The Morning Call
12/9/16
The
Market
Technical
The indices
(DJIA 19614, S&P 2246) continued their upward moment on huge volume. Breadth weakened slightly, but remains
solidly in overbought territory. The
VIX (12.4) rallied in the second up day in a row, but remained below its 200 day
moving average (now resistance) below its 100 day moving average (now
resistance) and within a short term downtrend. This pin action suggests that investors are as
busy buying insurance as they are buying stocks, a sign of waning confidence.
The Dow ended
[a] above on its 100 day moving average, now support, [b] above its 200 day
moving average, now support, [c] in a short term uptrend {18150-20200}, [c] in
an intermediate term uptrend {11613-24463} and [d] in a long term uptrend
{5541-20148}.
The S&P
finished [a] above its 100 day moving average , now support, [b] above its 200
day moving average, now support, [c] within a short term uptrend {2118-2462},
[d] in an intermediate uptrend {2000-2602} and [e] in a long term uptrend {881-2419}.
The long
Treasury (118.9) fell 1%, closing below its 100 day moving average (now
resistance), below its 200 day moving average (now resistance), below a key
Fibonacci level and in a very short term downtrend. The question remains, will it challenge the
lower boundary of its short term trading range (117.3) and the lower boundary of
its intermediate term trading range (115.3) or is it attempting to build a
base? (maybe both?) Too soon to know.
GLD fell, ending
below its 100 day moving average (now resistance), below its 200 day moving
average (now resistance), below the lower boundary of its short term downtrend
and back below at a key Fibonacci level---but barely. That leaves open the question as to whether or
not it is stabilizing.
The dollar popped,
finishing right on the upper boundary of its short term trading range. So the challenge of that boundary is back
on. It remains in a strong very short
term uptrend and well above its 100 and 200 day moving averages.
Bottom line: the
upside momentum continues. Supported by
incredible volume and very strong breadth, the indices seem increasingly likely
to challenge the upper boundaries of their long term uptrends---with the caveat
that the extraordinary volume could be a sign of a speculative blow off.
Yesterday’s pin
action in TLT, GLD and the dollar was a bit of cognitive dissonance in the
midst of their attempts to stabilize following big directional moves. Follow through.
The
incredible shrinking life of Market crashes (short):
Fundamental
Headlines
Yesterday
was another slow one for US economic releases.
Just a single datapoint---weekly jobless claims declined less than
expected.
Overseas,
things were a bit more lively. November
Chinese exports and imports improved slightly and revised third quarter
Japanese GDP was much lower than originally reported.
***overnight,
November Chinese PPI was much stronger than anticipated while CPI was up
slightly.
In addition:
(1)
the British parliament voted to proceed with Brexit by
March 31, 2017. I have opined that I couldn’t
imagine a country reclaiming its sovereignty as a negative. Of course, that is a political judgment, not
an economic one. As to the latter, there
are lots of opinions, ranging from dire too optimistic about the Brexit’s
impact. I don’t think that anyone has a
clue about what the economic effects will be.
But the point here is that this shouldn’t be dismissed until we do know.
(2)
the ECB surprised everyone by announcing that it will
begin tapering its bond buying program.
Of course, it won’t happen for a while; and there were enough ‘on the
other hands’ in the narrative of the announcement to give it plenty of excuses
to not taper. Indeed, some analysts
called it a ‘dovish (non) taper’. In
other words, an extension of the standard central bank double speak that we
have grown to love.
(3)
the Chinese imposed additional restrictions on currency
transactions. The struggle is to relieve
the downward pressure on the yuan. The
effect on the rest of the globe is a tightening in money supply.
Bottom line:
seasonal factors (Santa Claus rally) are adding fuel to the enthusiasm spawned
by the Trump election/GOP sweep, which probably means everything will be coming
up roses until, at least, the turn of the year.
That is good news for the 50% of my portfolio that is invested. The other 50% won’t be going up; but it also
lets me sleep not having to worry about an extremely overvalued Market.
To
repeat a prior thought: if you are a trader (which I am not), I would play this
rally with a Market ETF (VYM, VIG) using a very tight stop.
The
latest on valuations (medium and a must read):
My
thought of the day: many fully invested investors right now are attributing their
success to their talent or innate abilities, failing to give enough credit to
luck. This is the same group of folks
that when the Market gets hit, blame their losses on bad luck versus their lack
of talent or innate abilities. The truth
is that right now, a fully invested investor is most likely extremely lucky. Why push luck?
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