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If History Rhymes, Here Is Top and BottomI am still quite confident the markets are set to drop significantly in 2024. I have studied correctional wave patterns that are similar to our current situation wherein the market topped on January 4, 2022 and began the corrective pattern. **The pattern contains a wave B that is larger than wave A in duration and movement. The wave C then moves more than wave B** The current case so far so the index drop 1,327.04 points over 195 trading days. As of the close on March 6, 2024, wave B has gained 1,658.09 points in 347 trading days (the current top for this calculation is 5149.67 on March 4. CURRENT SITUATION SO FAR: I have found similar conditions 11 times historically and studied how waves B and C reacted in those situations and applied it to the current case to determine where wave B could end and what wave C could do. ******2023****** This first event began February 24, 2023. I will use 6 minute bars for comparisons. This is an inversion to today's scenario as the B wave moved down instead of up. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 74.97 points over 58 trading bars Wave B moved 89.89 points over 193 trading bars Wave C moved 150.33 points over 149 trading bars Wave A was 30.05% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 119.90% of wave A's movement Wave A was 38.93% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 200.52% of wave A's movement The full inverted movement picture was this: If we apply the data explicitly to the data from our 2022 wave A, wave B could last 647 trading days gaining 1,591.14 points placing the market top at 5,082.72. Wave C could then lose 2,660.98 points in 501 trading days. ******2018****** This next event began January 26, 2023. I have returned to daily bars for this scenario. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 319.07 points over 44 trading days Wave B moved 387.11 points over 121 trading days Wave C moved 594.33 points over 65 trading days Wave A was 36.36% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 121.32% of wave A's movement Wave A was 67.69% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 186.27% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 536 trading days gaining 1,609.96 points placing the market top at 5,101.54. Wave C could then lose 2,471.88 points in 288 trading days. ******2014****** This next event began July 24, 2014. I will use hourly trading bars for this example. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 82.38 points over 73 trading hours Wave B moved 110.25 points over 205 trading hours Wave C moved 198.6 points over 129 trading hours Wave A was 35.61% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 133.83% of wave A's movement Wave A was 56.59% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 241.08% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 548 trading days gaining 1,775.98 points placing the market top at 5,267.56. Wave C could then lose 3,199.23 points in 344 trading days. ******2011****** This next event began January 19, 2011. I will use hourly trading bars for this example. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 23.34 points over 6 trading hours Wave B moved 31.41 points over 22 trading hours Wave C moved 26.17 points over 4 trading hours Wave A was 27.27% % the duration of wave B Wave B moved 134.58% of wave A's movement Wave A was 150% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 112.13% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 715 trading days gaining 1,785.93 points placing the market top at 5,277.51. Wave C could then lose 1,488.01 points in 130 trading days. ******2005****** This next event began March 7, 2005. I will return to daily trading bars for this example and the rest after this point. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 89.47 points over 31 trading days Wave B moved 109.64 points over 73 trading days Wave C moved 77.44 points over 50 trading days Wave A was 42.47% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 122.54% of wave A's movement Wave A was 62.00% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 86.55% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 459 trading days gaining 1,626.15 points placing the market top at 5,117.73. Wave C could then lose 1,148.55 points in 314 trading days. ******2000****** This next event began March 24, 2000. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 784.24 points over 639 trading days Wave B moved 807.46 points over 1259 trading days Wave C moved 909.3 points over 352 trading days Wave A was 50.75% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 102.96% of wave A's movement Wave A was 181.53% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 115.95% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 384 trading days gaining 1,366.32 points placing the market top at 4,857.90. Wave C could then lose 1,538.70 points in 107 trading days. ******1990****** This next event began January 3, 1990. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 40.76 points over 19 trading days Wave B moved 49.95 points over 115 trading days Wave C moved 75.27 points over 62 trading days Wave A was 16.52% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 122.55% of wave A's movement Wave A was 30.65% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 184.67% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 1,180 trading days gaining 1,626.29 points placing the market top at 5,117.87. Wave C could then lose 2,450.64 points in 636 trading days. ******1979****** This next event began October 5, 1979. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 13.1 points over 11 trading days Wave B moved 21.16 points over 79 trading days Wave C moved 25.99 points over 30 trading days Wave A was 13.92% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 161.53% of wave A's movement Wave A was 36.67% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 198.40% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 1,401 trading days gaining 2,143.57 points placing the market top at 5,635.15. Wave C could then lose 2,632.85 points in 532 trading days. ******1968****** This next event began December 2, 1968. