Bitcoin is entering the Dead Zone
by Chart School - January 20th, 2019 3:12 pm
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Bitcoin and the technology boom of 1990′s have so much in common, you would think they are twins!
Previous Post: Bitcoin is so like 1979 silver
The chart below shows how similar each story is.
Mr Market knows this, therefore the desire to enter this market is low, and lower prices will plaque Bitcoin for the next 18 months at least. The supply of coins into this market will continue, and prices will continue to fall, there may be bear market rallies along the way, and the good news is the patient (yip that word) long term investors will have the chance to accumulate coins at pre 2017 bubble launch zones (massive support zones).
The first massive bubble can be tagged as the ’NEW IDEA CONCEPT’ rally, the next rally will be its ‘USE CONCEPT’ move. Those coins or tokens which do not attract a market use will fade away into history.
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There is a powerful force under the bitcoin market, this has been proved by massive money turning up during climactic sell offs. It is our view Bitcoin will not go to ZERO, however it may go to massive support zones and slump around for some time. The internet is still using a fiat payment system which travels through many banks (and fees associated with it) therefore the true internet money has yet to be solidified. Bitcoin (and Litecoin [in our view]) are heavy weight contenders!
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Investing Quote…
..“The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions
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Weekly Market Recap Jan 13, 2019
by Chart School - January 14th, 2019 5:14 am
Courtesy of Blain.
In last week’s recap we asked: “Has the Fed solved all the market’s problems in 1 speech?”
Thus far the market says yes! As Guns n Roses preached – all we need is a little “patience”. Four up days followed by a nominal down day Friday had the market following it’s normal pattern the past nearly 30 years – jumping whenever the Federal Reserve hints (or essentially says outright) it is here for the markets. And in case you missed it the prior Friday, Chairman Powell came back out Thursday to reiterate the news – so…so… so… patient!
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell reinforced that message Thursday during a discussion at the Economic Club of Washington where he said that the central bank will be “flexible” and “patient” on the monetary policy.
The minutes from the recent Federal Reserve meeting were likewise “dovish”:
The release of Fed minutes revealed that some central-bank officials hard reservations about an interest-rate increase last month due to market volatility, though policy makers voted unanimously in favor of the move. They also recommended the Fed should be “patient” and stressed that “a relatively limited amount of additional tightening” is appropriate.
“The backdrop for stocks is positive, with earnings growth still projected to be healthy, while the Fed looks like it is pausing,” Michael Arone, chief investment strategist for State Street Global Advisors, told MarketWatch.
“Stocks are loving that central bank policy appears to be in an ultra-dovish mode,” wrote Edward Moya, chief market strategist at Oanda, in a note. “Inflation is low and under control and the main catalyst for the Fed’s ability to be patient.”
In economic news ISM services slowed much like manufacturing did the prior week with a reading of 57.6 from 60.6 in November – that is still highly expansionary.
For the week the S&P 500 gained 2.5% and the NASDAQ 3.5%.
Here is the 5 day weekly “intraday” chart of the S&P 500 … via Jill Mislinski.
The
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Cycle moves to profit from in 2019
by Chart School - January 13th, 2019 4:14 pm
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Every thing has a cyclical manner, some more than others. And when price and the cycle runs together, it great to be in it for the ride!
Of course fundamentals are the reason for a price move, yet the laws of nature seems to co ordinate fundamentals, price and time together, hence the outcome can be seen via a sine wave cycle.
If you use some math called 'Bartels' (more here) you can scan many sine waves periods to see if they fit into your price time series, each time series will have it's own characteristics, some cycles will be a better with either a daily, weekly or monthly periods. Back testing the cycle is critical, as cycles do come into form and fall out of form, but over time they do add to the investors arsenal while working out the next risk reward price move.
Consider these possible big movers in 2019.
Chart: Gold stocks to gold.
Chart: USD or DXY index.
Chart: Crude oil
There are some big moves coming in 2019, cycles help the investor judge each one.
Investing Quotes:
.."I have yet to find a man, in or out of Wall Street, who is able to make money in (markets) continuously or uninterruptedly. Like anyone else, I have good and bad periods."..
Richard D Wyckoff
..“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria.”..
John Templeton
.."Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery"..
Spike Milligan
…“To me, the 'tape' is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!”…
Martin Zweig
.."The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them"
Peter Lynch
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Kendall and Hochberg: Interest Rates Win Again as Fed Follows Market
by Chart School - January 7th, 2019 5:21 pm
Kendall and Hochberg: Interest Rates Win Again as Fed Follows Market
By Elliott Wave International
Most economists and financial analysts believe that central banks set interest rates.
For more than two decades, Elliott Wave International has tracked the relationship between interest rates set by the marketplace and interest rates set by the U.S. Federal Reserve and found that it's actually the other way around--the market leads, and the Fed follows.
