Monday, December 29, 2014

Dow Theory Update for December 29: Primary bull market for US Stocks reconfirmed





Precious metals (and their miners) trends unchanged


Very brief update, as time is in ultra short supply.

US STOCKS

I see on the charts that the Industrials, Transports and SPY have bettered their last recorded primary bull market closing highs. This means that the primary bull market has been unambiguously confirmed and that we can declare the hitherto ongoing secondary reaction as extinguished.

Here you have an updated chart. The blue horizontal lines represent the last recorded primary bull market closing highs which have been exceeded:

 
Primary bull market reconfirmed. Stocks "in the clear".

PRECIOUS METALS AND THEIR MINERS

Trends remain unchanged, which means:

For Gold and silver: Ongoing secondary (bullish) reaction within a primary bear market.

For their miners: Primary and secondary trend bearish.

Sincerely,
The Dow Theorist

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Dow Theory Update for December 24: Primary and secondary trends unchanged




Merry Christmas!


US stocks

The Industrials, Transports and SPY closed up. The Industrials are well above the last recorded primary bull market highs, whereas the SPY and Transports have not confirmed and remain below such highs.


The primary trend remains bullish, as explained here.


The secondary trend is bearish, as there is an ongoing secondary reaction, as explained here.


Gold and Silver


SLV and GLD closed up. The primary bear market was reconfirmed on October 3rd 2014, as GLD finally broke below the June 27th, 2013 primary bear market closing lows (something which SLV had already done on Sept 17, 2014). As lower lows have been confirmed, the primary bear market has been reconfirmed. 

For the reasons I explained here, and more recently here the primary trend remains bearish.

The secondary trend is bullish (secondary bullish reaction against the primary bear market), as explained recently here. Furthermore, SLV and GLD completed the setup for a primary bull market, as explained here.

In spite of the secondary bullish reaction, the primary trend remains bearish too.


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 bearish.

On a statistical basis the primary bear market for GLD and SLV is old. Two years have elapsed since the bear market signal was flashed. However, I am extremely skeptical as to the predictive power of statistics. I prefer price action to guide me, and the Dow Theory tells me that the primary trend remains bearish until reversed. When will this vicious bear market end? I don’t know, and I don’t need to know. I only know that the Dow Theory will see to my being informed punctually when a new primary bull market is born.

Gold and Silver miners ETFs (GDX and SIL)


As to the gold and silver miners ETFs, SIL and GDX closed up. The primary bear market was re-confirmed on October 27th, 2014 as explained here. The primary trend for SIL and GDX is clearly bearish, as was profusely explained here and here.

 
The secondary trend is bearish too, and no secondary reaction has been signaled yet.


Merry Christmas to you all,
The Dow Theorist

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Dow Theory Update: Setup for primary bear market in stocks completed today


The primary trend remains bullish, though.


US stocks

The Industrials, Transports and SPY closed up.

The SPY and Industrials have risen more than 3% from the secondary reaction lows. Since the rally from the lows took 2 days (one day would not be enough as per Schannep’s rules), US stocks set up for a primary bear market signal. To complete the primary bear market setup it was only necessary for one index to rally more than 3%. However, in this case, two indices have deigned to rally more than 3%.



Here you have the details of the rally:

INDUSTRIALS
 TRANSPORTS
        SPY
17778.15

8953.33

206.78
17068.87

8740.52

197.91





0.04155401

0.02434752

0.04481835

 
So now two things may happen:

1)     Stocks extend their gains and break up the last recorded primary bull market closing highs, in which case the primary bull market would be reconfirmed, and the current secondary reaction would be declared as extinguished (and hence, the secondary trend would be labeled as “bullish” too). The blue horizontal line on the chart below shows the relevant levels to be broken up.

2)     The SPY (which in this case has rallied more than 3%) together with other index (be it the Industrials or the Transports) violate the secondary reaction lows, in which case a primary bear market would be signaled. The red horizontal line on the chart below shows the relevant levels to be violated.


Two options left: Either primary bull market reconfirmed or primary bear market will be signaled

The primary trend remains bullish, as explained here.


The secondary trend is bearish, as there is an ongoing secondary reaction, as explained here.



Gold and Silver


SLV and GLD closed up. The primary bear market was reconfirmed on October 3rd 2014, as GLD finally broke below the June 27th, 2013 primary bear market closing lows (something which SLV had already done on Sept 17, 2014). As lower lows have been confirmed, the primary bear market has been reconfirmed. 

For the reasons I explained here, and more recently here the primary trend remains bearish.

The secondary trend is bullish (secondary bullish reaction against the primary bear market), as explained recently here. Furthermore, SLV and GLD completed the setup for a primary bull market, as explained here.


So now there are only two possibilities left:

          1) Either both SLV and GLD break above the secondary reaction highs, in which case a       primary bull market would be signaled.

  
          2) Or both SLV and GLD violate the last recorded primary bear market lows, in which case, the primary bear market would be reconfirmed.

 
 In spite of the secondary bullish reaction, the primary trend remains bearish too.


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 bearish.

On a statistical basis the primary bear market for GLD and SLV is old. Almost two years have elapsed since the bear market signal was flashed. However, I am extremely skeptical as to the predictive power of statistics. I prefer price action to guide me, and the Dow Theory tells me that the primary trend remains bearish until reversed. When will this vicious bear market end? I don’t know, and I don’t need to know. I only know that the Dow Theory will see to my being informed punctually when a new primary bull market is born.

Gold and Silver miners ETFs (GDX and SIL)


As to the gold and silver miners ETFs, SIL and GDX closed up. The primary bear market was re-confirmed on October 27th, 2014 as explained here. The primary trend for SIL and GDX is clearly bearish, as was profusely explained here and here.

 
The secondary trend is bearish too, and no secondary reaction has been signaled yet.


Sincerely,
The Dow Theorist