The Not So Orthodox Broadening Stock Market Top
Stock-Markets / Technical Analysis Dec 15, 2009 - 04:37 PM
A few of you have been asking me whether I am still following the broadening top formation. The answer is, Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes.
Being a fractal with self-similarity, the broadening top has replicated itself at several degrees of trend, much like the fern leaf to the left. This is giving it the power to extend beyond its expected boundary by repeating a self-similar pattern over and over again.
Normally, blue point 5 would be where green point (i) is. However, with a lot of water and fertilizer (liquidity and bulls--t), the fractal began to grow another (green shoots) extension. The second extension wasn’t as strong as the first, but added another four months to its timeline.
The points of a broadening top formation are not normally the same as Elliott Waves, but the green extension points could just as easily be an Elliott Wave count. This is clearly not the traditional wave pattern. Note that the bottom blue trendline not only gives us the boundary of the original broadening formation, but it also highlights the diminishing trading volume over time. It is also the ultimate target for the initial decline from the top of its formation.
Note that there is little consistency between the green (positive) trading volume versus the red (negative) trading volume on a day-to-day basis.
Finally, the third (red) broadening formation appears.
The red broadening top formation has more of the look of the Orthodox Broadening Top seen in Edwards and Magee’s Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, pp 151-154. Not to be outdone, however, a final broadening formation (black) inserts itself. The entire process has left a series of false signals for discouraged traders.
Volume, which tends to diminish in a bearish wedge, is erratic in a broadening top. There are multiple false breakouts in both directions, also giving false directional signals. This is why so many professional traders and money managers are throwing in the towel. Their accounts have been chewed up by the whipsaw movements within the pattern.
Finally, the final point 5 has reversed into what may be best described as an impulsive wave. It has been followed by a corrective pattern that could not regain the prior highs. This may be the final gasp of a very difficult trading pattern.
If the identification of this pattern is correct, the selling floodgates will be opened once the SPX goes below 1085. Investors interested in a unique methodology that charts the cyclical patterns of the market can inquire about my daily newsletter subscription by emailing at tonyc@thepracticalinvestor.com.
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