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“Trade what you see; not what you think.” – The Old Fool,
Richard McCranie, trader extraordinaire. “Far
more money has been lost by investors in preparing for corrections, or
anticipating corrections, than has been lost in the corrections themselves.” -
Peter Lynch, former manager of Fidelity’s Magellan® fund. "One thing that we've heard is that a lot of the
tariff impact to date has actually not shown up in the numbers yet. There's
been a lot of front-running, building inventories and all those sorts of
things. And we are hearing from an increasing number of businesses that those
strategies ... are starting to run their course...If these pre-tariff
strategies have run their course, we're about to see some changes in prices,
and then we're going to learn how consumers are going to respond to that."
– Raphael Bostic, Atlanta Fed Chair at the Atlanta Fed conference in Florida. “In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. government paid a total
of $1,126.5 billion in interest on its debt. This represents a
significant increase from the $881 billion paid in the previous year. The
rising cost of borrowing, driven by higher interest rates and a larger national
debt, led to this substantial increase.” From... https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/fiscal-policy/monthly-interest-tracker-national-debt/ 1.1-trillion dollars per year just to pay the interest on
the debt. Unreal... MARKET REPORT / ANALYSIS -Thursday the S&P 500 declined about 3 pts to 5842. -VIX declined about 3% to 20.28. -The yield on the 10-year Treasury declined to 4.527%
(compared to about this time prior market day). MY TRADING POSITIONS: XLK-sold 5/21 SPY-sold 5/21 CURRENT SUMMARY OF APPROXIMATELY 50 INDICATORS: Today, of the 50-Indicators
I track, 7 gave Bear-signs and 12 were Bullish. The rest are neutral. (It is
normal to have a lot of neutral indicators since many of the indicators are top
or bottom indicators that will signal only at extremes.)
TODAY’S COMMENT The daily, bull-bear spread of 50-indicators declined, to
a neutral +5 (5 more Bull indicators than Bear indicators) I consider 5
neutral. The 10-dMA of the spread has turned down – a bearish sign suggesting a
reversal down. Thursday, there was very high unchanged volume. I know, you’re
tired of reading my standard note: As I’ve often said, many believe that this indicator
suggests investor confusion at market turning points. Are markets turning back
down? That could always happen and the indicators are suggesting a possible
downturn now. Still, “High-unchanged-volume” is not one of my indicators
because it is often wrong. A drop to the lower trend line would put the S&P 500 somewhere
around 5600. If this decline continues - and I don’t know if it will – a
significant break below that 5600 zone would signal a likely retest of the April
lows. That has been one of the reasons I am being very conservative now. A
return to the April lows has always been a possibility. Still, given the strong
signals we got during the rally up from the low (Zweig Breadth Thrust; 90%
up-volume day; broken downtrend in the charts), a drop to the April lows probably
has a less than 50% chance. BOTTOM LINE I am neutral, but worried. Let’s see where the indicators
go. ETF - MOMENTUM ANALYSIS: TODAY’S RANKING OF 15 ETFs (Ranked Daily) ETF ranking
follows:
The top ranked ETF receives
100%. The rest are then ranked based on their momentum relative to the leading
ETF. *For additional background on
the ETF ranking system see NTSM Page at… http://navigatethestockmarket.blogspot.com/p/exchange-traded-funds-etf-ranking.html DOW STOCKS - TODAY’S MOMENTUM RANKING
OF THE DOW 30 STOCKS (Ranked Daily)
My basket of Market Internals remained HOLD. (My basket of Market
Internals is a decent trend-following analysis that is most useful when it
diverges from the Index.)
My current invested position
is about 50% stocks, including stock mutual funds and ETFs. 50% invested in
stocks is a normal, conservative position. (75% is my max stock allocation when
I am confident that markets will continue higher; 30% in stocks is my Bear
market position.) I trade about 15-20% of the total portfolio using the
momentum-based analysis I provide here. When I see bullish signs, I add a lot more
stocks to the portfolio, usually by using an S&P 500 ETF as I did back in
October 2022 and 2023.
