Spring Break-Down

By Joseph Russo
ElliottWaveTechnology.com
5/10/2008

 

 

Financial Sphere & Fed Gone Wild / cost, well over $500 Trillion in notional derivatives

With no apparent end in sight to their omnipotent magical power, as you watched our fascist-like fed usurp ever-more control over the financial sphere, were you impressed enough to trade-long shortly following their lead in contriving the spasmodically incessant rally from the March lows? 

 

- We were. 

 

With stammering Hank and Uncle Ben’s “all-in” guarantees to cover your long-butts, did you buy completely into a la-la land bullish frenzy that would launch equity prices straight up the their old highs?

 

No?  Didn’t think so, - we didn’t either, and that’s a good thing.

 

Knowing when to hold ‘em or fold ‘em / cost, $Tens of Thousands in learning-curve dues

Although we positioned long for good chunks of the run, by no means did we buy into it completely.  Going forward, there are a few things to keep in mind however.  One, is that; it ain’t over till’ it’s over.  Secondly, we did not get this far without some battle scars along the way.  Finally, one should never expect perfection in this type of endeavor.  Furthermore, taking pre-determined losses are very much a part of an overall long-term winning strategy.

 

What Next / cost, risking jail-time for blackmailing members of the working group

For now, the jury remains out on this unprecedented intervention.  We will be working intently over the summer to assess the markets deliberation towards verdict on the durability of the feds deplorable self-rescue efforts.

 

Our next tasks are to monitor for a renewed summer rally following this recent spring breakdown, and to observe signs for a resumption of bear market declines amid a potentially serious affliction of the summertime blues.  It should not be too long before we get handle on which direction these coming headwinds are most likely to blow.

 

Markets Waiting to Exhale / cost, $60 Billion straight away give or take

For many, we assume it appeared that the fed-led intervention rally would just keep on going like the energizer bunny.  We suspect many were certain that the rally would eventually fizzle out, but did not know when, or where to position orders to protect long side trading profits, or reverse short to capture the inevitable pullback. 

 

If you were in either camp, you shouldn’t feel too bad.  The rally off the March low was rather complex, elegantly seductive, and difficult to interpret by design.  Whatever you do, don’t get mad – simply get even. 

 

After imposing an authoritarian 50% retracement on the dime of taxpayers, the dynamic duo and their global “working group” apparently achieved some level of comfort in easing off the national emergency, bullish-bid-offensive essential to preserving their sacred monopolies. 

 

Fear not bulls, fascist backstop subsidies will return with statist intervention whenever necessary, and at any cost.  That you can count on - in the meantime... 

 

Nailing a Near-Term Complacent High / cost, just $75.00

Realizing our divine masters had achieved an appropriately safe level of lift following 8-weeks of unprecedented intervention in the supposed free market, we were fully prepared for this week’s rather tricky and sudden decline. 

 

Patiently tracking the fascist-like propping-up of equity markets from the March lows, our proprietary timing, sentiment, and momentum models began sounding a confluence of alarms upon the Dow’s strike-high of 13132 on May 2.

 

On Friday May 2, our Near Term Outlook signaled a key-pivot counter-trend short position in the Dow against the 13132 high.  Proprietary standing criteria elected short positions at 13047, just 85-pts from the top tick. 

 

One week later on Friday May 9, standing proprietary interim-pivot criteria alerted select traders to exit shorts at 12734 near the close, booking over 300-pts profit.  (Or $3,000 dollars in profit for each full-size futures contract traded)

 

Many Caught with their Shorts-Off following Tuesday’s recovery / cost, $3,000.00

If you were certain another high was sure to follow coming off Tuesday’s impulsive recovery rally from the 12863 low, it is likely that you were not alone in such reasonable assumption.  

 

If you lifted shorts, or got caught off-guard after Tuesday’s five-wave impulse rally, which then followed such bullish price-action with an unusually rare sell-off, we suspect you had an abundance of good company. 

 

We presume that this was the precise intent of the prevailing price-action.  We consider this type of price-action the rather fine art of “working group” chart painting-101.    

 

However, if you were privy to viewing our real-time interpretation of the price action at hand, you would have acquired an alternate perception as to what was really going on in the familiar trading arena of cunning and deceit.

