“We are long term bullish for all major world markets, including those of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, France and Japan”

DOW                                                        + 46 on 400 net advances

NASDAQ COMP                                   – 23 on 300 net advances

SHORT TERM TREND                        Bullish

INTERMEDIATE TERM TREND       Bullish

     Another lower opening, but again buying came in immediately. However, this time the market didn’t just keep going up. It began to look a little tired. After all, the S&P 500 is up 10% since mid November. Favorable seasonality did it again.

     I believe that we are close to some sort of pullback, but I’ve been thinking that for days and so far it hasn’t happened.

     We’re still making a pattern of rising bottoms and rising tops on the important indices and until that changes, the path of least resistance is up.

     Even the NASDAQ Composite, which has been weaker, relatively speaking, is still sporting this pattern (arrow).

TORONTO EXCHANGE:  Toronto gained 30 for the day.                                          

GOLD: Gold moved down $19. Some said it was concern the economy was getting better. I doubt that. More likely because Morgan Stanley lowered guidance for the year.

BONDS: Bonds were down slightly on Thursday.

THE REST: The dollar was up slightly. Gold, silver, copper and crude oil were all lower.                              

BOTTOM LINE:  

Our intermediate term systems are on a buy signal.

System 2 traders are in cash. Stay there on Friday.

System 7 traders are in cash. Stay there on Friday.                  

Stock investors We long Intel from 21.61. We’re now down a bit. Stay with it.    

NEWS AND FUNDAMENTALS:

   Initial claims were 330,000, less than the expected 360,000. PMI manufacturing came in at 56.1, better than the consensus 54.0. On Friday we get new home sales.

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We’re on a buy for bonds as of January 8.              

We’re on a sell for the dollar and a buy for the euro as of November 19.                      

We’re moving to a sell for gold as of today January 24.

We’re moving to a sell for silver as of today January 24.    

We’re on a buy for crude oil as of November 19.        

We’re on a buy for copper as of January 22.          

We’re on a buy for the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX as of November 21.  

INDICATOR PARAMETERS

Monetary conditions (+2 means the Fed is actively dropping rates; +1 means a bias toward easing. 0 means neutral, -1 means a bias toward tightening, -2 means actively raising rates). RSI (30 or below is oversold, 80 or above is overbought). McClellan Oscillator ( minus 100 is oversold. Plus 100 is overbought). Composite Gauge (5 or below is negative, 13 or above is positive). Composite Gauge five day m.a. (8.0 or below is overbought. 13.0 or above is oversold). CBOE Put Call Ratio ( Below .80 is a negative. Above 1.00 is a positive). Volatility Index, VIX (low teens bearish, high twenties bullish), VIX % single day change. + 5 or greater bullish. -5 or less, bearish. VIX % change 5 day m.a. +3.0 or above bullish, -3.0 or below, bearish. Advances minus declines three day m.a.( +500 is bearish. – 500 is bullish). Supply Demand 5 day m.a. (.45 or below is a positive. .80 or above is a negative).

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