The S&P 500 is starting 2015 off with a thud, down 3% in two days. One exotic indicator featured in the December 21 Profit Radar Report warned of a very weak beginning of the year. Here’s a closer look at this indicator.
As my regular readers and subscribers to the Profit Radar Report know, I follow a ton of indicators.
Most of those indicators fall into one of three category buckets: Technicals, sentiment, seasonality.
In the December 21 Profit Radar Report I offered two projections based on Elliott Wave Theory. EWT is one of the more exotic technical indicators, but at times it offers insight no other type of analysis can provide.
The December 21 Profit Radar Report stated that: “Stocks may hit an inflection point once the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 record new all-time highs. About 25% of funds allocated for trading equities are tied up in the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEArca: IWM, Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEArca: XLB) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX ETN (NYSEArca: VXX). We’ll keep this allocation until we see new all-time highs. Thereafter, we will re-evaluate if further gains or a correction is more likely.”
Below is the chart with the two projections featured in the December 21 Profit Radar Report.
We sold XIV on December 23 for a profit.
By December 30, the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 delivered new all-time highs and we closed our XLB and IWM positions with gains, because the odds started to favor the more bearish projection.
Over the past two years corrections have generally been shallow, and it remains to be seen whether the S&P 500 (NYSEArca: SPY) will fall as low as projected in the chart, but for now we are glad to be out of stocks. Yesterday’s Profit Radar Report pegged the initial S&P down side target at 2,016.
A detailed 2015 S&P 500 forecast will be available (to subscribers of the Profit Radar Report) soon.
Simon Maierhofer is the publisher of the Profit Radar Report. The Profit Radar Report presents complex market analysis (S&P 500, Dow Jones, gold, silver, euro and bonds) in an easy format. Technical analysis, sentiment indicators, seasonal patterns and common sense are all wrapped up into two or more easy-to-read weekly updates. All Profit Radar Report recommendations resulted in a 59.51% net gain in 2013.
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