QUOTE(bearvest @ May 17 2005, 11:35 AM)
Habits:
The bounce comes next week, in my humble opinion.
My count has us tracing out very small one or two day waves, with one up and one down left.
When these last 2 mini waves complete, we'll correct the decline from the March highs. It should take us up to the breakaway gap which may, once again, be resistance.
If you look at the daily chart, you'll see 3 waves down. I've marked the A and B waves in black. We're days away from Black C.
It is this rally, which will take up all of next week and more that must be watched.
If you scroll back through my posts you'll find that I believe that the 3 wave move on the dailies will expand to 5 waves, but that the lows will not be much lower than current levels.
For myself, I'm flat the miners. The NAZ pigs that fly are far more interesting. I've been long SMH. Like Thor, it's an interesting distraction. And while I'm at it, although our trading strategies differ radically, Thor, my unknowing mentor, showed me that excellence existed. I've tried to ascribe to that excellence, though I know that I'll never have his power of analysis. But I think that in my discipline, Elliott, I can give the best that I've got.
I believe that next week's correction up is tradeable (though Elliott strategy says never trade 4th waves, (if this will be the 4th of 5)).
Hope this helps.
If not, simply p-mail me, and I'll try to clarify my count in the evening.
Hah, I'm actually blushing! I only wish it were all true. B4 I noticed the good stuff I was going to comment that I switched from SMH to KLAC as it exhibited better trade parameters. I moved on to RIMM but watched SMH, KLAC, VLO and NEM as well. RIMM was the best with VLO a close second on much less volume.
My main problem in trading is psychological. But that's my discipline problem.
Anyway...
Yesterday was a strange session and I feel the worst that I've sat thru in my short time long the miners here. I was watching NEM for a daytrade but it was a nowhere trade. NEM seemed to be capped at 35.20. Check out an intra-day chart. This is either good or bad. Hard to say. We are in an excellent place for a turn. The "ice" LT for the Zow is just below in the 75-77 area. Using sub 75 as a stop (-5%), buying miners offers quite good risk-reward here. Still not my system to buy pullbacks to support, but to buy breakouts. Pullbacks show weakness while breakouts show strength. Right now the miners are as weak as ....
...well as weak as this:
Advancers 20
Decliners 66
Unchanged 14
Bullish Short Term KMKCF SRFDF
Bullish Long Term 8%
%Bullish 4%
New Recommendations: None.
Anyway don't kid yourself BearVest you have nothing to learn from me. Your Elliott Wave analysis is as good as any I've seen and quite readable compared to most. I never miss reading your posts when I'm here.
Thanks for the TA.
What do I expect? Not much. Anything could happen from smackdown to rocket launch. I think though that there will be jolly sellers into any strength. But they can probably afford to wait a day or 2 to see how high it goes. Their selling into strength should dissolve it and hopefully giving us a higher low and a sustained rally. But there is still that nagging 8 year cycle.
On cycles and stuff I think it was Jackie Chan who just floated an article comparing the 4 year PMS rally to the last 4 years of the Nasdaq rally. I didn't twig right away what the problem was but it is obviously. The last 4 years of the dog was at the tail end of a 20 year bull market not at the end of a 20 year bear market. If it was a 20 year bear market that ended at the start of the millenium (for gold) then we must perforce have 15+ years to run. The pullbacks on the 8 year could still be extreme or could be more in the way of flats. But the rallies should all be to new highs. The thing to not is that Chan is comparing the blow-off mania stage of the Dog to the stealth bull stage of Gold. Gives you an idea of just how high the miners could go in a real mania. Hope I live long enough to live it.
This is all assuming the main assumption, that gold is and has been in a gold bull for over 4 years now. This is not confirmed and we can only be sure (I mean really sure) after the fact. For now I'm happy to be modestly long and wait for the second stage booster to start to kick in to give that feeling of G-force.
If it don't happen, well I guess I own a lot of worthless gold stocks.