March 22, 2012 – Russell turns chicken — The retail public usually buys stocks during the opening hours of the session. The pros and the institutions usually do their trading during the waning hours of the session. With today’s market action I took a small profit and sold out my DIAs, yes against the dictates of my PTI. I just didn’t feel that the risk-to-reward was worth sitting with stocks at this juncture. I’m waiting to see the days when the market firms up near the close, which is the opposite of what it’s been doing. I don’t like markets that tend to sell off during the last two hours of trading. I’m now satisfied to be on the sidelines with zero common stocks. I’ll just watch the action for a while. My inclination and feeling — neutral, very neutral. But no sell signal yet from my PTI.

Earlier in the Day Russell Wrote:

The fact is that the Fed is happy with 2% inflation each and every year. Compound 2% inflation year after year, and you know what’s happening? — you’ve effectively wiped out the middle class. Between inflation, stagnant wages, higher taxes, and no jobs, the middle class has hit the brick wall like a fresh egg hitting the trunk of a redwood tree. Whoosh!

The Dow appears to waffle around during the length of each trading day and then at the close the Dow is down 10 to 50 points. What is this? Reverse inflation? Or is the Dow trying to tell us something? Honest, I don’t know what!

Personally, I don’t care for the action, but my PTI still says “bullish.” Most of us are so tired of hearing about Greece that we wish the country would just sink into the Mediterranean and take Portugal and Spain with it.

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Russell gained wide recognition via a series of over 30 Dow Theory and technical articles that he wrote for Barron’s during the late-’50s through the ’90s. Through Barron’s and via word of mouth, he gained a wide following. Russell was the first (in 1960) to recommend gold stocks. He called the top of the 1949-’66 bull market. And almost to the day he called the bottom of the great 1972-’74 bear market, and the beginning of the great bull market which started in December 1974.

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