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The action this week will set up the holding time of our current position.
WEEKLY WRAP-UP
Dear Speculators,
First and foremost, if you're not already a subscriber and interested in learning
more, feel free to click
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so you can trade our signals with Rydex, QQQQ and Options. We also offer discounted
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want to receive our signals - to make the most efficient use of your time.
As with any system, the less you can trade and the more profits you can achieve,
the more efficient the system is. That's always the battle - even of the system
trader - whose goal is to design a system to pull the most profit from the
least action. But the action is as key as the system's ability to profit from
it.
As the market moves lower, there are short and mid term moves. The short term
moves last 3 to 5 days and reverse. The mid term moves last roughly 5 to 11
days. Plus there will be times in between when the market isn't doing much.
Consolidation (on a daily chart) means that this system will not perform well.
To perform well during a consolidation period, you need to drop your time
frame down to a 60 minute chart or less. However, that short of a time frame
will increase the trading activity. And for that, you need to be able to trade
during the day - or at the close or open of each and every interval. Since
we use a daily approach, and act at the open when we get/approach a signal,
this system can be followed by anyone.
Getting back to our system, our entry points will determine out ability to
take risk later on in a trade to hold on for a mid term move. A poor system
entry point and we'll likely have to act differently than had we had a good
entry point. It's important to note that the system determines the entry points
and exit points, but as with any system, there are rules that are designed
to, as I like to say, minimize activity and maximize profits.
Since Dynamic Trading remains on a SELL SIGNAL, we're looking to a point in
time to close our bearish positions and enter our bullish positions. We had
a great entry on this last signal - timing the top almost as good as you can.
That top got retested as we were looking for and now we're analyzing our charts
for how long the selling will last.
The first chart below takes a look at one of the Dynamic Trading Oscillators.
These are short term oscillators tuned to time the short term action of the
market and are the basis of our system. However, the following charts, as we
look at every week, are longer term focused, so we can decide the next question
- how long to remain in this trade before going long. As you'll find with any
of my services, I don't spend any time looking at what the market did - I focus
on what the market is going to do.
Of course, if you have any additional questions, please feel free to email
me at jay@stockbarometer.com.
Dynamic Trading Signals are based on a series of Oscillators tuned to the
short and intermediate term movement of the market. Our goal is to be in
the market at all times and switch from bearish to bullish positions in line
with the markets movements.
DYNAMIC TRADING OSCILLATOR

Discussion: All signals are in sell mode here as we saw weakness on
Friday that should continue to some extent this week. One or two good days
of selling will put us in position to lock in gains and position for a bounce.
10/20/40 WEEK CYCLE
The following chart shows our 10/20/40 week cycles. The 40 week is also
referred to as the 9-month cycle. Cycles are not short term tools for determining
precise entry and exit points, they're primarily used for intermediate or
longer term positioning and forecasting.

INVESTOR'S INTELLIGENCE BULL BEAR SPREAD
Each week, Investor's Intelligence polls a number of newsletter writers.
The poll results in a number of bullish advisors and a number of bearish
advisors. The difference between those two numbers produces the following
chart. It's believed, that when a majority of newsletter writers (like us)
are bullish, that the market is near a top, and vice versa. I'm also under
the belief that the direction of this line is as critical as the number.

EQUITY INDEX OPTION VOLUME RATIO
The market is all about risk, and there are two primary classes of participants
in the market, the individual investors and the institutions. Individuals
primarily trade equity options and institutions primarily trade index options.
So the relationship between the two gives us an idea of how much risk the
individual is willing to take on. At tops, the individual tends to take on
too much risk, making this indicator rise. At bottoms, the individual is
usually washed out of the market, making this indicator fall.

QQQQ v. SPY RELATIVE STRENGTH
Risk tells us a lot about the market. This indicator looks at risk from
another perspective. When market participants overall increase their willingness
to take on risk, it's bullish for the market. That risk shift is shown on
the above chart as a shift in relative strength from the Nasdaq to the NYSE.
Note when we refer to Nasdaq, we're primarily looking at the QQQQ - since
that's the focus of our service. And when we say NYSE, we look at the SPY.

MONEY FLOW
This indicator looks at the flow of money in and out of various investment
vehicles. For the most part, when money flow reaches an extreme, in either
buying or selling, the market is at a top or a bottom, respectively.

NDX CHART

In summary:
We remain on a Sell Signal looking for the market to make a sharp move lower
this week.
As an FYI, we show the same 5 charts here each week so we can better learn
their behavior over the course of time. And over time, we'll learn more from
these indicators and incorporate them more into our forecasting. I've been
doing this long enough to know that you don't learn anything all at once, the
best learning is done by following something over an extended period of time.
In as little as 15 minutes a day, you can master anything. Give me just 15
minutes and we'll learn to read this dynamic market together.
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