Friday, July 8, 2011

Friday's Decline May be Sign of Significant Reversal


Although it is a laid back summer Friday, today's decline may signal a significant reversal is at hand.  I thought the major indices would march to new highs before any significan reversal but today's action may mean things fall a bit short of that target.  The Nasdaq 100 is the only major index that made a new high.  The Composite, Dow and S&P did not.  That in itself is a warning sign for the market since only the higher risk speculative tech stocks were able to make new highs while the big blue chip solid names failed to do so and dipped out of the rally early perhaps.

It is a Friday so I don't want to get too excited about the action today.  As always, the way the market closes will be important.  Closing on the lows would be a good sign a significant reversal is in place and that the bearish side should be favored for short term players, while a sharp rally into the close getting the indices to even or in the positive would favor the bulls.

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The euro's triangle count is still well on track.  EWP states that "e" waves in a triangle are usually the result of a reaction to a news event.  Well, we had a poor jobs report this morning and the euro declined a bit, fitting well with the wave ((e)) interpretation I have above.  If the above count is correct, Monday should bring a very sharp rally thrust from the triangle to a new high.  But a break below wave ((c)), and especially wave ((a)), would negate the triangle and lead to further heavy selling.


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3 comments:

david christoph said...

one could just feel the optimism behind the rally suddenly deflate upon release of Friday's pathetic jobs numbers (and the downward revision of the previous month). sudden disappointment by discouraging news seems to fit the pattern of a downward minute iv (of minor 5) or downward e (of minor 4). 

"when we get the correction in wave 4 we experience surprising disappointment and suddenly all this optimism and strong economic growth has come to a halt. In wave 5 the optimism returns and we also have much larger market participation but the fundamentals are not as good as they were in wave 3." http://www.elliottwave.com/freeupdates/archives/2011/06/27/Video-The-Personality-of-Stock-Market-Waves.aspx

Jacm said...

Props to you-you have been spot on on the turns of this triangle we started in mid feb

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