Midweek Update – Oct 19th
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Bob Loukas is the founder of The Financial Tap. With over 20 years of experience in market analysis and trading, Bob is a life-long student of economics and has an abiding passion for the financial markets.
He is a leading expert in Market Cycles. His love of Cycles emerged from the study of the work of Walter Bressert, a pioneer in the field.
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Bob has been settled in New York City for the past 16 years. His background is in Computer Sciences, with extensive experience in the Financial Software arena. Prior to launching The Financial Tap, Bob served as a senior executive at various Fortune 50 firms where he led development of financial trading and reporting software.
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Too many people appear to be focused on the inverse head and shoulders bottom that has developed in Crude. While H&S patterns have their place, the problem with the current pattern is that for it develop and complete, Crude needs to be in a new cyclical bull market. I’m OK with a partial breakout – a solid punch above the below trend line – that acts as a bull trap, but that’s all that will make sense at this point. Crude Oil is structurally not ready to resume a bull market, and the macro-economic landscape simply does not align well with one. I believe that we’re seeing a bear market, counter-trend rally that is near exhaustion.
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It’s easiest to see the Gold’s bullish consolidation via time on the Investor Cycle chart. Gold topped 12 weeks ago and has a failed Daily Cycle behind it, yet is down only $70 from the IC peak. It’s a classic bull market consolidation of the huge six-month rally, and is a significant change in character from what we all lived through during Gold’s bear market.
A Gold Price Reversal is on the way, make no mistake about it, but we may need to be patient as we wait for it. Gold could need another full Daily Cycle lower before finding its ICL, and that would mean another 4-5 weeks of declines. Rest assured, however, that the bull market trend is firmly established. During the next series of higher IC’s, I expect the general public to again pay attention to Gold.
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