S&P 500 and DAX vs Intermediate Delta Cycle

According to the Delta-pundits (Wilder, Rosen, Copan, etc.) Inversions of the Intermediate Delta Pattern (ITD = 4 Lunar Month Cycle) only occur between the 'Red Full Moon' and the 'Blue Full Moon' (see colored vertical lines and the reddish time-frames in the first chart & HERE).

ITD #5 occurs around 'blue' New Moons (= grey vertical between blue and yellow verticals). 4 months ago ITD #5 printed 1 TD before New Moon. What was it before the last New Moon? Should it be considered a high, a low, the end of a sideways-consolidation, the end of a triangle (equivalent to a low)? If the latter is correct, no inversion occurred in the 4 Lunar Month Pattern (see pink dashed line), and we should again be at or near a low. A sideways-to-up movement into March 4 (+/- 2TD max) should follow. Very likely it will be a lower high.

However, the DAX obviously did invert around the last 'Blue Full Moon', but then somehow re-adjusted again to the pattern traced 4 Lunar Months back (pink dashed line is shifted 118 CD into the future). If this is correct, also the DAX should now move sideways-to-up into early March. 

A major low in US stock indices is due early to mid-March (9 Month Cycle), and should be followed by another advance to higher-highs during the second quarter. A correction could take place end of March - early April. But the Spring Rally is a very stable annual pattern, even present during bad years, e.g. 2007 and 2008. Usually equities indices rise into the April 23 - May 5 time frame. 

Major Stock Market Rallies of last 111 Years Compared

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The Dow made another post-financial crisis rally late last week. To provide some further perspective to the current Dow rally (and in response to several requests), all major market rallies of the last 111 years are plotted on today's chart. 

Each dot represents a major stock market rally as measured by the Dow with the majority of rallies referred to by a label which states the year in which the rally began ... a rally is being defined as an advance that follows a 30% decline (i.e. a major bear market) ... the Dow has begun a major rally 13 times over the past 111 years which equates to an average of one rally every 8.5 years ... As it stands right now, the current Dow rally that began in March 2009 (blue dot labeled you are here) would be classified as well below average in both duration and magnitude. However, when compared to the most recent post-major bear market rally (i.e. the rally that began in 2002), the current rally has already surpassed it in magnitude and required less time to do so.

DJIA vs 35.21 Three Year Cycle

HighRev [Sep. 9th, 2012]: The 47 Year Cycle and the 35.21 Three Year Cycle are variations of the Kitchin Cycle. "I was originally working with a rough 7 year cycle working off the momentum lows on the technicals using the 2002-2003 lows and the 2008-2009 lows as my principal reference points, but that did not backtest well. 

As a result I started looking at the 4 Year Kitchin Cycle (which is really a 41 month cycle) that had failed in the late 1940’s, and when it revived, it was out of step with its previous cycle framework. In shifting the Kitchin cycle and using the 1932 low as the start date, the results were also lackluster. 

Since I wanted something that would tie in the 1932 low with the 2002 and 2009 lows, and also be fairly reliable in between, I discarded the Kitchin Cycle and started looking at variations. As a result, I came up with this “35.21 Three Year Cycle”, which in turn became the basis for the larger cycles and sub-cycles. 

I especially like the early cycle lows matching price lows, mid-cycle lows sometimes seeing inversions in a strongly trending environment, and late cycle lows oscillating between price lows and price highs. As with all cycles, there’s no such thing as perfection. Sometimes they come early, sometimes they come late, and sometimes they’re on time. The actual 47 year low came late with regards to the idealized low, but only missed by just over a 5% time window when looking at it on a century to century time frame, and that isn’t bad at all for a cycle low (and when looking at the 3 year cycle where there are a good many lows that came as much as 6 months early/late, that “miss” looks even better). Another thing I really like about this cycle is how the longer term 47 year cycle takes into account the two main secular bulls coming out of the 1932 lows. I also got the 1932, 2002, 2009, and a good many other important lows to “line up”, and that, in what I like to call, "a best fit" pattern."

