So now we have a fiercely oversold market sparked by a Dow Theory non-confirmation.
This should revive bullish sentiments although I believe only sharp traders and speculators will profit from this “sudden” rally. As I see it, the bear is passing time and having a little fun with the stock market crowd. And all the time, the top of this rally from the June low grows bigger and bigger. By the way, now you see why I warned subscribers to avoid selling short. If you’re short, you can be killed by a rally of this intensity. – Richard Russell July 7th Dow Theory Letters
SENTIMENT POLLS GET THE BULLS EXCITED
Well, we had Doug Kass declare that the lows were already turned in and at the same time we received the Investors Intelligence poll showing that sentiment was at the lowest level since July 2009. Interestingly, back in July of last year, the S&P 500 was struggling at the 900 level! Anyway, the reality is that bulls still outnumber the bears— 37.0% (from 41.1%) versus 34.8% (from 33.3%). Believe it or not, the correction camp only has 28.2% in their ranks. – Full Rosenberg Report HERE
Todd Market Forecast for Wednesday July 7, 2010
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DOW + 274 on 2200 net advances
NASDAQ COMP +66 on 1350 net advances
SHORT TERM TREND Bullish
INTERMEDIATE TERM TREND Bearish
There were a few positive news items on Wednesday, but for most of the session, observers were remarking that the rally wasn’t being driven by anything in particular, as if that were a negative.
Actually, some of the best rallies come when everyone is scratching his or her head and can’t figure out why it’s happening. Today on CNBC, a lot of analysts were telling us that this is just a flash in the pan. We didn’t hear anyone say that it was time to get on board.
We have found that when 10 day RSI becomes oversold and curls up sharply, that it is normally an indication that the market wants to go higher although there have been a couple of recent failures. We can see this in the chart below. In other words, it’s not enough to be oversold, the market has to demonstrate that it can rally in an impressive manner. We would have preferred better volume, but it was better than yesterday’s.
We’re still in the grip of a pattern of declining tops and bottoms, but we’ll stick our neck out here a bit and move back to a bullish short term posture.
The dollar dropped and this helped gold, silver, copper and crude oil to a bounce. Bonds were down for the session.
BOTTOM LINE:
Our intermediate term systems are on a sell signal.
System 2 traders are in cash. Stay there on Thursday.
System 7 traders should stay in cash for now.
NEWS AND FUNDAMENTALS:
MBA purchase applications dropped 2.0%. This was less than last month’s drop of 3.3%. On Thursday we get jobless claims and crude oil inventories.
OTHER MARKETS
We’re on a buy for bonds as of May 4.
We’re on a sell for the dollar and a buy for the euro as of June 15.
We’re on a sell for gold as of July 1.
We’re on a sell for silver as of July 1.
We’re on a sell for copper as of April 27.
We’re on a buy for crude oil as of May 26.
We are long term bullish for all major world markets, including those of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, France and Japan.
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