The latest Federal Reserve rate decision on December 19 brought the usual breathless anticipation. Confusion reigned as the U.S. president as well as a former Fed board member publicly urged the U.S. central bank not to raise rates and many wondered if the Fed would "rescue" investors with a surprise decision to leave them unchanged. The Fed, however, did what it almost always does: it brought its rate in line with market rates.
The Fed increased its federal funds rate a quarter-point from 2.25% to 2.50%. As shown by the dashed line in Figure 1, the Fed's move followed a rise in the six-month U.S. Treasury bill yield from 2.36% to 2.56% and an increase in the three-month U.S. Treasury bill yield from 2.18% to 2.42% since the prior Fed rate hike on September 26. So, market rates remain nearly undefeated when it comes to predicting what the Fed's actions will be.
Figure 1
Figure 2, a longer term version of the same relationship, is from The Socionomic Theory of Finance by Robert Prechter. It shows the federal funds rate as set by the Fed and the market-set three-month U.S. Treasury bill yield back to early 2000. This history shows that the T-bill market moves first and the Fed's interest-rate changes follow. As a result, no one monitoring the Fed's decisions can predict when T-bill rates will change, but anyone monitoring the T-bill rate can predict when the Fed's rates will change. We demonstrated this ability in August 2007 by predicting that the Fed was on the cusp of lowering its federal funds rate dramatically. Figure 2 shows the timing and its aftermath.
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Weekly Market Recap Jan 6, 2019
by Chart School - January 7th, 2019 2:04 am
Courtesy of Blain.
It was another volatile week with big swings especially Thursday and Friday but the new Federal Reserve Chairman finally bowed to pressure from the investor class and went very DOVISH in comments Friday, stoking the type of rallies we’ve seen for decades now on the back of words by Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen, et al. Ironically the guy was sitting next to Yellen and Bernanke while making these comments…
“We don’t believe that our issuance is an important part of the story of the market turbulence that began in the fourth quarter of last year. But, I’ll say again, if we reached a different conclusion, we wouldn’t hesitate to make a change,” Powell said. “If we came to the view that the balance sheet normalization plan — or any other aspect of normalization — was part of the problem, we wouldn’t hesitate to make a change.”
Thursday’s swoon was due to guidance by Apple (AAPL) as the company’s words signaled the fear of many market watchers about a global slowdown, especially in China. This led to the worst day for Apple since 2013.
Before we move on to the week, taking a moment to assess 2018 the returns were -6.2% for the S&P 500 and -3.9% for the NASDAQ.
A very interesting statistic: 2018 was the first year since 1948 (!!) that the S&P 500 finished negative after finishing up in each of the first 3 quarters. For the NASDAQ it was the first time since 1987 (which was a bloody October).
In economic news ISM manufacturing tumbled dramatically from a reading of 59.3 in November to 54.1 in December. Wow. Any reading over 50 still signals expansion but that’s quite a haircut in 30 days. Expectations were for a reading of 57.0.
On a brighter front, although it’s usually a lagging indicator when the economy turns – the government reported job gains of 312,000 well in advance of expectations of 182,000. The unemployment rate did rise 0.2% but that was mostly…
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Bitcoin, How do they get those $50k forecasts?
by Chart School - January 6th, 2019 6:10 pm
Courtesy of Read the Ticker.
Popular securities are controlled by long term price channels.
More from RTT Tv
Bitcoin chart from the video.
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Here is the Apple Inc chart within the video.
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Fundamentals are important, and so is market timing, here at readtheticker.com we believe a combination
of Gann Angles,
Cycles,
Wyckoff and
Ney logic
is the best way to secure better timing than most, after all these methods have been used successfully for 70+ years. To help you applying Richard Wyckoff and Richard Ney logic
a wealth of knowledge is available via our RTT Plus membership.
NOTE: readtheticker.com does allow users to load objects and text on charts, however some annotations are by a free third party image tool named Paint.net
Investing Quote…
..”After exhaustive researches and investigations of the known sciences, I discovered that the Law of Vibration enabled me to accurately determine the exact points to which stocks or commodities should rise and fall within a given time. The working out of this law determines the cause and predicts the effect long before the Street is aware either.”..
William D Gann
…”This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President Woodrow Wilson signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.”…
Charles August Lindbergh Snr
..”October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”..
Mark Twain
..”If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks”..
John (Jack) Bogle
Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.
Bruce Kovner
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Big Profits from Big Channels
by Chart School - January 2nd, 2019 1:20 pm
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Big profits come from big swings within the long term channels.
Here are the big channels for gold (GLD) and Dow Jones (INDU).
Readtheticker has price data for 100+ years for the important securities.
The red arrows are points of interest.
Gold holds support, demand present.
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Gold first attempt was a fade, now a chance to break upper blue channel.
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Dow hits green upper outer channel, awesome!
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Dow double top, or double failure to get over upper green channel forces profit taking. Of course after Mr Powell makes interest rate noise. support from red channel lines. Will it hold as it has before!
