Friday 18 September 2009
Where is the supply? Where is the supply?!!
We have been looking for supply to come into this market in the declines in price
attended by high volume numbers, and that has not happened. It appeared to
have occurred on 1 September on the sharp price drop and volume spike, but that
turned out to be a head fake.
Most people do not know how to properly read volume, for smart money does not
like to show its hand. However, we maintain that volume HAS to tip off what smart
money is doing, no matter how cleverly deft the attempt to cover their tracks. That is the beauty of reading market activity!
Yesterday’s close in the S & P, was a new high, relatively smaller range, and a
slightly lower close that was under the opeing and under mid-range of the bar. All
of these little signs add up to weakness, not strength, as new highs were being
registered. If the market were truly strong, the range would have extended
higher, price would have closed above the open and above the previous close.
None of those events happened, a red flag, and it puts past information into a
different light.
A chart of the NASDAQ is also included for what now makes sense of a sign of
“smart money” selling their longs. The highest volume in many weeks, amidst
several days of increased volume, barely made any progress to the upside. There
was a huge effort, [volume], that was only 500 tics above the two previous days’
cluster closings. When closes begin to cluster, it is a sign of struggle. Note that
the very next day on the NAS chart was still high volume, but the range was very
small for all the effort. This tells us that sellers were entering the market,
overwhelming buyers by preventing the range from extending higher.
Here we had been looking for price declines on high volume as evidence that
supply, [selling] was flexing its muscle, while the sly “smart money people” were
hiding their selling activity by increasing their sales on the way up, feeding their line to weaker buyers. This is called a changing of hands from strong to weak buyers,
for one thing smart money does NOT do is buy high. Who buys high? Listen to all
these talking heads on financial TV networks exhorting the public to get back into
the market as these fools preen in front of the camera effusively championing the
higher prices.
Idiots! “Come into my web,” said the spider to the fly.
Little pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, even with the alignment of the
stars that auger a negative environment for markets. We think this read on
volume, starting with that day that stands out from Monday, 14 September, on the
NASDAQ is the key for reading the present tense market results.
There needs to be confirmation, and that will come in the form of declines that no
longer recover lost ground. This is not an invitation to go short, but moving up
stops on any long positions, jetisoning all weaker performers, and eventually any
long that starts to give back gains should certainly be given a higher priority.
We are beginning to see a turn, but it needs confirmation is the bottom line.
