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Stock Market is Making a Sharp Rally After a Sharp Drop. What’s Next?

Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018 Oct 18, 2018 - 12:39 PM GMT

By: Troy_Bombardia

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Today’s big bounce has some people comparing the current market environment to October 2014, when the stock market dropped quickly and surged back to new all-time highs quickly.


The key point to remember is that:

  1. The medium term risk:reward is bullish
  2. The stock market usually (but not always) retests its lows.

Focus on the medium-long term.

With that being said, let’s get into quantifying and examining the stock market’s recent price action.

The stock market’s sharp reversal after a sharp drop

The stock market fell more than -2% for 2 consecutive days last week (Wednesday & Thursday), and then it rallied more than +2% today.

This is what happens next to the S&P 500 when it falls more than -2% for 2 consecutive days, then rises >2% in 1 day within the next 3 days.

As you can see, this tends to happen at the bottom of bear markets or big 14%+ declines. The only other time it happened after a smaller decline was this March 2018 at the stock market’s bottom.

You can see that even in this case, the S&P retested its lows before heading higher.

Another way to examine the stock market’s sharp reversal

The stock market fell more than -6% in the past 1 month after making a new all-time high (using daily CLOSE $), and today rallied more than 2%.

Here’s what happens next to the S&P 500 (historically) when it falls more than 6% from an all-time high in the past month, and then rallies >2% in 1 day.

Note that the S&P’s median drawdowns in the next 2-3 months is more than -3%, which supports the case for a retest.

However, what’s more interesting is that when this happens, the S&P goes up 3 months later 88% of the time. Even in the worst case scenarios (2000 and 2007 tops), the stock market still bounced. Bear markets don’t go down in a straight line.

Oversold bounce

And lastly, the S&P’s short term momentum (RSI 5) has bounced back from being extremely oversold.

The S&P’s 5 day RSI went from being below 4 to above 40 in less than 1 week. Historically, it had a median drawdown over the next week of -1.2%

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By Troy Bombardia

BullMarkets.co

I’m Troy Bombardia, the author behind BullMarkets.co. I used to run a hedge fund, but closed it due to a major health scare. I am now enjoying life and simply investing/trading my own account. I focus on long term performance and ignore short term performance.

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