The market has yet to extend its long term uptrend into the sixth calendar year.
Currently, after December’s all time high, it is already in its sixth year having lasted 68 months.
Calendar years, however, have more of a significance in OEW terms.
Historically, there have been numerous bull markets lasting 1-to-4 calendar years.
* Three including this one, lasting 5 years * One lasting 8 years * One lasting 13 years * None lasting 6 or 7 years
With the month of January now in the books, and no new highs, our next long term price projection remains on hold.
While our long term indicators suggest we have not even reached a Primary wave III high for this market, let alone a bull market high.
We think it is prudent to at least entertain the Primary III count.
History has shown that no indicators are perfect, and this market has been full of surprises since it began in 2009.
With this in mind we have updated the DOW charts to display a potential Primary III completed at the early December high.
Then we have a Major wave a down into the mid-December low, followed by an irregular Major wave b into the late-December high, with now Major c underway.
Should this count prove to be correct, which we give a 20% probability, we would expect this downtrend to take the DOW to at the least the October low at 15,855.
Our main count, with a 70% probability, is still carried on the SPX/NDX charts.
This count suggests Primary III is still unfolding, and the market is currently downtrending in Major wave 4.
When the downtrend concludes, a simple or subdividing Major wave 5 should take the market to all time new highs.
Then after a Primary III high, a Primary IV correction will occur before Primary V takes the market yet again to new highs.
This count also suggests this market has much further to go on the upside before the bull market concludes.