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 40.76 points over 368 trading days Wave B moved 53.13 points over 665 trading days Wave C moved 60.78 points over 437 trading days Wave A was 55.34% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 130.35% of wave A's movement Wave A was 84.21% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 149.12% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 352 trading days gaining 1,729.80 points placing the market top at 5,221.38. Wave C could then lose 1,978.88 points in 231 trading days. ******1965****** This next event began May 13, 1965. Waves A and B looked like this: Wave A moved 9.95 points over 32 trading days Wave B moved 13.99 points over 156 trading days Wave C moved 22.44 points over 168 trading days Wave A was 20.51% the duration of wave B Wave B moved 140.60% of wave A's movement Wave A was 19.05% the duration of wave C Wave C moved 225.53% of wave A's movement The full movement was this: Applying this data to our current wave A data, wave B could last 950 trading days gaining 1,865.82 points placing the market top at 5,357.40. Wave C could then lose 2,992.87 points in 1,024 trading days. Based on all of these instances, some are too far off to rhyme to our current situation when it comes to likely duration of wave B or top while others have options in play in the very near-term. With our current high 347 days into wave B, the next likely duration candidates are: 352, 384, 459, 536, 548, 647, 715, and 950. With only one top more than 300 points ago, nearby tops for wave B are at: 5,102, 5,118 (twice), 5,221, 5,267, 5,277, 5,357, and 5,635. One of the historically similar instances possible in the near-term for both the duration and top are from 1968. A replication or near similar movement could place the top on next Monday at 5,221. This happens to be the day prior to the next CPI reading. A CPI increase could further delay or altogether push rate cuts off the table this year. If this is the exact top, the bottom could occur 231 trading days later near 3,242.50. This level aligns very near my original forecasted low below 3,300 (granted I figured the top would have been in well before now). The bottom could be around February 10, 2025 which is also in my semi-wide ballpark of the original market bottom forecasted on July 4, 2022. The highest retracement for wave B's movement in relation to wave C is 161% from 1979, while most reside in the 119%-135% range. We have currently retraced (over extended) around 125% of wave A's movement. We shall see what occurs as time moves on. If a drastic falls is still set to occur, it will take cascading events likely to the finance and technology sectors to make it so.
SP:SPXShort
by StockSignaler
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Three tracks to the bottom (cont)This is a follow-up to my analysis from the other day. The green track is the one for the 1968 model. It has held pretty close to the entirety of the whole correction so I favor this model for now. The 2018 model is pretty good. It is the yellow track. It was a short duration but had the lowest bottom. This would give us a bottom around 2700 which most of my other models are no longer favoring. It is good to see, but I am not favoring it as much as the 1968 model. The final model is the 2005 model and the magenta solid path. This model has one of the higher tops over the longer period of time. I do not like this model but it is possible. I figure the drop will be quicker and go below the prior low from October 2022. The 2005 correction did not see C go below wave A's bottom.
SP:SPXShort
by StockSignaler
Safe to forecast next drop yet?Hopefully its time to take another crack at forecasting Primary wave 3 down. Wave 2 started strong and managed to retrace 98% of Primary wave 1 down. I began to have doubts we were in the right place. Still would like a drop below my green trendline here: We finally broke well below the yellow and have created a lower low and lower high. These are early indications we may be in Intermediate wave 1 down inside of the Primary wave 3. A break above 4599 and then 4607 likely puts the market in a different place in wave theory time. Now that Primary wave 2 is longer from a duration standpoint and larger from a movement standpoint, there are some changes to the original Primary wave 3 forecasts. I originally expected Primary wave 3 to bottom in May, but my initial projections a few weeks back placed the bottom in March/April at the latest. The movement extension percentages did not change, nor did their values as that data was predicated on Primary wave 1’s movement. Current forecast is a duration of 900-922 trading hours which would place the bottom around mid- to late-May 2024. The bottom has now risen to a area between 3600-3660. The movement and duration are based on similar wave 1/wave 2 relationships from historical wave theory data. Primary wave 1 was 461 hours long while wave 2 was 162 (as of the high on December 1). This forms a ratio of 2.8457 (461/162). Primary wave 1 moved 503.29 points down while wave 2 gained 495.608 of that back. Ratio is 1.0155 (503.29/495.608). I searched for similar datasets in which the 1:2 duration value was between 2.4 and 3.1; while the movement was between 0.95-1.08. For additional more refined data I shrunk these values to 2.6-2.9 on the duration which provide a tighter grouping of possibilities. These historical wave pointed to an extra 300 hours of duration and bottom around 3550. While I will keep these in mind, I think my historical bottom targets have been too long and too low. I will keep the target around 911 hours near 3630. I have taken the median models to forecast what the movement should look like to get to a bottom of 3630 over 911 trading hours. Intermediate wave 1 appears more realistic as do wave 3. This is more of a perfect world wave placement on the way down but it is based on normal historical movement for Intermediate waves inside of a wave 3. Right now wave 1 could end late this month/early in January around 4220. Wave 2 bounces up near 4475 around mid-January 2024. Intermediate wave 3 should be the big drop we have been looking for and likely drawn out over 2 months. That current bottom aligns beneath 3800. Wave 4 looks to move up toward 4000 by early April and the final bottom is end of May/early June around 3630. At this 3630 bottom there is likely 6 months or less until the final bear market bottom. Things should blast off beginning late in 2024. Here is the current possible path moving forward: I continue to lean on China taking Taiwan as the major driver of downward movement in the first half of 2024 but we shall see. COVID shutdown scares could rattle some industries but likely wont do enough damage this time around as most people desensitized to lockdowns and understand how quickly industries snapped back from COVID declines.
SP:SPXShort
by StockSignaler