Delta Update

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Tidal CITs @ Willets Point [NYC] 
2012-04-18-19 (Wed-Thu)
2012-04-27-29 (Fri-Sun)
2012-05-07 (Mon)
2012-05-13-14 (Sun-Mon)
2012-05-18 (Fri)
2012-05-21-22 (Mon-Tue)
2012-05-24-25 (Thu-Fri)
2012-05-29 (Tue)
2012-06-05 (Tue)
2012-06-13-14 (Wed-Thu)
2012-06-16 (Sat)
2012-06-23-26 (Sat-Tue)
2012-06-28-29 (Thu-Fri)
2012-07-04 (Wed)
2012-07-12-13 (Thu-Fri)
2012-07-22-23 (Sun-Mon)
2012-07-28 (Sat)
2012-08-02 (Thu)
 
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Intermediate-Term Delta-Count (ITD):
2012-04-02 (Mon) = ITD #(9) = HIGH = MTD #10 = LTD #7 = SLTD #3 ?
2012-04-23 (Mon) = ITD #(11) = LOW = MTD #11 = LTD #8
2012-05-01 (Tue) = ITD #(11 x) = HIGH = MTD #12 ?
2012-05-04 (Fri) = ITD #(11 y) = LOW
2012-05-07 (Mon) = ITD #1 HIGH = MTD #12 ?
2012-05-18 (Fri) = ITD #(1) = LOW
2012-05-29 (Tue) = ITD #2 HIGH
2012-06-04 (Mon) = ITD #3 LOW = MTD #1 ? = LTD#8 ? = SLTD #4 ?
2012-06-11 (Mon) = ITD #4 HIGH [+/- 2 TD]
2012-06-18 (Mon) = ITD #5 LOW [+/- 2 TD] = MTD #1 ? = LTD#8 ? = SLTD #4 ?
2012-06-29 (Tue) = ITD #6 HIGH [+/- 2 TD] = MTD #2 ?
2012-07-09 (Mon) = ITD #7 LOW [+/- 2 TD]
2012-07-23 (Mon) = ITD #8 HIGH [+/- 2 TD] = MTD #2 ? = SLTD #3 ?
2012-08-01 (Wed) = ITD #9 LOW [+/- 2 TD]
2012-08-06 (Mon) = ITD #10 HIGH [+/- 2 TD] = MTD #2 ? = SLTD #3 ?

Astro-Events, Tides & Delta combined: 
2012-06-10 (Sun) = AI 9
2012-06-10 06:55 (Sun) = MAR 0 SAT [helio]
2012-06-10 21:49 (Sun) = MER 180 NEP [helio]
2012-06-11 05:41 (Mon) = Third Lunar Quarter
2012-06-11 (Mon) = ITD #4 HIGH ?
2012-06-12 (Tue) = Bradley CIT [geo & helio]
2012-06-12 (Tue) = CIT of (Decl MER+MAR-VEN) = MWW-CIT
2012-06-13 (Wed) = Tidal CIT
2012-06-13 (Wed) = AI 0
2012-06-13 07:03 (Wed) = SUN 120 SAT = Level 2
2012-06-15 20:43 (Fri) = Moon @ Apogee
2012-06-16 (Sat) = Tidal CIT
2012-06-16 21:05 (Sat) = MER @ 178 [helio] = MWW-CIT
2012-06-17 00:00 (Sun) = SUN 180 Galactic Center
2012-06-18 18:20 (Mon) = MER 180 URA [helio]
2012-06-18 (Mon) = ITD #5 LOW [+/- 2 TD] = MTD #1 ? = LTD#8 ? = SLTD #4 ?
2012-06-19 10:02 (Tue) = New Moon
2012-06-20 18:08 (Wed) = Summer Solstice
2012-06-20 05:18 (Wed) = VEN 0 PLU [helio]

NOTE: Robert Hitt suggests the low of next week as early as late Wednesday "at a level that would generate fear but NOT a low below June 4th" [ www.astroecon.com ]. This would then become ITD #5 LOW and determine June 4th as ITD #3 LOW = MTD #1 + LTD#8 + SLTD # (see above chart). 

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See also HERE.

 

354 CD Cycle vs SPX - RUA - VLIC

 

June 17th = SUN 180° Galactic Center = LOW ?

Delta: Full Moon LOW - June 11 HIGH - June 18 LOW ?

The Inversion-Zone between ITD #11 and #2 ended with a ITD #2 High and the Full Moon #3 LOW on June 4. Now a rally into June 8-11 followed by another decline into June 18 is likely.

