The bullish trend of $SPX remains intact. Having said that, the $SPX chart is extended (overbought), as are many other indicators. $SPX is nearly 60 points above its rising 20-day moving average. Hence a fairly sharp pullback of 60 or 70 points wouldn't change the trend, but it might be a bit shocking to the bulls.
February 2018 was a very nasty month for stocks. For some time, we have been mentioning the similarities between current action and that of late 2017 and early 2018: a long rally has taken place, accelerating in January; there have been multiple failed mBB sell signals; put-call ratios are extremely overbought; new highs have completely dominated new lows, etc. And others are watching this as well. In late January 2018, a number of sell signals occurred almost all at once: there was an mBB sell signal, breadth oscillator sell signals, equity-onlyput-call ratio sell signals, VIX began to rise, and new lows exceeded new highs. All of these occurred on or before February 1st, 2018. By February 2nd, the market was collapsing and by February 9th, 2018 – in a matter of just 5 trading days – the entire rally of over four months had been wiped out.
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The stock market continues its remarkable run, and it continues to look more and more like January 2018 every day. That's bullish news for the short term, but extremely negative news for the intermediate-term.
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The stock market continues to put on a tremendous display of bullishness. There was some brief but heavy selling in relation to the military action in Iraq, but most of the selling came in the overnight sessions and was largely reversed by the time the NYSE opened the next day.
With most of the major averages making new all-time highs, their charts remain bullish. There is support at 3190-3210. There is further support at 3150 and 3070.
There was wild overnight action during the night session on Tuesday January 7th. S&P futures dropped 54 points immediately after news that Iran had fired missiles at U.S. installations in Iraq. Obviously, prices have recovered since then, but perhaps we can get a glimpse into what might happen should a “real” decline of that magnitude take place.
Since we are at the inception of a new year and a new decade (if you adhere to the notion that the decade begins with 2020 and not 2021), it is sometimes useful to see how the patterns of previous years have played out. The top chart on the right is a composite of all years ending in ‘9.” The orange line shows how the “average” of all stock market years has performed. The Blue line depicts the performance only of years ending in ‘9,’ and you can see that it is strong. Typically there is a decline early in the year (January-February) and then it’s off to the races for the remainder of the year – with minor corrections in May-June and September-October. The year that just concluded (2019) didn’t fit that pattern exactly, but it was certainly a very bullish year (Compare the chart in Figure 1 on Page 1).
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Stocks backed off today, but the bull market is still intact so far. There is support on the $SPX chart at the various horizontal red lines in Figure 1. There isn't MAJOR support, though, until you get down to 3070.
Equity-only put-call ratios are at extremely low levels, due to heavy call buying during most of the recent three-month stock market rally. But they are not on confirmed sell signals yet.