 

What, you ask?

How can a five-wave advance be corrective!  How is it that a five-wave impulse is supposed to be able to crest a corrective ‘b’ wave terminal?  How can this be a proper Elliott Wave count?

 

We will show you how. 

 

The chart below provides clear illustration of fully conforming tenets of Elliott Wave structures.  Do feel free to email us in sharing any opposing views. 

 

Hearing Mayday, Mayday / cost, a mere $75.00

As if the market is not difficult enough to forecast and trade, the shenanigans of working group antics can make it even more deceptive. 

 

Tuesday was one of those days where statists executed chart painting-101 flawlessly.  They may have fooled the many, but they did not fool the few, at least not the few who subscribe to our service.

 

Yes, a five-wave advance can be corrective, and yes, five-waves up can terminate a “b” wave at one larger degree.

 

The chart below meticulously illustrates the culmination to our dynamic interpretation of wave structures from the get-go print-high of 13132.30 on Friday 2-May. 

 

 

Short-Term Bull-Trap / cost, $3000.00

In contrast to the choppy corrective decline from the 13132 high, the sub-dividing five-wave impulsive advance from the low on Tuesday led many to believe another fresh high for the move was sure to arrive.

 

The dead giveaway confirming our “take nothing for granted” count was the markets failure to hold and rally from the noted .500 and .618 common retracement levels arrowed with question marks in the chart above.

 

The chart below, extracted from the NTO archives from Wednesday illustrates our real time observations.  As the price action unfolded, and without the benefit of hindsight, we were one-step ahead of the creative chart-painting antics of the most cunning adversary’s on the planet. 

 

At this stage of our analysis, we already had counter-trend shorts on from the 13047 level.  To bolster our Key-Pivot counter-trend position, following the bull-trap five-wave advance toward the -b-wave high near our 13040 break-even point, a shorter-term trade trigger hit a resting target at 12835 into Thursday’s surprise sell-off.

 

Fridays follow through selling sent price beneath our next downside capture window spanning the noted 12776-12747 range.  Additionally for select traders, proprietary criteria also provided another exit or potentially early reversal signal near the close at 12734.  All told, we clearly got the better of the battle in the previous week’s trade.

 

 

 

We intentionally did not include the accompanying 30-minute price-chart for the archived text below.  In the interest of fairness to our clients, we consider displaying proprietary larger degree terminals, and specific trade-triggers or chart notes, a potential compromise of integrity to longer duration open positions held by NTO traders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Markets Covered        Publication          Frequency                   Time-Horizon/Data-Sets

·        US dollar                      NTO                2x per week                 (daily, weekly, monthly)

·        Dow                             NTO                5x per week                 (intraday, daily, weekly, monthly)

·        S&P 500                     NTO                5x per week                 (intraday, daily, weekly, monthly)

·        Gold                             NTO                2x per week                 (daily, weekly, monthly)

·        GLD streetTracks                     NTO                2x per week                 (intraday, daily, weekly, monthly)

·        HUI                             NTO                2x per week                 (daily, weekly, monthly)

·        NDX 100                    NTO                5x per week                 (intraday, daily, weekly, monthly)

·        Crude Oil                     NTO                2x per week                 (daily, weekly, monthly)

·        20-yr Bond Yields        IMF                   Monthly                                  (monthly)

·        CRB                            IMF                   Monthly                                  (monthly)

·        Emrgng.  Mrkt. Index   IMF                   Monthly                                  (monthly)

·        NYSE Composite                    IMF                   Monthly                                  (monthly)

·        NASDAQ Composite  MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Silver                            MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Canadian Dollar                        MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Australia’s ASX                       MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Shanghai Composite     MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Russia’s RTSI              MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        India’s BSE Sensex      MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Brazilian Bovespa                     MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Mexican Bolsa              MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        Japan’s Nikkei             MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        London’s FTSE                        MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        French CAC                MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        German DAX               MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

·        DJ World Index                        MWQR                         Quarterly                    (monthly)

 

 

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Joseph Russo
Publisher & Chief Market Analyst
ELLIOTT WAVE TECHNOLOGY

www.elliottwavetechnology.com 

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