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Weekly Market Summary
By Urban Carmel | May 7, 2017
Summary: US equities rose for a third week in a row, to new all-time highs. Trend persistence like this normally leads to higher highs in the weeks ahead. It's true that volatility has dropped to significant lows and that volatility risk is to the upside. But timing this "mean reversion" is tricky: SPX could rise several percent before VIX pops higher. It's not a stretch to say that US equities have been focused on this weekend's French election the past several weeks; there is, therefore, a "sell the news" event risk to be on the watch out for.
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Trend
1. NDX and COMPQ made new all-time highs (ATH) again this week. SPX made a new ATH on a closing basis, eclipsing the prior high from March 1. The primary trend is higher.
2. SPX ended the week overbought (as measured by the daily RSI(5)). Upwardly trending markets are partially defined by their ability to become and stay overbought. This is a positive sign so long as it persists.
3. After becoming overbought, the rising 13-ema is normally the approximate first level of support on weakness. This moving average has not been touched in the past two weeks, a positive sign of trend persistence. That level is approximately 2380 (a chart on this is here).
4. SPX has now risen 3 weeks in a row. This is a positive sign of momentum. SPX has a strong tendency to make a higher high after rising 3 weeks in a row (blue lines in the chart below).
5. All of the above said, markets undulate higher. Even the most persistent trends suffer setbacks, however temporary. The current uptrend is now one of the three longest since the low in 2009; if past is prologue, a 5% correction is odds-on by the end of June. That should be the expectation of swing traders heading into summer. Read last week's post on this here. Enlarge any chart by clicking on it. . .
http://fat-pitch.blogspot.com/2017/05/weekly-market-summary_7.html#more
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By Urban Carmel | May 7, 2017
Summary: US equities rose for a third week in a row, to new all-time highs. Trend persistence like this normally leads to higher highs in the weeks ahead. It's true that volatility has dropped to significant lows and that volatility risk is to the upside. But timing this "mean reversion" is tricky: SPX could rise several percent before VIX pops higher. It's not a stretch to say that US equities have been focused on this weekend's French election the past several weeks; there is, therefore, a "sell the news" event risk to be on the watch out for.
* * *
Trend
1. NDX and COMPQ made new all-time highs (ATH) again this week. SPX made a new ATH on a closing basis, eclipsing the prior high from March 1. The primary trend is higher.
2. SPX ended the week overbought (as measured by the daily RSI(5)). Upwardly trending markets are partially defined by their ability to become and stay overbought. This is a positive sign so long as it persists.
3. After becoming overbought, the rising 13-ema is normally the approximate first level of support on weakness. This moving average has not been touched in the past two weeks, a positive sign of trend persistence. That level is approximately 2380 (a chart on this is here).
4. SPX has now risen 3 weeks in a row. This is a positive sign of momentum. SPX has a strong tendency to make a higher high after rising 3 weeks in a row (blue lines in the chart below).
5. All of the above said, markets undulate higher. Even the most persistent trends suffer setbacks, however temporary. The current uptrend is now one of the three longest since the low in 2009; if past is prologue, a 5% correction is odds-on by the end of June. That should be the expectation of swing traders heading into summer. Read last week's post on this here. Enlarge any chart by clicking on it. . .
http://fat-pitch.blogspot.com/2017/05/weekly-market-summary_7.html#more
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