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chainik

03/03/06 11:47 AM

#73517 RE: ajtj99 #73514

AJ, very nice post. IMO the next big move is down, the only question is when it starts. Two comments


1. The shape of the yield curve (Gross)

Simplifying the story: the shape of the curve does not reflect the health of economy and probably is a poor indicator of recession/slowdown.

<many of these flows coming back into U.S. financial markets come from non-economic agents, hush-hush euphemism for central banks. What this means is that these “agents” are less performance driven.....and more concerned with.....high levels of employment in their domestic economies>

http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Late+Breaking+Commentary/IO/2006/IO+02.2006.htm

2. Short position by commercials on S&P is not that extreme; when you put together minis and NDX, the overall picture is only slightly bearish. I think it was Shack who also pointed out that small traders have not joined the party; I agree with him.


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Burk

03/03/06 12:18 PM

#73524 RE: ajtj99 #73514

I don't have time to address each issue..nor do I desire, too....but..an opposite argument could easily be made for each point..or at least some of them...

For example,

"Record levels of inflows into equity funds not seen since
the 2001 summer highs and end of Feb. 2000 (Schwab,
10 days prior to the 2000 highs) are bullish regardless of
their contrarian effect in the past."

I read an article yeseterday that said this was the case back prior to 2000 and it began well before 2000...well before...record levels started before 2000...a couple of years before...

Final legs of bulls have extremes...

Yield curve inversion...same goes for that...I've seen different definitions, etc..and even if we have a recession down the line, we can still run up before that...

Lack of participation...when INTC gets slugged constantly with downgrades and everything else under the sun and it's not making new lows...that's not bearish to me...

When I look at the Comp to NDX ratio on stockcharts..it appears to me that it's the COMP that's not taking the lead...

SMH is holding steady in a few months consolidation...looking ready to lead the NDX back up...

Anyway, that's what makes horseraces...



We could,indeed, have a double top with some backfilling...before another leg up....doubt it, though..

However, I don't think we're going to have a huge correction go 1500 like you are saying...there's too much negativity out there....

Charts are merely a representation of market emotion and are a way of predicting the past for the most part, imo....





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LG

03/03/06 1:00 PM

#73529 RE: ajtj99 #73514

ajtj: WOW....

Heck, would someone get Chuck Norris over to the NASDAQ to crescent kick the leggs out from under GOOG...vbg

Sorry about that Chuck, just couldn't resist...LOL

LG aka Ultimate Fighting Championship figher L "Lighten" G...gg



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blacktruck

03/04/06 12:55 PM

#73613 RE: ajtj99 #73514

Just a question about point #8(post concerning mkt skepticism).........extremely large short position by commercials....

I am showing 53% short and 47 % long.....Am I looking at the wrong contract?

http://www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/SP.png