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| Financial Obligations Trouble Obligations being at a 26-year high is more worrisome than the savings rate |
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Cody Willard Blog
Which Way the Gangs Are Leaning
By Cody Willard
7/11/2006 9:40 AM EDT
As we enter the second quarter's earnings season, tensions in the market are escalating. I often highlight the fallacies of pigeonholing. Whether it's of people, market caps or sectors, pigeonholing blinds us to opportunities and is a lazy way to make sense of complex systems. That said, not all pigeonholing is wrong; we can usefully define groups based on their decisions. Permabears, bears, bulls, permabulls, daytraders and momentum chasers are made and not born, we market participants are prime for some pigeonholing. It helps us get into the heads of market participants, which is indeed important. So anyway, here's how I'd break down the market participants:
The permabears are finally growling and shorting this market. "The end of the bull market is already upon us," they say.
The bears, the non-perma kind who are willing to be flexible -- you didn't think all bears are stuck in the "day of doom is coming so don't be long anything!" line of thinking, did you? -- have scaled out of anything but their most coveted longs and are actively shorting this market, especially tech stocks.
The bulls are scared, and have been selling technology hard because "stocks don't lie." Because tech is bumbling along at new lows, the bulls are convincing themselves that The Wall Street Journal and other mainstream media outlets are right that we should avoid "risky" assets and focus on "safety." How cyclicals like energy and other commodity companies get included in that group is beyond me, but I digress.
The permabulls are fully invested, having deployed all their cash in the first leg down at some point in May. Now they can only buy more by selling another position. Many are indeed scaling out of tech and into "safer" areas.
Daytraders are frustrated by the market's recent randomness, which has indeed seemed more random than just the normal randomness associated with any near-term market. Frustrated is the operative word there.
Momentum chasers have been crushed this year and they are flailing. But they remain convinced that this downturn is only a temporary setback for their stocks and that the fundamentals out there are strong and poised to continue booming.
It's a tough setup from which to decipher much in the way of meaningful market conclusions. I tend to think the bears are pressing things right now and that the bulls are overly fearful, which is why I've put on my small Nasdaq 100 Unit Trust (QQQQ) trade. But as the small relative size of the position belies, I have little faith in that analysis, in large part because the crosscurrents and positioning from my stereotyped market participants isn't exactly screaming "a capitulation is in and the bears are leaning the wrong way at the wrong time."
The upshot: It's been a tough, tough market to trade successfully for the last two months, and that's still how I see it. So I remain of the mindset that it's better to tread lightly if at all than to make big bets and go for the gusto at this juncture.
At the time of publication, the firm in which Willard is a partner was net long QQQQ, although positions can change at any time and without notice.
Cody Willard is the manager of a hedge fund
...kommt, wenn die 50-Tage-Linie die 200-Tage-Linie nach unten durchkreuzt. Beim Nasdaq ist das schon geschehen.
Technical Analysis


I thought Tuesday that we might get a few days of reprieve through a bear market rally in the semiconductors and the overall market. Tuesday we had a key reversal in the averages, but it was without the normal volume that usually accompanies such a move. However, it looked like we were going to get some upside testing. Unfortunately, it was just a trap that sucked in the bulls. I almost took a few short-term long trades Friday morning to try to catch a couple of percentage points. I didn't do it because I have a rule to never buy before 11 a.m. unless I'm playing a sharp overnight reaction. It is a rule that has consistently kept me out of trouble. On Monday, I wrote that the transports had probably put in a double top. The action Thursday pretty much confirms that. They lost 2.71% in one of the day's worst performances.
The Nasdaq 100 is still leading the market lower. One day technology and the semiconductors are going to stage a significant bounce from their extremely oversold condition. The negativity and waterfall drop will eventually give in to bottom-fishers.
Higher oil prices and inflation will eventually hit the consumer, and you can see that the retailers are clearly projecting a slowdown in the economy and in consumer spending.
