The big question for the week, is the top in? On Oct 29th my stats/indicators peaked and have pulled back since this time, but prices have held up better than expected. I realize lots of folks are making the case it's time for a pullback, I'll counter-trend that assessment by making the case the data is not definitive in either direction, hence I'm neutral. Why am I neutral? Statistically we are not overbought within the 1-23 day price performance, within the bollinger bands we've pulled back, the 64/128/256-day high/low range has pulled back, my Quad indicators have pulled back, we got a bounce off the 20SMA, and the major indexes have not retraced more than 23.6% off the Fibonacci levels. The weekly charts all closed within the green. Seasonality is in our favor, ratio wise the remainder of the year has a positive bias. Bottom line, while we have been pulling back, we haven't had a sharp decline substantiated with a sharp increase in negative volume, so I'll keep an open mind until more data comes in.
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On Oct 29th the 1-day through 14-day PP (
price performance) was in the top 10% (covering the last 20 years of daily prices.) Since October 1993 this event has occurred 10 times with many of those times showing the 1-day through 23-day PP was in the top 10 percentile. This means there is still room to the upside before the 1-day through 23-day PP stats get into the top 10 percentile.
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As a cautionary note, The last time this event occurred was 27 Oct 2011 and resulted in an immediate pullback, with a recovery bounce, followed by a 61.8% Fibonacci retracement.
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In addition, the 64-day, 128-day and 256-day high/low range closed at 100% This means prices closed at the top of their range within those time frames. Over the last 5061 trading days this has occurred 144 times, sometimes this event marks a top, while other times it's a sign of upside embedded price action. Below, I've marked those events over the last year.
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Take the data for what it is, as you can see, we can make the case for the bulls or the bears, for me it's better to sit back and let the story unfold while remaining in the S-Fund for the time being. I would like to make an exit into the G-Fund this month but only if I think I can gain an edge against the markets by doing so. Thus far this year I have been largely unsuccessful in this endeavor but having accepted this fact has made me a better trader, so either ways it's a win/win for me.
Trade safe...Jason