Death Death death. Lots of crosses. I don't think any of those are very useful in a paralyzing sideways market, that's been shown. What's more interesting is this numerical set up of 8-3 thing that is happening. Forget five waves it seems like the market wants to rally for 8 days and rest for 3. Since Mid May one could argue we have been acting this way- with the pattern only becoming more obvious when we tossed in some back to back triple digits to the upside just recently. The recent high I think was on the 26th a few days ago- that followed 8 days of upside on the 9th day we set an interday high and turned south. The 100 point back to back days could argue for a buying climax. Except for the fact that the 8-3 ratio of up to down days also argues for a STAIRCASE PATTERN that slowly forces people to the table. That second camp is the one I am in. DEFLATION is the new Black Swan however- this is the new fear de jour. It would be nice to poo poo it but unfortuately it comes from within the federal reserve.
Volume will be scrutinized as we drift up.
FACT- Since 1970, death crosses in the stock index preceded an average decline of 0.4 percent in the next month and three- and six-month gains of 2.5 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively. Hummmmm. So there is no doubt the cross stops stocks in their tracks for a bit but....
âThe technical analysis world is abuzz again,â Pierre Lapointe, Brockhouse & Cooperâs global strategist, wrote in a report today. Technical analysts use patterns in price charts to make investment decisions. âBut the truth of the matter is that death crosses have little predictive value,â he added.
Back in 2007 the death cross played out with stocks diving 7.7% so most folks remember that but they tend to forget a year earlier (July 14, 2006) the S&P returned 15 % in the six months after a cross signal was flashed.
1980 was the best we had a scary scary death cross and stocks zoomed 31% ahhh those were the days, more recently 2002 the cross played out with stocks dropping 18% that was the largest drop.
Still what of so many Death Crosses is so many countries? What of a study DB of that? If the number of countries having a Death Cross is say over 7 then are we destined to a global free fall of stocks? Or does the sideways stagnant market just allow for a lot of false reads?
Boy it's sad on page 36 this thread starts heating up but we are getting at some good questions.
I should ring up Arch Crawford and see if we can get him a handle here at ET, I know he's all apocalyptic about last Monday-- I think we already had that full moon eclipse not sure. You could only spot it from Easter Island and apparently that was the only stock market affected. Still can you imagine the 2012 madness? That's really going to tank the market; apparently up in the heavens a aligning of planets will happen that hasn't happened basically since the last time the earth's axis was changed. You would think North Dekota South Dekota switch em up what's the big deal... but alas mother nature will have the last word. Imagine the FEAR then...
Well as to today's trading I've gone with CTFO, a last screen I employ is OBV and GAME did not look good there. REFR looked ok in that regard so.... ya I BOUGHT SOME REFR Just 1000 and 1700 CTFO (I really like that chart it has UPSIDE POTENTIAL out the ying yang) and now my work is done (PPO RALLY HARD OFF $24 WHO LISTENED???) We have our horses lets let em ride for two weeks....
Hi Ho Silver Away! Silver tequila that is, I'm going to get so messed up it's not going to be funny. People always look at you strange in the big city if you drink by midday and lay about half naked in the sun... THANK GOD FOR THE BEACH!!

~si