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Retired chief investment officer and former NYSE firm partner with 50 plus years experience in field as analyst / economist, portfolio manager / trader, and CIO who has superb track record with multi $billion equities and fixed income portfolios. Advanced degrees, CFA. Having done much professional writing as a young guy, I now have a cryptic style. 40 years down on and around The Street confirms: CAVEAT EMPTOR IN SPADES !!!

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Stock Market -- Technical

The powerful, compact uptrend that began in mid-July '06
was destroyed by a brief, fast sell-off in late Nov. But
the market righted itself and has embarked on a new uptrend
running from 11/27 through the present. The momentum is
decent but less ambitious than the Jul.-Nov. run. In
both runs, the dips have been bought quickly and so have
been shallow. The surges up are moderating, as profit takers
are moving in more quickly as the rally goes along. On
balance, the advance has been orderly and disciplined, with
none of the divergences evident that would signal a speculative
blowoff. Sentiment measures are bullish enough to warn, but
are not yet egregious.

The rally blew right through the seasonally shaky days of Sep.
and Oct. February is a seasonally weak month, and attention
should be paid. From a cycle perspective, the latter part of
March may hold even more risk of some damage.

An intermediate term overbought condition developed in late
autumn of last year, but this was largely relieved by the
sideways action running from mid-Dec. through mid-Jan.
However, the strong price action in the composites since
the end of January has re-introduced an overbought and has
turned my breadth model and my favorite non-cap. weighted
index, The Value Line Arithmetic ($VLE), short run over-
extended.

Short term, I like to watch the market against its 10 and 25
day M/A's. In a rising market, a break below the 25 day M/A
catches my attention, particularly if the "10" follows suit.
See here.

1 comment:

Deepthroat said...

Do you think that I may miss something if I take a break from the front end and move to the back office for a few years to take a break? Are there any ways to make the Trustee business a big contributor of the revenue generation?