I warned in May that the emerging markets were some of the most dangerous places to be. I continue to believe that this is a high-risk position. I said in past columns that a bounce in the 95 to 100 area would give investors another chance to exit before a new leg down. On Thursday, we got confirmation of that new leg. Look at the increasing volume as the iShares MCSI Emerging Markets Fund (EEM) pierces the 200-day moving average.
No one likes bull markets more than I. I hate focusing on the negative action. However, it is important that we protect you from taking unnecessary risks and losing your hard-earned money. I've been recommending a high level of cash for months, and I continue to believe that's the right stance. An easy rule to follow is to have a large percentage in cash when the general market is below the 200-day moving average. This rule can save you a lot of frustration. Technical Analysis
A Damaging Mindset Reinforced
By Alan Farley
7/17/2006 11:31 AM EDT
It's hard to find nice things to say about the market after last week's selloff added to the substantial technical damage done in the first quarter. Ominously, the major indices closed at their lows for the second week in a row. This isn't what you want to see if you're hoping that a sharp recovery is just around the corner.
The 50-day MA now is working its way down to the longer-term 200-day MA at a rapid pace. Like other market players, I hope the index recovers soon, but it would take only a small downdraft from here to trigger they key crossover event. At that point, the S&P 500 would join the Nasdaq indices in signaling the bearish death cross pattern. Energy markets are the wild card because of the growing divergence between crude oil prices and energy stocks. Crude oil broke out to an all-time high last week and could jump into triple digits by early 2007. But oil and gas stocks just ground sideways during the event, caught in the conflict between rising futures and falling stock exchanges. The S&P 500 index is heavily weighted in these instruments and would benefit greatly if the oil and gas sector worked its way back to new highs this summer. But the outlook is currenlty clouded. While energy stocks should eventually play catch-up, the current patterns still look confused and uncertain.
The Oil Services HOLDRs (OIH) dropped like a rock after hitting an all-time high in early May. Its chart looks similar to those of other commodity-related instruments that fell out of bed at that time. The group shows a limited recovery in the last two months and is now trading at the midpoint between the highs and lows of the spring selloff.
The Amex Oil Index (XOI) has a friendlier appearance than the oil services sector. The instrument tested its May high last week in a resurgence lead by blue-chip refiners. The good news is the pattern has obvious potential for a run to new highs in the next few weeks. That breakout could lift the entire complex and initiate a very strong uptrend. An energy sector buying surge would have a sharp impact on the S&P 500 and raise hopes that the broader market was engaged in a recovery. But that rally would also renew debate about the unlikelihood of a bull market in a world in which gasoline costs five bucks per gallon. In any case, the breakout might put a floor under the market until the third quarter. Most discussions about summer recoveries avoid any references to the technology sector. There's an obvious reason for this curious omission. The Nasdaq Composite and the tech sector already have arrived in clear and undeniable bear market cycles. Let's review this unpleasant state of affairs in two ways, one obvious and one not so obvious.
The Nasdaq Composite now sits at the same level it traded at during the first week of 2004. This flat line translates into 30 months with no upward progress at all. Of course, the tech sector still has a huge fan base that jumps on all group downturns. Look for these stubborn folks to continue to feel the pain, just like they did in the last bear market. And things are getting even worse in the chip sector, which is now trading at mid-2003 price levels. That brings me to my less-obvious observation about this tech bear market: Did you see the Philadelphia semiconductor index (SOX) turn green several times last week, right in the middle of the most potent selling impulses? Does this remind you of anything in particular? That's right, we saw the identical phenomenon during the 2000-02 bear market, when vertical chip-stock squeezes would balance out the tape whenever short-sellers got too aggressive. Back then, you could pick out a squeeze just by watching KLA-Tencor (KLAC) about 15 minutes into the opening of a down day. Clearly, it will take a tremendous amount of buying pressure to overcome the selling mentality infecting the markets. Multiple rally failures since May have reinforced this damaging mindset, ensuring that future upticks will be sold aggressively, . It will take nothing less than a macro event, like world peace or lower interest rates, to come to the market's rescue and bail out the upside.
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