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This might be the top of a bear market rally indicator, but I don’t care. No charts here indicate negativity.

There are a lot of price actions that look like they will break down but turn out to be mere consolidation. Would this time be similar as well?

3-month consumer sentiment since 1960s and the corresponding price action on the S&P 500.

Seth Golden provides the data of what happens after stocks as a basket corrected downwards but rebounded at least back to 50% of the fall.

Sentiment Trader shows us the historical return after the following sequence:

  1. A 20% drop
  2. 90% of the S&P 500 members close above their 50-day moving average

Short-term results are a bit mixed, but the returns can be astounding longer term. That is… if you ignore the Great Depression periods.

Strategas reviews how this general upward shift in stocks occurred during two more recent bears.

Seth presented something slightly different:

  1. The percentage of S&P 500 stocks that are above their 50-day moving average goes below 20%
  2. Then the percentage of stocks that are above their 50-day moving average goes above 90%

Grant Hawkridge show us a similar percentage of stocks above the 50-day moving average, but instead of S&P 500, this is the broader stocks listed on the NYSE. He also showed us the negative thrust as well. I think this chart probably shows how noisy it can be to decipher how the market would go purely based on one signal. There are a lot periods you would sell out early, purely based on these signals.

New high on the Advance and Decline line, but that was five days ago.

Given signal metrics might not work all the time. Usually, it may be better to reflect upon a broad range to get a sense of whether the market structure is improving or not so much out of the woods yet. If we review them this way, there are more positive signs.

Many questioned whether this upward move was a resumption or a bear market rally. The data shows that if this is a bear market rally, what we just had would be the most significant bear market rally after their drawdowns. We are not saying this cannot be the most significant but if it is this time it will be unprecedented.

A review of similar retracement during the COVID period.

A breadth thrust is a sudden shift in the number of stocks that are declining and advancing within a short period. The number of stocks that advance usually has to outnumber those that are declining by two or two and a half times over a short five to ten-day period.

It is a fancy way of saying the rate of change.

In this chart, Willie showed up not about breadth thrusts but a sudden shift in 40-day momentum (momentum thrust). This does generate a few signals over the past 42 years. But if we overlay the momentum change with periods with breadth thrust, we realize that they may filter out some of the signals generated during bear market rallies.

Here are the subsequent returns followed by this momentum thrusts.

This chart builds upon the previous by showing the average return whether we overlay with breadth thrust on the momentum indicator or not.

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Monday 5th of September 2022

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Kyith

Tuesday 6th of September 2022

thanks

Revhappy

Saturday 27th of August 2022

Well well, Powell just thrust his big hammer on the markets and crashed it. All the charts can go for a toss. Charts are just history and they have no utility for the future. If chart really could predict anything, it would be easy to make money in the markets.

Sinkie

Sunday 21st of August 2022

Yup, my bunch of breadth, breadth thrust, +ve medium-term oscillator divergences, medium-term momentum indicators still intact from late-June. Extreme -ve sentiments indicators have of course largely disappeared from May/June period.

Some people are concerned about missing the first 20% gains or stocks are now expensive, but miss the potential 100% to 300% over the next few years or decade.

Anyway every investor, dog, cat, rat, cockroach are expecting a big crash in Oct. Not so sure if it'll happen when everybody is expecting it, but if so I'll be using up the rest of my warchest.

Revhappy

Tuesday 6th of September 2022

@Kyith, So this article actually marked the top of the bear market rally right? So what is the point? We should have sold and not bought right?

Kyith

Tuesday 30th of August 2022

yup

Revhappy

Sunday 21st of August 2022

But after a 20% upmove if we buy now, is it not a bit ironic? We wait for a 20% upmove means we missed 20% if the gains.

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