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Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015 Sep 07, 2015 - 10:50 AM GMT

By: Clive_Maund

Stock-Markets

The stockmarket is toxic! It's very important that you don't get seduced by the old siren song of Wall St about "buying the dip" and other nonsense like "being selective". While these strategies have worked up to now, they won't any longer, because we are now in a bearmarket, and furthermore it looks like we are on the verge of another plunge.


The past few weeks have been momentous. The stockmarket has finally broken down from the huge bearish Rising Wedge that we had delineated many months ago, as shown on the 8-year chart for the S&P500 index below. The validity and importance of this Wedge is amply demonstrated by the fact that after the index broke down from it, it plunged.

S&P500 Index 8-Year Chart

There's an old saying that "they don't ring a bell at the top". Oh really? - they do if you are able to hear it. Witness the chart posted on clivemaund.com a week or so before it turned lower and proceeded to break down and plunge...

S&P500 Index 4-Year Chart

We had also correctly identified and delineated a massive Distribution Dome forming in the S&P500 index and how the market was topping out at the apex of the Dome during the Summer. The market is now breaking lower, but don't make the mistake of thinking that it will rally back to the Dome boundary again - it won't because markets drop twice as fast as they go up, due to fear being a stronger emotion than greed. Before leaving this chart note that we have seen the first bearish moving average cross for 4 years, and volume on the recent plunge was the heaviest for 4 years, which is also bearish.

S&P500 Index 4-Year Chart 2

Now we turn to shorter-term charts to see what's likely to happen next. On the 3-month chart for the S&P500 index we see that the bearmarket phase kicked off with a super-bearish "4 Black Crows" candlestick pattern. Although this pattern is very bearish indeed, by the time the 4th crow has completed the market is obviously heavily oversold and in need of a breather - hence the bounceback and congestion pattern of the past 2 weeks, which most unfortunately for the bulls, looks like a bear Pennant. Although this Pennant may take a little longer to complete so that we have to adjust its boundaries somewhat, action in recent days suggests that the market will break lower again imminently into another plunge probably of similar magnitude to the 1st, and possibly worse, as the penny finally drops amongst the mob that this is not just a dip but something far worse.

S&P500 Index 1-Month Chart

To see in detail the bearish action of recent days which suggests that the market will break lower again imminently and plunge, we will now look at a 1-month chart, which opens out the congestion pattern of the past 2 weeks. On this chart we see that, in addition to clivemaund.com subscribers sitting on very large profits having bought Puts at the points shown, there were 2 bearish "Evening Doji Star" candlestick patterns in succession over the past 7 trading sessions. We spotted the 1st one forming which is why we bought more Puts, and the 2nd one, which included a very bearish "Gravestone Doji" at its high, suggests that instead of further flim-flamming around, the market is going to break lower and plunge again very soon, and if the pattern of the past 2 weeks is indeed a bear Pennant, it means that the next plunge will be at least of the same magnitude as the 1st. This is important as it gives us an idea regarding when to ditch the Puts (and bear ETFs). The approach of the MACD indicator shown at the bottom of the chart to its moving average, and the contraction of the MACD histogram back towards the zero line are a further indication that the market is now ready to drop again.

S&P500 Index 1-Month Chart 2

Given the awful and rapidly worsening fundamental outlook it is actually surprising that the market has held up as long as it has. We have global debt saturation, which is the core reason for the looming collapse, involving a festering Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe, a hopeless intractable insoluble debt crisis in Japan, ballooning deficits in the US, an imploding Ponzi scheme debt bubble in China, a commodity market that has already collapsed, Emerging Markets that are collapsing, and to cap it all a world in denial. The Fed faces a desperate dilemma - it wants to start a rising interest rate cycle in order to eventually scale down its massive balance sheet and to head off a threatening collapse of the dollar and Treasury market, but if does so it will collapse the stockmarket and create a depression. It is raises rates at its next meeting on 16th - 17th markets will crash. If it doesn't raise them, markets will probably crash anyway, because it will be interpreted as meaning that the economy is too weak to handle even a miniscule rate rise.

Our interpretation is that the markets could collapse without waiting for the Fed, since the writing is already on the wall, because the Fed would willingly sacrifice the stockmarket in an attempt to save the more important dollar and bondmarket, as setting up a rate differential with the rest of the world will sluice a vast torrent of funds into the US and create a cushion - this could loop round and end up supporting the stockmarket again later, regardless of the state of the economy. The US has always been ahead of the competition when it comes to setting global economic policy to its advantage - you only have to look at the establishment of the dollar as the global reserve currency to see that. It leads and the others follow.

Here at clivemaund.com we have already racked up big gains on this collapse thus far, having bought a raft of bear ETFs on 1st August close to the market peak and Puts on 7th August and again on 21st as the crash started, and we are in position to make massive gains if the market proceeds to plunge further as expected and stand ready to exit our positions the moment it looks like the 2nd oversold trough is at hand.

By Clive Maund
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© 2015 Clive Maund - The above represents the opinion and analysis of Mr. Maund, based on data available to him, at the time of writing. Mr. Maunds opinions are his own, and are not a recommendation or an offer to buy or sell securities. No responsibility can be accepted for losses that may result as a consequence of trading on the basis of this analysis.

Mr. Maund is an independent analyst who receives no compensation of any kind from any groups, individuals or corporations mentioned in his reports. As trading and investing in any financial markets may involve serious risk of loss, Mr. Maund recommends that you consult with a qualified investment advisor, one licensed by appropriate regulatory agencies in your legal jurisdiction and do your own due diligence and research when making any kind of a transaction with financial ramifications.

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