Dollar Setback
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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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The weekly and monthly charts always allow us to better understand short-term action. They also provide needed perspective to day and swing traders, who can form powerful and unfounded biases from their observations of short-term moves.
This recent Crude rally has been both powerful and convincing, but we must appreciate that it is only a short-term rally. On the weekly timeframe, it is an inconsequential blip in a much larger and more enduring bear market decline. Just 4 weeks removed from a 17-year low, Crude has given us only a mean-reversion rally so far.
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Since 2015’s broad topping pattern, equities have frequently moved sharply in both directions. The extreme nature of the moves makes predicting the day-to-day markets extremely difficult, which is why traders find it so difficult to profit in an environment like that we have today. In the short term, however, Daily Cycle timing and the market’s overbought status greatly favor a reversal and decline toward the next DCL.
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Talk of a bull market is cheap, however, so we need to see Cycle evidence develop before we buy the bullish case completely. For now, traders should focus on the highest probability event, an Investor Cycle Low in May. This should provide Short opportunities in the near term, and Long opportunities after the bottom. In fact, the buying of the ICL should be enormous!
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