Hello Cobra and all,
This has been a resilient equity market, but if you take a 10 day sma of $NYUPV, you will see that it has been in a downtrend for the past 7 weeks. There are similar negative divergences in NYSI, TICK and TRIN, etc, etc. It is just that selling pressure is not increasing to any substantial degree.
I've been working on an automated trading system in the past few weeks using Prodigio, and backtesting over the past 4 years (Swing to Intermediate.) What I've discovered is that my Buy strategy is quite good, but my Sell strategy had been ill-defined and problematic, which is reflected in my actual trading results (I tend to sell too early.) In trying to nail down a profitable automatic sell strategy, and applying it to today's market, if I were long, then I would still be long. For instance, this week, a Chandelier Exit would not have tripped, a 10 day channel (and anything longer) would not have tripped, and my current PSAR exit would not have tripped, although the standard PSAR setting (0.02,0.2) would have. The point being that many longs are still long, and hedging with Put options, instead of using the Puts as a directional bet. Any thoughts?
One thing to note is the Positive Price Reversal on the Daily SPX RSI(14). It calculates out to 1815.4, and that implies a marginal new all time high and potential double top. The last PPR from 11/7 calculated out to 1782.3, and was confirmed in 5 days, and then exceeded by 20 points in 7 days. That said, if 1815.4 is not exceeded before a failure swing on the RSI, then that would be a good indication of at least a short term change in trend.
The chart shows the updated time and price projection based the 11/29 (blue box). One thing about these boxes, they are mathmatical constructs, and similar to bands and channels they are not predictive, but simply a context to judge price movement. If price were to turn up before or above the blue box, you would conclude that the market is very bullish. If price were to fall through and extend beyond the box in time, you would interpret that as meaning that a longer term change in trend may be occurring. If price were to turn up inside the blue box, then you would conclude that the current uptrend is extending.
This was an Editor's Pick on Seeking Alpha, and although a month old, may be worth a read :
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1867741 ... ters-ahead
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