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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 !!!

Monday, November 30, 2009

Stock Market -- Technical

I turned more cautious on the outlook for the market back on 9/20.
Since that time, my internal supply / demand model has run on
the flat side. The model includes a broad unweighted price index
plus the cumulative NYSE adv. / dec. line. Note that with over
3,500 issues now traded on the NYSE, it is basically a small / mid
cap measure.

The SP 500 has done better. It is up about 2.1 % over the same
time frame, and this better performance reflects rotation into
more of the blue chips that may have lagged in the early phase of
the bull run from 3/09. there is also a modest sense of caution as
well since more issues with relatively stable earnings and / or
well protected above average yields have found favor.

Now I have to say that large blue chip indices can easily outrun
my internal supply / demand measure for up to a year or so. Yet,
I do not think it is a favorable long term omen when this happens.
It is also fair to say that a short term disconfirmation of this sort
is not necessarily deadly.

On its own, the SP 500 is in a mild short term uptrend and is
only overbought on measures running out from 14 - 40 weeks.
These are the more important measures, but the situation does
allow positive play in the short run.

NYSE a /d chart.

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