Monday, September 20, 2021

Getting More Defensive

I cut equity holdings down to about 40% of the portfolio total, so I am a little more defensive now.

 

My long-term ensemble indicator switched to SELL Monday. 

 

The S&P 500 is only down 4.6% from its all-time high. As I write this the S&P 500 is 4325.  I don’t think the Index is at a bottom yet, but it’s possibly not too far off.  The 200-dMA is 5.4% lower. My guess is that will be close to the low.

 

RSI, Bollinger Bands and the Overbought/oversold ratio are all oversold.  We should see a bounce Tuesday, but recently pullbacks have gone directly to a waterfall event and dropped straight down, so it’s not clear that we’ll see much bounce. 


I'll post more tonight.