Dow Theory Update for September 6: Indecisive day. No changes in trends

 Precious metals modestly up.

Is a secular bull or bear market?

Doug Short has penned on Seeking Alpha a great article concerning secular bull and bear markets. You can find it here

Another great article by Doug Short concerning the current state of overvaluation of the stock market can be read here on Seeking Alpha:

Bottom line: I find Doug Short is one of the best analyists of the secular trend of the market.  I’d tentatively say that the secular trend of the market remains bearish. However, please bear in mind that our Dow Theory "flavor" (namely Schannep's/Rhea's) tends to spot cyclical bull market, and does not invest along the secular.

Stocks

The SPY closed modestly up. The Industrials and Transports closed down.

The primary trend is bullish, as explained here, and more in-depth here.

The secondary is bearish, which implies an ongoing secondary reaction against the primary bullish trend, as explained here.

Today’s volume was higher than yesterday’s. Since stocks closed up (for the SPY and Nasdaq), expanding volume has a bullish connotation, as higher prices were confirmed by volume.

Gold and Silver

SLV, and GLD closed up. For the reasons I explained here, I feel the primary trend remains bearish. Here I analyzed the primary bear market signal given on December 20, 2012. The primary trend was reconfirmed bearish, as explained here. The secondary trend is bullish (secondary reaction against the primary bearish trend), as explained here.

SIL and GDX closed up. SIL and GDX, unlike GLD and SLV, are unambiguously in a primary bull market under the Dow Theory, as explained here and here. The secondary trend is bullish as well.

Later today, I will post a new episode of the saga "Face off: Schannep versus classical Dow Theory", which you can find here. 

Here you have the figures for the SPY, GDX and SIL which represents the only markets with suggested open long positions.

 

DOW THEORY PRIMARY TREND MONITOR SPY
			SPY
Bull market started		06/24/2013	157.06
Bull market signaled		07/18/2013	168.87
Last close		09/06/2013	166.04
Current stop level: Bear mkt low			157.06
Unrlzd gain %	Tot advance since start bull mkt	Max Pot Loss %
-1.68%	5.72%	7.52%

 

DOW THEORY PRIMARY TREND MONITOR ETF SIL
			SIL
Bull market started		06/26/2013	10.59
Bull market signaled		08/14/2013	15.36
Last close		09/06/2013	15.29
Current stop level: Primary bear mkt low		06/26/2013	10.59
Unrealized gain %	Tot advance since start bull mkt	Max Pot Loss %
-0.46%	44.38%	45.04%
DOW THEORY PRIMARY TREND MONITOR ETF GDX
			GDX
Bull market started		06/26/2013	22.22
Bull market signaled		08/14/2013	28.7
Last close		09/06/2013	28.01
Current stop level: Primary bear mkt low		06/26/2013	22.22
Unrealized gain %	Tot advance since start bull mkt	Max Pot Loss %
-2.40%	26.06%	29.16%

Sincerely,

The Dow Theorist