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Technical Market Report for January 25, 2014

The good news is:
• The mid and small cap indices closed at all time highs last Wednesday.


The negatives

Negatives are still hard to find.

Last weeks pull back followed the bull market script perfectly developing very few new lows and the blue chips leading the way down.


The positives

Prior to major tops there is usually deterioration of the breadth indicators and the secondaries underperform the blue chips. We have seen none of that.

Advance - Decline lines (ADL) are a running total of declining issues subtracted from advancing issues. The ADL calculated from NYSE issues (NY ADL) has been the primary breadth indicator for many decades. Until 10-15 years ago it had a modestly negative bias which indicated weakness near market tops. The composition of issues on the NYSE began changing about 25 years ago with in increase in the number of fixed income issues traded on the exchange. Fixed income issues accumulate value daily until they go ex dividend when they take a loss in the amount of the dividend. Because of this, ADL's calculated from fixed income issues have a wildly positive bias. Currently about 50% on the issues on the NYSE are fixed income giving the NY ADL an extraordinarily positive bias.

The chart below covers the past 40 years showing the S&P 500 (SPX) in red and the NY ADL in blue. Dashed vertical lines have been drawn on the 1st trading day of each year.

You can see how the character of the NY ADL changed sharply around 2000 when the FED began serious manipulation of interest rates.

SPX versus NYSE ADL 1970-2014 Chart

The NASDAQ has not been infested with a large number of fixed income issues so it has remained pretty consistent. The issue with the NASDAQ ADL is it has had an extremely negative bias.

The next chart is similar to the one above except it shows the NASDAQ composite (OTC) in blue and the OTC ADL in green.

OTC versus OTC ADL 1970-2014 Chart

The next chart is similar to the one above except it covers the past 10 years. The negative bias is apparent as the OTC ADL made its all time low a little over a year ago.

OTC versus OTC ADL Daily Chart

The next chart is similar to those above except it covers the past year and dashed vertical lines have been drawn on the 1st trading day of each month.

The point of this windy exercise is the OTC ADL hit a multi year high last Wednesday so, by this indicator with its traditionally negative bias, the market is in good shape.

OTC versus OTC ADL Weekly Chart

The next chart is one I usually show covering the past 6 months showing the OTC in blue and a 40% trend (4 day EMA) of NASDAQ new highs divided by new highs + new lows (OTC HL Ratio) in red. Dashed vertical lines have been drawn on the 1st trading day of each month and dashed horizontal lines have been drawn at 10% levels for the indicator, the line is solid at the neutral 50% level.

OTC HL Ratio tumbled to, a still strong, 76% on Thursday and Friday of last week.

OTC versus OTC HL Ratio Chart

The next chart is similar to the one above except it shows the SPX in red and NY HL Ratio, in blue, has been calculated from NYSE data.

NY HL Ratio dropped to 60% on Friday.

SPX versus NYSE HL Ratio Chart


Seasonality

Next week includes the last 5 trading days of January during the 2nd year of the Presidential Cycle.

The tables show the daily percentage return for the last 5 trading days of January during the 2nd year of the Presidential Cycle.

OTC data covers the period from 1963 - 2013 while SPX data runs from 1928 - 2013. There are summaries for both the 2nd year of the Presidential Cycle and all years combined.

The averages for the coming week have been modestly positive, except the OTC which has been modestly weaker during the 2nd year of the Presidential Cycle than all years combined.

Report for the last 5 days of January.
The number following the year represents its position in the Presidential Cycle.
The number following the daily return represents the day of the week;
1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday etc.

OTC Presidential Year 2
  Day5 Day4 Day3 Day2 Day1 Totals
1966-2 -0.07% 2 0.27% 3 -0.08% 4 0.02% 5 0.27% 1 0.40%
1970-2 -0.20% 1 -0.84% 2 -0.73% 3 -1.14% 4 -1.94% 5 -4.85%
 
1974-2 -0.22% 5 -0.40% 1 -0.48% 2 0.65% 3 -0.25% 4 -0.71%
1978-2 0.33% 3 -0.34% 4 0.09% 5 0.35% 1 -0.13% 2 0.30%
1982-2 -1.24% 1 -0.06% 2 0.09% 3 1.44% 4 1.17% 5 1.39%
1986-2 0.41% 1 0.74% 2 0.63% 3 -0.12% 4 0.43% 5 2.09%
1990-2 -0.10% 4 -0.92% 5 -0.76% 1 -1.77% 2 1.24% 3 -2.31%
Avg -0.16% -0.20% -0.09% 0.11% 0.49% 0.15%
 
1994-2 -0.54% 2 0.31% 3 0.52% 4 0.46% 5 0.49% 1 1.24%
1998-2 -0.91% 1 1.08% 2 2.05% 3 0.53% 4 0.00% 5 2.76%
2002-2 -0.25% 5 0.32% 1 -2.62% 2 1.08% 3 1.08% 4 -0.39%
2006-2 -0.20% 3 0.99% 4 0.93% 5 0.11% 1 -0.04% 2 1.78%
2010-2 0.25% 1 -0.32% 2 0.80% 3 -1.91% 4 -1.45% 5 -2.63%
Avg -0.33% 0.48% 0.34% 0.06% 0.02% 0.55%
 
