Category Archives: 50% principle

Nasdaq 100 Watch List: Illumina Inc.

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Pending Home Sales, What Do They Know?

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Review: Target

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Transaction Alert

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Japan Watch List: Honda Motor Corp. Review

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Canadian Watch List: BCE Inc.

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Q & A: Mexico’s Market

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1972-1975: Dow’s 50% Principle #DowsTheory

Below is a great charting of Dow’s 50% Principle from the work of Richard Russell. Continue reading

Russell 2000 Downside Targets & 50% Principle

Below are the downside targets for the Russell 2000 Index applying Dow’s Theory. Continue reading

Advance Auto Parts: Price Targets

According to Yahoo!Quotes, Advance Auto Parts (AAP) “… provides automotive replacement parts, batteries, accessories, and maintenance items for domestic and imported cars, vans, sport utility vehicles, and light and heavy duty trucks.”

Below are the downside support targets based on the high of $199.38 and the upside resistance targets based on the $79.26 low.

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Interest Rate Monitor: September 2018

In this posting, we’ll continue on a theme that we’ve outlined since December 16, 2015, when we said:

“A single rate increase by the Federal Reserve in no way makes for a trend.  However, markets often lead the way and what initially seems ‘bizarre’ is only a natural change in regime, a change that we haven’t seen since the early 1940’s.”

The change “…that we haven’t seen since the 1940’s” is the secular trend in interest rates to go from an extremely low level to the opposite end of the spectrum, potentially to high double digit levels.  Our September 4,2014 posting suggested that:

“Investors anticipating a general rise in interest rates should feel some comfort in knowing that most manager in the utility sector are ready for what is to come.  Rising interest rates are not an automatic death sentence for utility stock prices or earnings.   In fact, the early stages of rising interest rates may see utility stocks match or exceed the returns of non-interest rate sensitive stocks, on a total return basis.  Only when the outlook is cloudy will it become difficult to offer projections that are in line with prior expectations.”

We have been consistent in the belief that the secular trend in interest rates is higher instead of lower.  With this in mind, we are presenting our upside targets (resistance levels) for the daily 3-month Treasury rates.  We use the daily 3-month Treasury rates simply because it precedes all Federal Reserve rate increases and decreases since 1934 (100%).

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Lam Research: Fighting Gravity

On September 27, 2017, we said the following of Lam Research (LRCX):

“Our view is that all parabolic moves are met with entropy.  This should bring a breakdown in the stock price to at least the conservative downside target of $90.43.  This isn’t a wish, it is based on the historical pattern in the price as previously indicated.”

Since September 2017, LRCX has increased from $177.12 to as high as $228.65, a change of +29%.  However, as of August 10, 2018, LRCX sits at $178.10, a change of +1% from the September 2017 posting.  Our belief is that the downside targets for LRCX are still in play based on the Speed Resistance Lines [SRL] that we propose.  Below is the updated SRL along with a Dow Theory consideration of upside targets.

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Bitcoin: April 2018

On February 17, 2018, we said of Bitcoin:

“…before a new high (substantially above the $19,343) is achieved, we expected a retest of the $6,914.26 level (or something close, like, $7,000-$7,200).”

We will continue to revisit the parts where we got the analysis right because this is where Dow Theory was correctly interpreted.  Below is the charting of the February 5, 2018 low and the subsequent rise and the retest of the low on April 1, 2018.

Bitcoin Upside Targets

Like Ethereum, Bitcoin is rebounding nicely from the February 5, 2018 low.  Below are the upside targets for Bitcoin:

Ethereum Upside Targets

As Ethereum recovers from the low set at $695.08 on February 5, 2018, the expected upside targets are as follows: