Adjustment Of Dates.

Readers of the weekly report know by now that short term cycle has indeed bottomed. But some changes need to be taken into consideration. The last short term top was due on September 7^th, but came on September 14^th, about 5 trading days late. The Short term bottom was due on 10^th October but actually came on 12^th October. These changes call for adjustments for future dates.

Earlier I was calling for another short term bottom around October 24^th or around that time. With the shift of dates as mentioned above, I now think that the next short term top will be around October 24^th-25^th, instead of a bottom. The expected short term bottom should now move to October 29^th- 30^th. The final melt- up date remains the same. From end of October till 12^th-14^th November.

Getting confused? Well, let me put in another way.  A complex topping process is going on. We knew that this correction was coming and was prepared for it. Now we also know that another pop is on the way and that would run for next 8-10 days. But that would not take us far and that is not the final pop. I have written before that we have one more scare coming. My expectation is that we will see a swing low around end of October. I cannot say for sure whether that low will be lower than the current low and that will depend how high this one goes. And please keep in mind this short term pop will not be one straight line. Talk of meat grinders!

And a strong caveat: I cannot predict the future. I try to best guess the market based on certain models. So far most of these calls have been on track but while anticipating multiple turns in advance, one has to be ready for quick changes in the plan. I am not playing the market till the end of October (earlier it was 24^th October). And I would not recommend that anyone does either. Patience is the watch word.

I was little disappointed as to how much gold and silver sold off but on the other hand these are good entry levels. Silver bounced off from $32.50 and gold is very close to $ 1740. If you are not already holding precious metal and planning to take core, long term position, do not jump in all at once. You must scale in. For e.g. if you are willing to allocate $ 10000 to PM sector,  instead of investing the entire $10K at one shot, do it in 3 or 4 instalments  Therefore if tomorrow price of silver is above $33 (close) and price of gold close above $ 1740, you may want to allocate 25% -33% to get in. I hope you get my drift. With PMs, we are talking very long term holding periods. Few years at least. So invest accordingly.

Our dear reader dc_BEAR has sent a Bradley Date chart with a comparison of actual SPX price movements. The comparison was originally done by Tim Knights of SOH.

Surprisingly the dates are matching very close to the cycles which I am working with. Let us see how it plays out but this is eerie.  

I know lots of readers here trade short term. One of my friends called in today and asked me to put in ideas about Options. This is something I would tell regular investors  to stay away from. I want to emphasize that if you must trade and deal in options, have separate accounts and allocate only a small amount of risk capital for option trading. Even if you lose 100% of your option account, which is very likely, your core investment will not be affected. My friend agreed to my suggestion. If you folks think that this is something you would like to take a look at, I will have to start a separate blog on Options. I absolutely would not want retirement savings going in option play.

I have been pounding the table for “Relaxed Investor” approach and to take a long term approach to investing for quite a while now. Yesterday, Josh Brown of The reformed trader wrote the following:

A portfolio compounding at 7 percent will double in 10.5 years. Thus, if a client has 20 years of working, saving and investing in front of him (and our nemesis inflation compounds at just 2 to 4% a year) the reality is that we'll be just fine (even if a bit envious at times of an Icarus trader's good fortune and a bit smug when they inevitably crash back to earth). Dicking around with small cap Chinese coal miners just because "they move, bro" simply doesn't enter into this goal-oriented approach. And once the goals become simple, the methodology ought to be every bit as simple. I tell people that if I ever start talking about delta hedging I'm probably high on something and they should fire me.

I have written the same thing in the last weekly report.

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