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Chop Chop (8/1/02)
On Thursday morning when I posted
in the Intraday Stool threads that the charts suggested that the market
would chop for awhile, I did mean a karate chop. The market does indeed
resemble the pictures of "Galloping
Gertie" the suspension bridge that collapsed back in the 1940's,
(credit to stoolie Gladiator for his reminder about that great analogy to
this market..
Dow Inflatables
Veddy
in-ter-esting. Was the sharp selloff the beginning of a top, or just
a normal blip in a sideways up phase consolidation? Consider that the 6-7
week cycle is just over 6 weeks from the last high, that the 4 week cycle
is almost 4 weeks from its last high, and that on a very short term basis
the Dow is 13 days from the last minor peak, with the 13 day oscillator
turning down. There's plenty of reason to be suspicious. Suspicious of
what you ask? Suspicious that the market's wild swings of the last few
weeks, in particular the mushroom cloud rally, may have been a reflection
of a derivatives crisis, the picture of a modern day Galloping Gertie.
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Portfolio Sphincters Index (SPX)
and Sentiment
Couple of interesting things
on the SPX chart. The VIX ran to the upper inner Stool Band on Monday and
Tuesday. That's good enough for a short term sell signal if the market is
still in a downtrend, and lo and behold, the rally stropped dead at the
upper channel of the 6 month cycle band on the second chart below. (dark
blue channel.) The 6-7 week and 10-13 week cycle up phases are beginning
to smell like a garden variety, albeit extremely volatile, swup, and not
the powerful six month cycle up phase it looked like it might be.
The Cycle Conditions tables include cycle
phase and a wild guess as to number of periods to the next turn, in days
for the shortest cycles, weeks (W) or months (M) for the longer ones. This
is a fluid exercise, in other words, the projections are likely to be
wrong, but they force us to be vigilant for key turning points, and
frequently work well enough to prevent costly misreadings.
SPX
Cycle Conditions as of 8/1/02
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Cycle |
Phase/PTT |
Target |
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6
Month |
Up/4-8W |
Too
Early |
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10-13
Week |
Up/0-12 |
?? |
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6-7
Week |
Up-Top/0-3 |
?? |
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20-25
Days |
Up-Top/0-3 |
920 |
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8,13
Day |
Top-Down/1-6 |
Too
Early |
PTT - Periods Till Turn
L-Low,
H-High
SWD=
Sideways Down Phase- Trading Range
SWU=Sideways Up
p: preliminary
Too Early: Too soon to project
Nasgap
Charts
Well, looky here boys and girls. The moment of truth came, and went! And
nothing happened! All of the downtrending cycle channels are still intact.
The short cycle got to overbought and got its head chopped off. The 10-13
week cycle indicator is in an up phase, but this sucker looks like
it's headed for a retest of the low. A weak bounce off the retest would
guarantee a Hobbesian up phase. Nasty, brutish, and short. From the looks
of the indicators, the 6-7 month cycle hasn't quite turned yet after all,
and the Nas may still have a date with that sub 1100 cmap. Another down
day Friday, and Doc might even do a George Zimmer.
Nasdaq
Cycle Conditions as of 8/1/02
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Cycle |
Phase/PTT |
Target |
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6
Month |
Down/0-4W |
1075 |
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10-13
Week |
SWU/0-12 |
Too
Early |
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6-7
Week |
SWU/0-7 |
1350
(Done) |
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20-25
Days |
SWU/0-7 |
1350
(Done) |
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8,13
Day |
Down/2 |
1200-1250 |
PTT
- Periods Till Turn
L-Low,
H-High
*SWD=
Sideways Down Phase- Trading Range
SWU=Sideways Up
p: preliminary
Too Early: Too soon to project
AM
Edition Features (Previous) These
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Long
Bong Hit
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Watch- Will return this weekend
Stoolwethers
-Will return this weekend
Uncle Buck's Illness
Golden
Stool
See you in Intraday
Stool.
Dr. Stepan N. Stool
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Explanation of Intraday Commentary-Build
charts at http://www.livecharts.com.
For custom time bars insert a comma after symbol and number of minutes,
e.g. compx,90. This will give you a bar chart of the Nas with 90 minutes
per bar. The one day cycle is usually most clear with 8 minute bars and
26/18 stochastics. It varies from day to day. Sometimes 6 minutes works
best. Experiment to find the best fit for your trading style, and the
market's dominant frequency at the time.
The goal here is primarily to monitor the condition of the 8 and 13 day
cycles. I typically use 90 minute bars with 26/18 stochastics for the 13
day cycle proxy on the indices during regular trading hours. Other cycles
use 26/18 stochastics with the following:
8 days- 60 minute bars
5 days- 40 minute bars
3 days- 24 minute bars
2 days- 16 minute bars
1 day- 6, 7, or 8 minute bars
On the 24 hour futures charts, use a time per bar approximately 3 to 4
times the above number of minutes, to represent the cycles listed above.
ABBREVIATIONS:
cma: centered moving average
cmap: centered moving average projection
os or ozzie: oscillator
sto: stochastic
swup: sideways up phase
swdp: sideways down phase
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