Wednesday, December 28, 2016

IT'S ALL OVER -- RUN FOR YOUR MISERABLE LIVES

It sure looks like a failed 5th wave at SPX 2273.  I have us heading down to the 2035-2040 area on the SPX into the week of the Ascension of Donald John Trump.

Need some more spooky red candles in the days ahead.


The real fun begins February 1st when the Fed moneylenders shank and turn out the new fish on the cell block.  Then we will cross the 20% mark off the highs (1820 SPX) that declares the arrival of the Bear.

SPX 60 day with Bear count

Monday, December 26, 2016

In case the markets fall apart in 2017

I had better post these charts now before things get moving.

checkmate
We have a couple of days left for the funds to mark-to-market for 2016 bonuses.  Then the selling can commence at long last.  The triangle on the S&P back in November was a B-wave.

SPX 40D
The count since the 1810 lows is a mess, but there is an interesting symmetry if we can make a high at 2301 SPX this week.

SPX 1Y
After that, who cares.  Maybe it all comes off in the coming calendar year.  Everything.

SPX 3Y

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Anatomy of a thrift-store score

Just returned from my neighborhood Value Village this Sunday morning.  See if you can guess what I found.







It's an 8'6" Montague Flash bamboo fly rod from the 1940s!  It comes with a tough canvas case, and an extra tip section.  All ferrules and guides are rock solid.  I have modern Orvis reels and line that match its weight.

Whoever donated this rod, whoever's grandfather's estate this came from, out there in the aether, please know that I will give it loving care and maintenance, and that this rig will catch fish again, as soon as this next year.

I started tossing and tying the dry fly in the Midwest in my youth, catching bluegills and the occasional bass.  Once I could drive, I could get north of Green Bay to cold water streams like the Oconto River, to chase rainbow trout and stalk browns.  Now I live in the western WA, where the world is my oyster.  I think I could even catch oysters with this thing.

But I never thought I could own a bamboo rod, which new today cost as much as a used car.  Have we turned a new corner in Trump's America?  I think so.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

No shorting until Christmas

Well, just after Christmas.  FOMC excitement today was just part of a 4th wave retrace, which has room to run into this Friday.

C wave channel has us rolling over right at the 2300 mark on the SPX when we return from the Christmas break.  Bonuses will be secured, so what will be the point of lingering a moment longer in the bourse?

We may have a President Trump formally set by then, but his plans for massive fiscal stimulus may be DOA.  And then how in the world will we create fresh new debt and credit-money to keep the great ponzi going?

Merry Christmas!

SPX final ABC to new highs

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Friday, December 9, 2016

The best the bears can hope for ...

... would be a draw down into FOMC -- obvious rate hike -- and massive short-squeeze to finish the year.

SPX
But such a move would complete 5 waves of a megaphone C.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

End of December

That's about the next window to look for a "candidate top".  Oh, there have been so many!

The Fed hike next week is completely expected and will only retrace a bit of this final rally, taking us up again into year-end and the December New Moon.

Some day this war's gonna end.  And we will be there when it does.

SPX December snooze

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Charts 12-03: Italian referendum weekend

The ECB announced on Monday that in the event of the Italy referendum failing this weekend, that they would be ready to keep things stable with increased bond purchases.  So the market has been sanguine about this all week.  We haven't seen the march into hedges like VIX calls and volatility ETFs that preceded the Brexit vote.

the Fred Beckey

A "no" vote on the referendum essentially is the true beginning of the end of the EU, so I suspect that the reaction will not be so muted.  Of course, we don't want to see a lock-limit down on the overnight /ES Sunday, but a 30-handle gap open to the 2161 area of SPX would work nicely.  We would then sell off the entire week, eventually reaching an interim low at the December FOMC, for a couple of weeks of Santa rally.

But the larger goal for the next couple of months is to cross the big pink megaphone, then bounce into Spring with a phi retrace and backtest of the old rally channel.

Since the Donald won't be using the legacy media during his reign, I have added a free plug-in for his Twitter feed down the left panel.  A couple of ads are tacked onto the block, the impressions of which benefit the authors of the plug-in and not this blog.

I still can't believe that the financial press has advanced the idea that Trump spending will be inflationary.  If anything, you could start with the idea that they are taking a fiscal instead of a monetary route in all of this.  But the results will be the same, inescapable debt-deflation and an eventual spiral.  Globalism was the last act in a grand effort to expand credit, by exporting inflation throughout the world.  There is simply no easy or safe way to dismantle what we have built here.

SPX 12-03