Dow Jones Industrials 9,240, Here We Come (November 30, 2010)

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Dow Jones Industrials 9,240, Here We Come   (November 30, 2010)


Six charts illustrate a weakening stock market.



Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but it's fun to predict anyway. With that caveat: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) 9,240, Here We Come. That's about a 16% decline from its current level around the psychologically important 11,000 level.

What is the basis of my foolhardy prediction of a 16% decline in the stock market? Let's start with a 10-day chart of the DJIA, which clearly shows the Plunge Protection Team's rapid backfilling of any decline. But alas, the downtrend is painfully obvious:



If we look at a 5-year chart of the DJIA, we see unmistakable signs of weakness. Despite a nominal new high in November, RSI and MACD are both showing major divergence, declining even as price hit new highs.



The bands of support and resistance are clear as well, and the 9,240 target is solidly within the lower band. The resistance-support between 11,000 and 11,300 goes back to 2006 and even earlier to 2001 (not shown).

If the DJIA busts through 11,000, it's look out below.

As I have noted here numerous times, the US dollar (DXY) and the US stock market have been on a see-saw: when the dollar drops, stocks rise, and vice versa. Here we see the US dollar in a breakout mode, with a bullish cross of the 20-day moving average through the 50-day MA:

Though the Volatility Index (VIX) has been muted compared to its rampage higher in the Eursozone Debt Crisis Part 1 in May, we can discern a rising MACD and other evidence that volatility may not stay low.

The megaphone pattern suggests an increase in uncertainty as the swings up and down get more violent: the volatility of volatility is rising.

The S&P 500 certainly looks like it's traced out a big fat double top, and the indicators are diverging massively from the "happy story" rally. Price won't stay trapped between the 20-day moving average and the 50-day MA for long, and thre probing below the 50-day that occurred yesterday looks like the skirmish line of a full assault.

http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov10/DJI ... 11-10.html