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Posted by Finance Professional on September 28, 2010 under Stock Market News | 
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
NICE REVERSAL TODAY, XLF MAKES IT LOOK PROMISING FOR THE BEARS, WAVE 2 MIGHT HAVE TOPPED
Using my Elliott Wave analysis fundamentals can give us an edge on predicting future movement of the financial markets.
Today’s internals show a kink in the armor in the beloved bulls rally. Today the sellers dominated internally as you can see from the NYSE and S&P data above, although price didn’t reflect it very well as they only closed modestly down for the day. What’s good to see for the bears is the slight uptick in volume with today’s reversal down day. Shares finally broke above the 1 billion share mark on the NYSE which has been a very difficult task for the bulls to do, but all too common for the bears to do. This is a very bearish sign in my view.
Looking at my daily S&P wave count that is very mature and at, or near, a top. Today’s action leaves a nice setup for a reversal in trend to the downside. You can see that wave 2 has been a very prolonged WXY “Combination” correction (EWI Tutorial, Section 5.1). Wave C of Y fell about 1 point shy of hitting the key 61.8% fibonacci retracement level at 1150 before sharply reversing today. This could be a very bearish development, and looking at the other evidence accompanying the reversal today, it looks promising. If not, the market may try to charge higher toward the 78% fibo retracement level around the 1180 area.
The bullish swing traders on the XLF have to be nervous right now. There are several signs that this baby has topped and is headed lower in the coming days, if not weeks. It’s overall weakness relative to the indices I follow and discuss here is quite noticable at this point.
First you can see that the XLF is the only one that has not been able to exceed its August high. Also notice on this 4hr chart there’s a nice reversal bar formed at the end of the day. You can see that it made a new high above the previous bar, and then reversed to close beneath the previous bar’s intraday low. That produces bearish implications for the financial sector in the coming days if that bar’s high holds at 14.91. Also notice the MACD histogram is “squeezing” down, signaling a cross down in the moving averages is coming. And when you combine that with the other two things I just mentioned, it doesn’t look good for the XLF in the coming days. And a falling financial sector probably means a falling stock market.
RISK IS FINALLY PULLING BACK
If you look at intraday charts of today’s action in the S&P, Dow, NDX, Russell 2000 and XLF you’ll notice that the S&P and Dow did not make new lows at the end of the day, however all the other indices listed did make new lows. What’s interesting here is that during this whole rally the past few weeks, it’s the Nasdaqs and the Russell 2000 have been leading the charge higher by well exceeding the S&P and Dow’s gains almost everyday of the rally. Now today they exceeded the Dow and S&P to the downside and even made new lows. So this might be a signal in trend change occurring here since the riskier assets led the charge lower today.
So the setup is nice again for the bears to come in and takeover this market. If the market hasn’t topped today, it should do so very soon. 1180 should provide strong resistance if the market finds a way to chug higher.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS JUST AN ANALYSIS BLOG AND IN NO WAY GUARANTEES OR IMPLIES ANY PROFIT OR GAIN. THE DATA HERE IS MERELY AN EXPRESSED OPINION. TRADE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
9/21/2010 07:27:00 PM
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