9-Month Cycle | Tom McClellan

www.mcoscillator.com

July 22, 2011

The 9-month cycle in the stock market used to be a very regular and important factor governing stock price movements.  But recent changes in the rules and structures of the markets may have made this cycle go the way of Saturday trading and paper stock certificates.  Or perhaps it has just changed itself into a new form.  Let's take a look.

My lead chart this week highlights what I am talking about.  Before 2007, there were important bottoms about every 185 trading days.  Cycles analysts for years have called this the "9-month cycle", or the "40-week cycle", even though the precise period was a little bit shorter than those numbers.  Big round numbers are easier to say, which is why those names were used.
In addition to the major cycle lows every 185 trading days, there was also a significant mid-cycle low that would appear somewhere in between the major bottoms.  The mid-cycle low was usually not as punctual, and could arrive early or late, even as the major cycle low would tend to be more on time.  This mid-cycle low was a "harmonic" of the frequency of the major cycle low, meaning that they were even multiples of each other.  Harmonic frequencies are a big deal for mechanical engineers dealing with solid structures, but they also show up in other arenas like the stock market.

Starting in 2007, this all changed, as delineated by the red vertical line.  It was hard to understand this change as it was occurring at the time, but easier to see now that we have the luxury of looking back at the historical data.  What appears to have happened beginning in 2007 was that the length of this cycle contracted dramatically, for both the major cycle and the mid-cycle periods.

One of the reasons why it was so difficult to understand this change in period as it was occurring in real time is because of another trait of this cycle, which is known as a "phase shift".  In my historical research, I have identified the 9-month cycle as working on the stock market all the way back into the 1960s, although curiously not so much before then.  One of the more interesting behaviors of this cycle over that time period is that about every 6-8 years, the 9-month cycle would seem to skip a beat, and then start up again on some new schedule.  Here is a great example of this behavior:



In the lower portion of this chart, there is a modified sine wave pattern to help visualize the behavior of the cycle in the SP500's price movements.  The market was following this cycle pattern very nicely up until late 2005, and then it jumped onto a new schedule that just happened to be about a half cycle length off of the original schedule.

So with the knowledge that a phase shift was a possibility with this cycle, it was hard to understand what was happening in early 2008.  And this illustrates one of the big pitfalls with doing any sort of cycle analysis: cycles can change, and so while they may give us nice predictions of what should happen at some point in the future, there is no guarantee that the past behavior will remain in effect in the future.

It just so happens that 2007 was when this cycle changed, and it was also the year that the uptick rule for shorting stocks went away.  It is hard to understand why a rule change like this could make a difference on a market cycle, but I have an explanation that may help.

Imagine a wave pool in a laboratory, where scientists create waves to study how they travel through the water.  Now imagine that you remove all of the water, and replace it with 30-weight motor oil.  Because the oil is lighter but more viscous than the water, the behavior of waves in that wave pool would understandably be different.

So thinking of the financial markets, if the regulators were to do something that changes the "viscosity of money", making it flow more or less easily, then we would likely see changes in the way that waves propagate through that medium as well.  Such changes might include restrictions on shorting stocks, the advent of money market funds, the introduction of stock index futures and options, leveraged ETFs, etc.  All of these affect the ease with which money can flow into and through the stock market.

Now, if you look back at the top chart, you can see that the blue numbers are getting bigger again lately.  Those numbers represent the time period between the major lows of this cycle (formerly known as 9-month).  The lowest number was 159 trading days in early 2008, and it has climbed back all the way up to 177 as of the latest major cycle price low.  It may be that after the initial shock, this cycle is working on getting back up to is "natural" frequency.  Or it may be that 159 and 177 are just the widest extremes of a new range of cycle periods that average more like 168 trading days, and that this is the new natural frequency.  We won't know for sure for several more cycles' worth of time, and that's the big problem with this analytical technique.

For what it's worth, and to help your planning, 159 to 177 trading days from the most recent major cycle low equates to a timeframe of Oct. 31 to Nov. 25, 2011.

Advanced GET's Cycle-tool suggests this was the 9 Month Cycle crest. However, the tool is not adjusted according to Tom McClellan's findings.