We just had the summer rally. You may have missed it, but the S&P 500 managed to finish the month of August up a whopping 1.1% while the Nasdaq ended with a gain of 1.8%. You might detect some sarcasm here and there is a bit. You see despite the lack of conviction in the market action many people are calling for a new bull market in the financial media and on TV.
This week’s Barrons has a story titled The Reluctant Bulls. It quotes Francois Trahan as saying that the “the US is the best stock market to be in.” He claims that oil is going into a bear market, wage growth is shrinking and therefore inflation should fade. Combine that with interest rate cuts made by the Fed earlier this year that should begin to kick in to the economy and you have a recipe for “reviving domestic economic prospects,” he says.
Trahan ignores that fact that we are not in a normal economic contraction, but a full blown credit crisis and a confirmed bear market. But he’s not alone.
Others expect to see a stock market explosion upwards after the election on the assumption that the election will excite people and cause them to throw money at the stock market no matter who wins.
I see clear signs though that the bear market rally that began in July is reaching its end and that means the next downturn in the market is ahead of us.
Despite Monday’s drop in oil and commodities I also am one of the few people who still like the action in gold. Gold didn’t make a new low yesterday when oil did and gold stocks are still nicely above their August lows too. Leadership in commodities seems to be shifting into gold.
Before I continue I want to give you this disclaimer – I am short the market since the S&P 500 was around 1300 on Thursday and am long gold stocks from August 11th, positions I alerted my WSW Power Investors subscribers to as I took them. I did the same thing when I shorted the market in May a few days before it topped and then covered the morning it made its bottom in July.
Now lets look at the charts.
In reality it is the rally that is getting these people excited about the market and when I look at the rally I see reasons to believe that it is failing. Volume on the rally has steadily contracted throughout the month of August while the VIX, which measures the premium investors are paying for puts and acts as a “fear index” has dropped, warning that complacency has once again returned to the market – the type of complacency seen in December and in May when the market made its last two peaks. Volume finally did pick up Tuesday, but that was on a day that the market was down so is a sign of distribution.
The market has been in bear market since October and in bear markets you want to use rallies like these to get out and if you are aggressive to short.
But almost no one has admitted to themselves that this is a bear market or taken action accordingly to protect themselves. The hope is still alive and you can see that in the way so many of the so called experts grasped on to this rally and became believers again – despite the fact that it has been the weakest rally of the whole bear market.
The market situation right now is very similar to what it was like in December and February. In both of those times the market put on a very short-lived bear market rally. During these rallies volume steadily declined just like it has right now. In fact last week was the lightest volume week of the year for the stock market. Both rallies ended with a lower high put in place. Last week the market rallied in the beginning of the week, but failed to break through it earlier August highs and turned down hard on Friday and Tuesday on higher volume.
If it breaks its August lows then a confirmed double top will be put in place and you can expect to see substantially lower prices to follow. Right now you want to watch the 1260 level on the S&P 500. If the S&P 500 closes below this level then I’ll take it as confirmation that the rally is over.
One thing worth noting is that the average bear market rally lasts 6-8 weeks. Last week marked week seven of the rally that began in July.
There are a lot of things to worry about now. For starters Fannie and Freddie Mac are on the verge of going to zero. According to Barclays Capital the two companies will have to raise $225 billion of short-term to debt over the next six weeks. Of course they won’t be able to do that in the private markets with crashing stock prices.
That means that the first government $100 billion plus bailout of Freddie and Fannie is right around the corner. I don’t think the stock market or the bond market will take that too kindly, because it will mean the government raising the white flag and announcing to the entire world that it will print any amount of money to bail out these two companies and with estimates for their losses to reach $500 billion to even a trillion that is a lot of money we are talking about. Economists are also estimating another $500 billion to trillion dollars will be spent by the FDIC to cover bank failures. Put the two figures together and you are talkin
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