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Fundamentals are important, and so is market timing, here at readtheticker.com we believe a combination
of Gann Angles,
Cycles,
Wyckoff and
Ney logic
is the best way to secure better timing than most, after all these methods have been used successfully for 70+ years. To help you applying Richard Wyckoff and Richard Ney logic
a wealth of knowledge is available via our RTT Plus membership.
NOTE: readtheticker.com does allow users to load objects and text on charts, however some annotations are by a free third party image tool named Paint.net
Investing Quote…
..”I believe that uncontrolled basic emotions are the true and deadly enemy of the speculator. That hope, fear, and greed is always present, these emotions sit on the edge of the psyche, waiting on the sidelines, waiting to jump into the action.”..
Jesse Livermore
After a question on how to become a better investor professional
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Weekly Market Recap Dec 30, 2018
by Chart School - December 30th, 2018 3:34 pm
Courtesy of Blain.
Hello readers – please take 30 seconds and complete our 2018 Market Recaps Reader Survey – it’s just a few questions and lets us know how we are doing. Thank you!
In last week’s recap we wrote:
“All the charts continue to point to bad signs – that said in the near term the market is EXTREMELY oversold and vicious rallies can and do happen within downtrends but aside from the nimblest of traders it remains a time of caution. Maybe Santa can bring some rallying this week.”
and
“Again let me say we are VERY oversold short term so a violent oversold rally could occur at any time.”
Indeed we saw that with a vicious rally Wednesday – in fact the first 1000 point move in the DJIA in history. Since we prefer % gains, Wednesday’s rally was the best for the major indexes since March 23, 2009. For those with very short time spans and nimble fingers the selloff Monday – on top of what was rarely seen oversold conditions – was a nice short term buying opportunity for a quick in and out trade. That said we are nowhere near out of the woods – the rubber band had simply gone too far one way and when that happens the snap back is often furious. Thursday was another wickedly volatile day with the intraday action (heaving selling until the closing 90 minutes when another giant rally occurred). Stable markets are relatively calm – this is not that.
Speaking of volatility:
The Thursday turnabout was the largest such swing for the S&P 500 since May 25, 2010, and the largest for the Nasdaq since Nov. 18, 2008.
Was that “the bottom” – you never know until after the fact – but there is a lot of work for bulls to do to prove it was.
“Such rallies are not uncommon in troubled times, and we have experienced many of them in past bear markets. To call for
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RTT browsing latest..
by Chart School - December 25th, 2018 6:11 am
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Please review a collection of WWW browsing results.
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Comment: Come on! Spooky or what!
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Comment: Recession warnings grow, this indicator rarely gets it wrong!
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Comment: @nd Qtr Money managers adjusting their books, TIPS, US CPI and USDJPY all positive for gold, watch July
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Comment: 2018 vs 2000, the sudden drop is a worry!
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Comment: Screwed:For the sake of the market – and Trump’s sense of S&P500-defined self-worth – MS better be wrong, because if resilient tech stocks are what has kept US equity market above water so far even as the rest of the world has slumped, then a tech crash may be all that it takes to launch the next recession.
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Weekly Market Recap Dec 23, 2018
by Chart School - December 23rd, 2018 11:20 pm
Courtesy of Blain.
Another disaster week for the markets, and one of the worst this writer can remember since the financial crisis. Indeed this was the worst one week performance for the S&P 500 since 2011 and NASDAQ since October 2008! Not even a more “dovish” Fed could save it Wednesday; definitely a change of character. All the charts continue to point to bad signs – that said in the near term the market is EXTREMELY oversold and vicious rallies can and do happen within downtrends but aside from the nimblest of traders it remains a time of caution. Maybe Santa can bring some rallying this week.
The Fed announced its fourth interest-rate increase of the year, hiking the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, and deepened those losses during a press conference where Chairman Powell explained the decision and accompanying forecasts. The central bank now pencils in two rate hikes in 2019, not the three moves seen in September, and it still forecasts just one more hike for 2020.
Of particular concern was Powell’s discussion of the Fed’s quantitative tightening program, which is now removing $50 billion of federal government debt and mortgage bonds from the central bank’s balance sheet. Powell reiterated in his news conference that balance-sheet reduction would remain on “autopilot,” suggesting that even if the U.S. economy deteriorates significantly, as many market participants are predicting will happen next year, financial conditions will nevertheless become tighter month-by-month.
“The immediate market reaction has been that the statement is less dovish than anticipated,” said Steven Blitz, chief U.S. economist at TS Lombard. “Perhaps people had unrealistic expectations about what the Fed would say.”
“I would characterize the Fed’s statement as dovish, but perhaps not as dovish as the market hoped,” said Peter Berezin senior vice president of global investment strategy at BCA research.
Economic news was not market moving so we’ll ignore it.
If you care about “bear market” definitions (which are a bit silly) –…
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