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Market Timing Brief for the 9-19-2014 Close: Stocks Still Poised to Pull Back. Gold Headed to Bottom. Rates Falling Again?

A Market Timing Report based on the 9-19-2014 Close, published Sunday September 21, 2014 The SP500 Index is still slipping, as often happens near tops.  Tops sometimes are revisited.  The SP500 bounced up to the prior high and failed to … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 9-12-2014 Close: Stocks Headed Down. Gold Slipping More. Rates Rocketing.

A Market Timing Report based on the 9-12-2014 Close, published Sunday September 14th, 2014 The SP500 Index is slipping off a test of 2000.  The red arrows in the chart below show you a few of the support levels that … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 9-05-2014 Close: Stocks Holding Gains. Gold Slipping with Rising Rates and Rising U.S. Dollar.

A Market Timing Report based on the 9-05-2014 Close, published Sunday September 7th, 2014 As I was nearing work on September 11th, 2001, the first plane struck 1 World Trade Center in Manhattan, just 1 1/2 hours away, instantly killing … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 8-29-2014 Close: We Have Another SP500 Index Breakout. Gold is Holding. Rates are Falling.

A Market Timing Report based on the 8-29-2014 Close, published Sunday August 31th, 2014 There has been yet another breakout in the SP500 Index (SPX, SPY). Sometimes breakouts are reversed.  In fact, both the April and the July breakouts were … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 8-22-2014 Close: Inflection Point Reached for Stocks? Or Is It Full Speed Ahead? And Will Gold Hold?

A Market Timing Report based on the 8-22-2014 Close, published Sunday August 24th, 2014 Stocks: We added back other U.S. exposure through individual stocks during the recent bounce and remain fully exposed to the markets. The SP500 could pull back … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 8-15-2014 Close: Why We Sold Some U.S. Stocks

A Market Timing Report based on the 8-15-2014 Close, published Sunday August 17th, 2014 We sold some U.S. stock market exposure including mid and large caps at the end of the week after making a nice short term profit.  I … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 8-08-2014 Close: Why We Bought, Selectively.

A Market Timing Report based on the 8-08-2014 Close, published Saturday August 10th, 2014 We started buying a bit early and then bought more aggressively in the U.S. large cap (SPX, SPY) and mid-cap markets (MID, IJH, MDY) as well … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 8-01-2014 Close: The Selling Has Begun. Will It Stop Soon?

A Market Timing Report based on the 8-01-2014 Close, published Saturday August 3rd, 2014 Did earnings or the Fed bring small caps back down so dramatically? Both.  Small cap (RUT, IWM) valuations were stretched, and the bounce back was not … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 7-25-2014 Close: Stay Out of Stocks with Ridiculous Valuations as the Market Dips. Gold Looks OK Here.

A Market Timing Report based on the 7-25-2014 Close, published Saturday July 26, 2014 The SP500 Index has failed a breakout.  I suspect it will test the red line shown or the 50 day moving average or thereabouts.  Sometimes markets … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief for the 7-18-2014 Close: Stocks Testing Lower High. Gold Faltering.

A Market Timing Report based on the 7-18-2014 Close, published Sunday July 20, 2014 The SP500 Index was repelled from the upper yellow channel line and is currently above the lower channel line shown.  The Bulls have a shot to … Continue reading

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