Long Term Market Analysis: Bradley Turn Model $spy $ews

Drizzt: long term market analysis is a series once or twice a month where we take a look at longer term trends in the market to get our bearings right on the general direction of where market prices is going.

The price movement is mirroring that of 2011 second half of the year. Lots of bad news, lots of whipsaws. This makes life for investors difficult.

Weekly S&P500 and STI

The long term indicator we use is the cross over between the 17 week EMA and the 43 week EMA. A cut of the 17 week EMA below the 43 week EMA from above signifies an underweight and risk management position. A cut of the 17 week EMA above the 43 week EMA from below signifies an overweight position in equities.

Many would have thought that the Greece voting on June 17 would be the selling climax but markets have held up very well. The S&P 500 have put in higher lows and judging by the 13 week EMA have start to turn up diverging from the 34 week and 50 week EMA.

The US market in this trying time looks the best when you put them up against China’s slowdown, Europe’s woes and perhaps have caught many doom mongers off guard.

In contrast, while the US market made higher highs, the STI was not able to clear end 2010 highs. With the number of times the index tested the 3000 level, the bulls clear this level and might be in for more bullish times. As of now we got another bounce off 2700 which becomes a rather significant support.

I started experimenting a bit with the 13/34 week pairing instead of 17/43 week. Essentially I find the 17/43 to be slower but you get less whipsaw for highly volatile stocks or indexes such as gold and oil.

The weak STI shows a death cross, which indicates that you may want to clear some high beta stocks. With a nice 2% weekly bounce, my suggestion is wait to see what happens in the next 2 weeks. If the price fails to go above or stay above the tight band 2850-2880 and comes straight down, that is probably a strong indication the 13 or 17 week EMA will widen downwards versus the 34 or 43 week EMA.

Bradley Turn Dates

The Bradley model is a hocus pocus stock market indicator. It was invented by Donald Bradley in 1948 as part of the book “Stock Market Prediction – The Planetary Barometer and How to Use It”. I wouldn’t even call it Technical Analysis but group them together with Feng Shui prediction as it is based on planetary movement.

The thing about these models is that they may sound out of these world but like Feng Shui, I believe they have influence on how things revolves in this world.

Here are the Bradley Turn Dates for 2011:

The magnitude of the up and downs are not as important as the turns. It makes a few minor turns but also what he thinks are major turns. These would be market in bold

I marked the major turns in red dots.

Here are the Bradley turn dates 2010:

Probably not as accurate as we would like

Here are the 2012 Bradley turn dates

And the year up till now

Interesting hocus pocus! So based on these turns this melt up may last till July 28 and from then onwards we will endure 4 months of downwards whip saw.

Caveat: I don’t have a long track record studying these turns, my gut feel is that there are many failure points and using this for trading can be suicidal. But you may want to entertain yourself by keeping watch of it to see if what is predicted based on this model comes through.

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