The Trend is Your Friend
From Rambus Weekend Report :
“I’ve been holding off on writing this Weekend Report for the US stock markets until I got just a little more confirmation that the next impulse move higher is underway. Last weeks price action is strongly suggesting that the nearly 2 year consolidation phase is drawing to a close. Lets say I’m seeing some green shoots sprouting up in many different areas of the markets.
Most investors rely on the fundamentals in which to make their trading decisions because that is how its been since the beginning of trading the markets. Fundamentals do have a place in investing in the long term trend but they usually lag at the beginning of a major turn in the markets. Normally when the fundamentals turn up at the bottom of a bear market the price action has already turned up many months in advance. The same thing is also true at tops. Before the fundamentals turn down the smart money has already gotten out while those looking at the fundamentals are left holding the bag.
If what I’m seeing in the charts right now is correct then the Chartology is going to show you what the fundamentals will be like in 6 month or longer down the road. Most fundamentalist have been looking for the stock markets to crash based on their own interpretation of the fundamentals. At some point they will be right, but until then they have missed out on the biggest bull market in history which only comes around once or twice in a lifetime.
At this point in time Chartology is suggesting there will be some good fundamentals that will drive the stock markets higher over the next year or two. Right now investors who look at the fundamentals think that Europe and the emerging markets are on their death bed with no heartbeat, but the Chartology is strongly suggesting something entirely different is taking place. With weak energy prices and commodities in general that suggests a weak global economy which has only one direction to go which is down, but the Chartology is suggesting something else is brewing. We keep hearing that the Fed is going to blow another bubble in the money supply which is going to crash the markets this time, but this is the same story we’ve heard over the last 10 years. At some point the fundamentals are going to be correct, but at what point, one year, two years, five year maybe another ten years in the future? The fundamentals can’t tell you when that day of reckoning will come but Chartology will give you a much quicker heads up when some type of reversal pattern shows itself.
Keep in mind we still haven’t even seen the blow off phase in the stock markets yet which will be another good clue that the markets are becoming exhausted as everyone and their brother want in. If you were trading in the late 1990’s you know exactly what I mean. The pessimism right now with many investors is too strong for the bull market to end. When they finally relent and begin to turn bullish you will then know the bull market is living on borrowed time.”
“Generally the two weakest months in the stock markets are September and October with October being regarded as the crash month. This year all we heard was how the markets were going to crash in October and the new bear market would begin and the world as we knew it was going to come to an end according to the fundamentals. A funny thing happened on the way to the crash scenario, the SPX ended up making a new all time high”
“I’m just scratching the surface using charts to show you how the next impulse leg up is unfolding in the stock markets. I have some daily and weekly charts that I haven’t shown you yet that are strongly suggesting the breakout is underway. I realize that most only care about the PM complex but I believe that having some positions in both the stock markets and the PM complex is justified IMHO. I have many more charts that I will share with you in the Wednesday Report.”
All the best
Rambus
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