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COMMENTARY for Thursday
TODAY'S ACTION for Thursday
Rick's Picks for Thursday
I had thought the 1093.00 rally target furnished here yesterday would handle whatever silliness bub-bub-bubbled up. Apparently not. The number was the Hidden Pivot midpoint of the bullish pattern shown, and its breach portends more buying to its ‘D’ sibling at 1118.50. That number can be chiseled in stone, incidentally, since, as far as I can surmise, nothing short of a collision between Earth and an asteroid will prevent it from being reached. Since the trajectory of the rally is unlikely to be a straight line — especially with Monday’s highs in the way — turning the move into opportunity will be your task. I’d suggest betting the pass line in any case, since waiting to short the trend at 1118.50 with our customary three-tick stop-loss sounds so pat that I’d be heartbroken if it didn’t work perfectly.
A Hidden Pivot target at 10324 is equivalent to the one at 1118.50 that I’ve flagged today for the E-Mini S&P. If you’d like to try your luck shorting up there, the target can be interpolated and used in any way that suits you, although the Mini-Dow or perhaps the Diamonds would be the most direct play. You should calculate the Mini-Dow (YM) target yourself, though, since my publishing it here might compromise its usefulness. _______ UPDATE: The Indoos retreated after topping at 10315 — not quite close enough to the target to get us short.
An ostensibly “easy” rally target at 1236.20 has been so long in coming that it’s time to put it aside and focus on the corrections, just in case this mild weakness is about to turn into something worse. A major midpoint pivot at 1214.90 is still the key support to watch, although its breach, especially by just a few points or less, would not be significant. If the futures do fall, look for a minor HP support at 1219.75 to turn them around; otherwise, more weakness down to at least 1212.80 (or perhaps 1211.10) would become likely.
The downtrend from Tuesday’s 18.735 high is strongly impulsive on the hourly chart, having exceeded three external lows, so we should keep a close eye on things, especially if any minor corrective abc patterns that develop should exceed their c-d midpoints. Buyers would need to push the futures to at least 18.815 today to put bears on the defensive. There are no particularly promising corrective targets I can offer you at the moment — only a vague midpoint support at 17.865.
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Take any dozen good reasons for being bearish right now and they still don’t equal the bullishness of the chart shown. The undeniably compelling rally objective is 13085, a 4.8% move from current levels, and one can only surmise that the dusting the 12158 midpoint received on the last pullback (12/28) all but clinched a finishing stroke to the higher number. Moreover, it implies that bears shouldn’t get their hopes too high even if, in the next few days, the Dow plummets 324 points to retest the midpoint support. As of now, that would signal not weakness, but a screaming opportunity to get long. Hard to believe, really, but that’s what the charts say.
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No Escaping Deflation’s Fatal Drag on Economy
by Rick Ackerman on June 3, 2010 4:03 am GMT · 31 comments
Gotta love those inflationists! We enjoy getting in their faces now and then because their nutty ideas, particularly that inflation is worth worrying about at the moment, can only confuse and misdirect people who are struggling to sort out the facts for themselves. Imagine waiting…and waiting…and waiting for inflation to “break out,” as the inflationists have been doing all too patiently since 1991. That’s when the Fed put pedal to the metal to escape the drag of recession. At the time, virtually every monetarist in the land was predicting that a nasty inflationary spiral lay just ahead. All we got in the end was the kind of inflation that no one noticed, let alone complained about: asset inflation. Greenspan sealed his reputation as a bubblehead forever by finally noticing the bubble, although, to » Read the full article