OTC summary for Presidential Year 2 1966 - 2010
Averages -0.23% 0.07% 0.03% -0.02% 0.07% -0.08%
% Winners 25% 50% 58% 67% 50% 58%
MDD 1/30/1970 4.76% -- 1/30/1990 3.51% -- 1/29/2010 3.33%
 
OTC summary for all years 1963 - 2013
Averages -0.02% 0.19% 0.17% -0.08% 0.25% 0.49%
% Winners 46% 61% 63% 54% 65% 59%
MDD 1/28/2000 6.73% -- 1/30/2009 5.26% -- 1/30/1970 4.76%
 
SPX Presidential Year 2
  Day5 Day4 Day3 Day2 Day1 Totals
1930-2 -0.09% 1 -0.50% 2 1.13% 3 0.54% 4 1.42% 5 2.51%
 
1934-2 -0.90% 5 -0.09% 6 1.63% 1 1.25% 2 -1.41% 3 0.48%
1938-2 -3.83% 3 -1.39% 4 -0.85% 5 -0.38% 6 1.71% 1 -4.73%
1942-2 0.22% 2 -0.67% 3 -0.22% 4 -0.67% 5 -0.45% 6 -1.79%
1946-2 0.06% 6 2.87% 1 0.27% 2 -0.59% 3 0.05% 4 2.66%
1950-2 -0.06% 4 0.54% 5 0.48% 6 0.71% 1 0.18% 2 1.84%
Avg -0.90% 0.25% 0.26% 0.06% 0.02% -0.31%
 
1954-2 0.31% 1 0.62% 2 -0.31% 3 0.04% 4 0.23% 5 0.89%
1958-2 -0.29% 1 0.10% 2 0.60% 3 -0.48% 4 0.05% 5 -0.02%
1962-2 -0.07% 4 -0.32% 5 -0.34% 1 0.40% 2 0.98% 3 0.65%
1966-2 0.15% 2 -0.16% 3 -0.03% 4 -0.38% 5 -0.46% 1 -0.89%
1970-2 -1.01% 1 -0.62% 2 -0.95% 3 -1.27% 4 -0.78% 5 -4.63%
Avg -0.18% -0.08% -0.20% -0.34% 0.00% -0.80%
 
1974-2 -0.20% 5 -0.56% 1 -0.08% 2 1.09% 3 -0.50% 4 -0.25%
1978-2 0.16% 3 -0.91% 4 0.00% 5 0.86% 1 -0.10% 2 0.01%
1982-2 0.03% 1 -0.19% 2 0.48% 3 2.75% 4 1.24% 5 4.30%
1986-2 0.47% 1 1.17% 2 0.23% 3 -0.46% 4 1.17% 5 2.57%
1990-2 -1.27% 4 -0.09% 5 -0.18% 1 -0.68% 2 1.89% 3 -0.33%
Avg -0.16% -0.11% 0.09% 0.71% 0.74% 1.26%
 
1994-2 -0.22% 2 0.48% 3 0.81% 4 0.35% 5 0.61% 1 2.03%
1998-2 -0.07% 1 1.26% 2 0.87% 3 0.82% 4 -0.53% 5 2.36%
2002-2 0.10% 5 -0.02% 1 -2.86% 2 1.17% 3 1.49% 4 -0.11%
2006-2 -0.17% 3 0.72% 4 0.78% 5 0.12% 1 -0.40% 2 1.04%
2010-2 0.46% 1 -0.42% 2 0.49% 3 -1.18% 4 -0.98% 5 -1.64%
Avg 0.02% 0.41% 0.02% 0.25% 0.04% 0.74%
 
SPX summary for Presidential Year 2 1930 - 2010
Averages -0.30% 0.09% 0.09% 0.19% 0.26% 0.33%
% Winners 43% 38% 52% 57% 57% 57%
MDD 1/29/1938 6.33% -- 1/30/1970 4.55% -- 1/29/2002 2.88%
 
SPX summary for all years 1928 - 2013
Averages -0.03% 0.14% 0.07% 0.07% 0.26% 0.50%
% Winners 52% 52% 50% 59% 63% 58%
MDD 1/29/1938 6.33% -- 1/30/2009 5.52% -- 1/30/1932 5.05%


Conclusion

As soon as I complained of the summer doldrums in January the market snapped out of it. The blue chip indices were down every day last week while the secondaries notched all time highs on Wednesday before joining the blue chips for a losing week. Strong breadth indicators suggest this is just a pull back in a bull market and it should be over soon.

I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday January 31 than they were on Friday January 24.

Last weeks positive forecast was a miss

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