Cycles are still bullish, with the 6 month and 10-12 month cycles ideally due to top out concurrently in xxxx (subscriber version). The 6 month cycle projection is xxxx (subscriber version).
Cycle projections for short term cycles point to xxxx-xxxx (subscriber version). The 13 week cycle is just turning up. There’s no projection for it yet. I noted last week that, “A stronger period is due in the 13 week cycle beginning in mid June that should support reaching those targets, or more.”
2/16/21 Every week I run technical stock screens covering all NYSE and NASD stocks trading above $6 and averaging more than 1 million shares a day. This typically results in between 15 and 50 charts to review visually. I’m looking for low risk, high reward price structures, which I’m not smart enough to program into the screening process. But it’s ok. I like to look at charts.
Prices continued their rangebound churning last week. 2 picks dipped below their stops. Both were slightly profitable.
List performance slipped to an average of +1%, down from +2.4% the week before, on an average holding period of 14 days. The percentage change assumes cash trades, no margin, no options.
The stopouts left just 4 picks on the list. All are longs, and 3 look ok to hold, with stops adjusted based on trigger lines in the charts. Xxxx looks less favorable, so I have tightened the stop to near Friday’s low.
Withholding tax revenues rose sharply again in May (chart in subscriber version). Non withheld taxes also rose sharply. The economy is growing faster than the Fed would have you believe, and that the Wall Street mob seems to believe.
Revenue momentum is hot, hot, hot. But spending is hotter (table in subscriber version). The impact of economic stimulus will lead to economic overheating and embedded inflation.
Meanwhile, the Treasury’s bloated cash account is coming down slowly. To get to the level legally mandated by the budget law by the deadline (reported in subscriber version), the Treasury will need to continue T-bill paydowns. This will continue to provide a bid for both stock and bond prices.
But that will all reverse, and we know when. The Treasury’s excess cash will be gone. Enormous monthly deficits will then need to be fully funded by borrowing. Hundreds of billions in new Treasury debt will start hitting the market for months to come. The pressure on the markets will multiply instantly.
Both bond and stock prices would begin to decline rapidly. The Fed would be forced to act.
The media is reporting the Fed is thinking about getting ready to talk about tapering bond purchases. Forget about it. It’s ridiculous. When the Treasury gets down to its required cash level, not only will the taper talk masturbation end, but Fed yield control, with unlimited QE, would be in play.
A slow Fed response would come too late to prevent real, and possibly lasting, damage to market prices of stocks and bonds (Treasury yield and price charts in subscriber version).
Meanwhile the US Treasury has pumped $600 billion into the accounts of holders of expiring T-bills since late February. Those holders are mostly money market funds, but include dealers and other big institutions. Dealers and big investors deploy that cash to buy longer term Treasuries and, in some cases, stocks. More paydowns are coming. That’s short term bullish for both bonds and stocks.
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Stock prices are currently right in the middle of the channel surrounding the liquidity line in the Compositite Liquidity Chart (viewable in subscriber version). By this measure the market isn’t overbought, as so many bearish pundits are bellowing. Nor is it oversold. It’s just tracking the growth of systemic liquidity. Not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Goldilocks.
Gold’s intermediate term indicators remain bullish, and mining picks are fine.
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Our mining picks held their own last week, and we’re holding on to them this week. Here’s the list, with charts.
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Cycles are still bullish, with the 6 month and 10-12 month cycles apparently in trending mode. This means that there are neither price projections nor time guesstimates for those. In these circumstances we need to resort to trend following indicators.
Cycle projections are only available for short term cycles. There are no projections for cycles from 13 weeks to 10-12 months. We’re flying blind as to likely upside targets on those. Short term projections point to xxxx-xxxx (subscriber version) during June.
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2/16/21 Every week I run technical stock screens covering all NYSE and NASD stocks trading above $6 and averaging more than 1 million shares a day. This typically results in between 15 and 50 charts to review visually. I’m looking for low risk, high reward price structures, which I’m not smart enough to program into the screening process. But it’s ok. I like to look at charts.
The volatility subsided, but the range remained. 4 picks dipped below their stops. Were they too tight? Or is this the beginning of the end for the longs. Time will tell.
Meanwhile, list performance improved slightly to an average of +2.4%, up from +0.2% the week before, on an average holding period of 15 days, up from 10 days the week before. The percentage change assumes cash trades, no margin, no options.
The stopouts left just 4 picks on the list. All are longs, and all look ok to hold, with stops adjusted based on trigger lines in the charts. I added two more picks from Friday’s screen.
The balance between QE and Treasury supply will remain bullish through through xxxx (subscribers only). This should provide a boost for stocks. It should keep the Treasury selloff at bay for another month or two.
However, this is not as bullish as I first thought. It appears that around 75% of the T-bill paydowns are going to money market funds and other institutions who must hold short term instruments instead of lengthening maturities or buying stocks. So most of the cash from the paydowns is ending up in Fed RRPs.
Only about ¼ of the money has been used to buy stocks and bonds. So the effect has been muted. There’s no massive blowoff. Instead conditions lend themselves to a churning topping action lasting through xxxx (subscribers).
Short term indicators for gold have edged to the sell side. The 13-17 week cycles are due for consolidation. However, cycle projections still point higher. The 9-12 month and 15 month cycle indicators continue to signal upturns, but they need to cross their zero lines to suggest more upside.
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Our mining picks held their own last week, and we’re holding on to them this week. Here’s the list, with charts.
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As wild short term volatility chews up swing traders and spits them out, the market averages remain in an uptrend, and look poised to move higher. But fewer stocks will lead the way. Most may not participate. Technical Trader subscribers click here to download the complete report.
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