Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Update to Feb 26-27, 2013 Major Confluence in Stocks


Posted below are updates to a few charts and another chart showing a pi and phi alignment on 2/27/13.

I began accumulating Sep and Jan SDS calls (double short ETF) on the close today, 2/27. If I'm wrong and the market continues higher for a while, I suspect we will have significant correction (just based on current sentiment readings alone) long before the calls decay too much. I will look to get more aggressively short on a break of the 2/26 low. If/when the 2/26/13 low is broken, stops would be placed 1 point above whatever high is achieved on the rally since the 11/16/12 low .

There are any number of possibilities that may unfold after this confluence window:
a) the market ignores this timing confluence and keeps on going up,
b) the market turns down and does one of its little pullbacks that brings out all the buy-the-dippers that have had their way for a long time now, and the market then takes another leg up into May where there is another timing confluence that may mark the end of the bull since 2009 low,
c) the market turns down for a reasonably innocuous looking correction followed by a 50-70% retracement which then rolls over into a wave of highly motivated selling that climaxes around 4/24/13 (ref 1929 and 1987).
d) the market turns down with a scary sell-off, but rallies back to near the highs and starts a slow grind down before more significant declines happen later in the year (ref 2000 and 2007).

I'm leaning toward c or d as being most probable, but I'm fully aware that virtually anything is possible. I think it's very possible the music stops on or near 2/27/13. I recommend finding a chair pretty soon if it does.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Feb 26-27, 2013 Confluence for Stocks


There is a major time square from the 9/03/1929 top that projects to 2/26/13. Other projections from the 1929 top have marked important highs and lows, including 8/25/1987 top and 8/25/2010 low.

The current rising wedge pattern in the S&P 500 looks very similar to the wedge that lead to the top in 2000. Other timing annotated on the charts posted below includes the 353 trading-day leg down from 2007 top to 2009 low. If the rally from 10/04/11 matches this 353 trading day run, it would peak on 2/27/13.

Also worthy of note is the 65 to 67 trading runs for the last legs up into the 1929 and 1987 tops. A similar run from the 11/16/2012 low takes us to 2/26/13 (at 67 tds).

It's still too early to assume that 2/26/13 area would be a top. If we trend down into that date I would expect a low followed by another rally. I would keep in mind that we are getting close to the 13 year anniversary of the 3/24/2000 top and that the market may have some kind of CIT on or near that date.

Kim Rice 2/10/13