Stocks were up for options expiration last week, and new lows did not expand, suggesting this rally may have a bit more to run although indicators are overbought. PSCE may be a cutout low, and for speculators this is a good opportunity.
We note that the weekly stochastic is now overbought, above 80 and if it turns down, we will have both daily and weekly stochastics negative. Should this occur we would consider starting to move back into low volatility from our equally weighted RSP position. We will be watching the new lows numbers – if they start to expand, we would have concerns.
Transportation charts support the possibility of pullback and retest over the next few months. When we look at these European ETFs, they suggest that we should have European concerns. The real question is whether European growth and financial concerns will cause a drop in the Euro and a spike in the dollar.
The next daily stochastic signal, which will occur on a rollover and move below 80, should lead to a buy recycle, and we would wait to deploy significant new capital until that occurs.
The daily stochastic on SPY and QQQ have both gone into sell mode, suggesting momentum weakness Our tax loss list has been completed. Five stocks hit their trading targets, one Century Link (CTL) was stopped at breakeven.
We still believe the odds are we will have a retest but it may come later in the year, after more short-term topping action. While this area for REITs still is in a trading range, there are some signs in my accumulation models that suggest this year they could break out of this range and stage an advance.
Several indicators are now suggesting the market should pull back into the middle of next week, or possibly longer. The daily stochastic for GLD has gone negative, and the weekly is overbought and starting to turn down. GLD hit the resistance at 122 and gapped down from that area Friday.
On the upside, targets on SPY are 260, then 267 to sell, and on the downside, exceeding last week’s low would do it for me – and that number will go up over the next few weeks. From the standpoint of risk management this is a good situation and we would buy MLPs at this time.
The market should have more upside here, but cautious advisors should realize that a good pullback is likely after this rally runs its course. This move should take a few months to materialize, but ultimately, we should see UUP at 24.50 to 24.30.
A rally is possible that could carry SPY to 255 – 260 or so, but that caution is still warranted intermediate term. We publish our Tax Bounce list today.
We would still wait for a daily stochastic buy signal to commit big money to an advance. The concern with GLD is that our accumulation model has started to diverge such that we would take profits on the next weekly sell indication, and would take partial profits at the end of 2018, especially if 120 is exceeded.
Since we have failed buy signals on the daily and weekly stochastic, we remain concerned that the bottom of this correction is going to take more time and be more complex than many currently believe. We continue to think that rates will move up from this area, and this move may have served to move rates back into buy mode.
The market should move below Friday’s low before there is a chance for recovery. The FED meets this week regarding rates so there could be some volatility here, but we would assume that much of the rise in bonds expected after the meeting has taken place. It is interesting to look at UUP, DBB, and TLT together, as the potential exists for changes in all three of these markets, that may end up benefiting the stock market.
The action we are seeing in stocks is what I call “going aggressively nowhere”. If you want to position for a trading rally, probably the best instrument to use is RSP.
If IYT continues to do as badly the market is in trouble for the rest of the year. One concern we have is that the McClellan has moved up to “0” from oversold and the market has not rallied.
