over 84 ...chase it higher..and break under 81...chase it lower.

VIX is still suggesting 2-3 weeks until the first opportunity for an explosion upwards – somewhere in the upper 20/low 30s.

The master index arguably broke out of the baby wedge purely due to being squeezed out for time reasons.

Some more dynamic movement..is due.

We have lots of econ-data to come this week, not least of which might be a Q4 GDP number likely to be revised somewhat lower.

Near term (within 3-7 trading days) targets:

Bearish: VIX 21/22, SP' 1320, IWM' 79

Bullish: VIX breaking <16, with SP' 1385, IWM 84+

Moody Posters

I am noticing more moodiness out there across the various boards. The doomers are getting increasingly desperate for a major move lower (hell, many of them were shorting at sp'1250 in November) -which increasingly looks unlikely. Meanwhile the cheerleaders are on an ever more confident tirade, touting new market highs sometime this year.

Clearly, the very limited trading range we are now stuck in, is starting to really frustrate a lot of the posters out there.

Regardless of the crazy posters, March is this coming Thursday. Spring is coming......its time for some of those 'Green Shoots' again.

NYSE weekly- baby wedge within giant wedge

Hmm, that is indeed one hell of a wedge.

Contrary to what many of the deluded might believe, the markets are still not even above last summers high. I dismiss the stupid dow'30. That index remains laughable, and should be the dow'100 for anyone to take it seriously. Same for the Transports which only have 20 components (surely they can find at least 50 companies that are in the transport sector?).

So..targets...

1 The big 8000 level must be broken below, for ANY bear to get excited
2. We need to at least hit the 10MA - which by March'2 will be around 7900.
3. 7600 -  for the doomsters to genuinely have some serious evidence that wave'2 is complete.

These are not even bold targets. They should be easily attainable in a standard retrace. That is not to say of course that we won't get a really annoying higher high. However, as noted in previous posts, the smarter ones -with the big money to short, will be waiting for a lower high to occur on any subsequent bounce.
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Sunday night futures wheel is spinning of course, marginally lower.

Market moves remain noise until we see a dow -175 day, and close at that, or better.

Three Bubbles

 *As inspired by original poster (from the Daneric message board) - KBMCK


Looking back over two decades of lunacy

The day to day nonsense that are the capital markets of the western world often lead us to lose sight of the  bigger picture. Even a 5 year view is often too close to grasp the grander cycles. Stockcharts allows us to look back 20 years (I wish it was further!).

The Renko chart style was used by user KBMCK this weekend, and I've taken it, and added a few small notes of my own.

Its certainly a chart I intend to refer back to again later this year. If the doomster case is correct then the NYSE should be under 5k, and it'll be 'game on' for the permabears. Of course, if we are consistantly above 9k, then the H/S pattern - for this bubble is arguably busted, and we could easily spiral upward in an inflationary lunatic move inspired by none other than the Bernanke himself.