Feb 1, 2012

Following The Plan

It seems like today we will get another strong up day in the stock market. Again, it is getting very, very late in the 9-week cycle, momentum and money flow readings are still flirting with overbought areas and many high quality stocks are extended from their buy points. The general picture is still excellent. I haven't seen such a strong accumulation for about a year. But in the short term market will have to correct 3 to 5% if there is any more upside to come. I think what we are seing today in Nasdaq and hopefully tomorrow in SPX is a short term climax top that shall end the accumulation phase. Nasdaq is at new highs, but technically I give more credence to SPX, which is close to testing last week's high. We had a very nice run in the past month, but now is the time to take some off, especially in high octane names that can get killed during a correction. I'm trigerring a neutral signal on the stock market.


The same applies for gold, which is even more overbought as stocks. Of course, this is a sign of long term strength, but right now I think gold may correct more, somewhere between 5 and 8%, before starting another leg higher. If anyone is thinking about buying gold right now... Good luck. Gold is also on neutral signal. We have to wait for a low risk entry once this extreme sentiment chills out a little bit.

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