2021 was yet another tumultuous year. Which stock market sectors thrived during the twists and turns of the last 12 months, and which faltered?
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Bonds are getting hit very hard on this first trading day of the year. This is pretty much as low as TLT can go without breaking its intermediate-term uptrend. For ten months, this line has held fast, but given today’s move, interest rates ar…
What seemed so permanent for 13 long years will be revealed as shifting sand and what seemed so real for 13 long years will be revealed as illusion. Magical thinking isn’t optimism, it is folly.
The conditions we were looking for last month have happened. It sets up a perfect storm. But we are ready for it.
I concluded last week that the small number of signals, particularly buy signals suggested that the rally was exhausted, despite the buys having the edge. I chose not to add any charts to the list, long or short, but held on to all of the shorts that had been on the list.
That looks to have been the correct judgement.
This week, I’m adding 5 more shorts to the list.
The party rocks on. The 5 day cycle projection is 4813. Back to the highs.
If it clears that, we hunt for the top of the megaphony at 4834. Happy New Year, bulls. Bears, not so much. Wait till summer.
Meanwhile, the big picture…
Cycle screening measures screamed higher in a pattern similar to October-November 2020. That led to a breakout and long upleg. It doesn’t guarantee the same outcome here, but we need to be cognizant, and prepared for the possibility.
One of the countless canards bandied about by the mass media is how instructive January trading activity is. I disagree. Let’s take a couple of quick, simple examples. First of all, there’s this notion that there’s all kinds of pe…
We need to place the Fed’s 2021 blunder into proper context. Compound mistakes over a long period, and associated risks explode exponentially. The Federal Reserve is now 13 years into a failed QE experiment.
In other words, our economy and society have been optimized for failure.