Weekend Stock Market Outlook

Stock Market Outlook For The Week of
January 21st = Uptrend

INDICATORS

20/50 Day Moving Averages: Uptrend
Price & Volume Action: Uptrend
Objective Elliott Wave Analysis: Uptrend

COMMENTARY

U.S. markets continue their winning ways, as the uptrend moves into the 4th week of trading in 2018. Every week, it seems like there is a new crisis for the market to overcome. This week we're dealing a government shutdown, as members of the U.S. legislator could not come to terms on a funding bill. For reference, the last time we had a shutdown was back in October 2013. The markets dropped a little less than 5%, and then immediately recovered. Buy the dip indeed.

All the market indexes remain above their 20 and 50 day moving averages. We have to go all the way back to late August to see the last time the S&P500 was near its 50-day moving average! Now that's a rally.

$INDU,$NYA,$SPX,$USD,$COMPQ,$CRB,$RUT,$GOLD

2018-01-21-US Stock Market Averages

Price and volume action remains positive, though few of the recent breakouts had the trading volume needed to instill confidence. Unfortunately, that's usually the case with later stage bases. All the more reason to make sure you use well defined sell rules.

OEW uptrend remains in place.

Back in 2016, Tony's target for this uptrend (using the S&P500) was 3,000 to 3,600. At that time, the S&P was trading around 2,100. I was skeptical...that was a ~50% move to the upside, and I was expecting a major correction. Now that we're less than 10% from the lower end of that target, it's looking like one hell of a call!

But that's why I use an investing process and money management. In this case, I made money even though I was wrong!

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