We should be getting some kind of relief rally soon, but for those of you tempted to buy longer term holds.... look at the following chart and imagine this was the chart of a stock for which you had interest:
You'd say "No thanks". This is one bad-ass ugly chart. However, for shorter term bottom lovers, the sell-off has been fast and furious and some kind of rally will be coming. There will be many temporary tradable bottoms coming up (and one should come relatively soon) within what we believe will be a much larger bear trend.
Here is a weekly chart of the Nasdaq -- as you can see we'll be hitting the trend-line soon and should find some support in that zone. However, it's hard for us to believe that the trendline will hold. Gun to head, we're guessing 2008 is going to be the year of the Bears.
Do you remember back in the bear market 2001-2002 so many were waiting for the one event to help the market? "They're going to catch Osama soon," one would hear. Historically, it hasn't been too smart to wait for some event (Osama, Fed) to save the market. It's going to be a deep, painful process that will probably go on for a while. Of course, hopefully we're wrong and the market ends +20% this year instead of the -20% we're predicting.
As always, this is just fun talk. We're short-term traders and will go with the trend, not our opinion. If the charts point long, we'll go long. But most likely, they're going to point short short short for a long time coming. Having said all that, we must add that we make much more money in a bull market than we do in a bear market (our type of momentum trading works much better in a bull market) so we hope that we are completely and utterly wrong!
