Tony Caldaro (March 5, 2016:
LONG TERM: bear market
After the bull market ended in December, on a failed fifth wave, the SPX entered a two month Major wave A downtrend which bottomed in mid-February at 1810. From that low a Major wave B uptrend was underway, which has now retraced 65% of the bear market’s first downtrend. This is quite normal activity during bear markets. The first uptrend of the 2007-2009 bear market retraced 69.4% of the first downtrend. After that the retracements were smaller and smaller, as the downtrends became larger and larger.
Market psychology also comes into play during the early stages of bear markets. When the first downtrend of a bear market is similar to previous corrections during the bull market, investors are likely to remain generally bullish until the total decline becomes larger than any correction during the previous bull market. During the entire 2009-2015 bull market the largest correction occurred in 2011 at 21.6%. Thus far, from the all time high of SPX 2135 to the downtrend low at SPX 1810, the market has only corrected 15.2%. As reported on Friday, investors still have a bullish 61.5% of their portfolio in stocks. This is not as high as the 68.3% they had in stocks in March 2015, when they were at their most bullish level of the entire bull market. But they are still bullish.
The long term count remains unchanged. The Cycle wave [1] bull market ended in December 2015, and a Cycle wave [2] bear market is currently underway. Major wave A ended at SPX 1810, Major wave B should be near completion, and a Major wave C downtrend should follow shortly to new bear market lows. This will only complete Primary A of the three primary wave bear market. We are still expecting a bear market low some time in the year 2017 around SPX 1100.
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