We do not expect an immediate second plunge of the stock
market until at least next week. Most
investors do not recognize that the US
economy has peaked and do not believe China
can pull the US
down. We have a DJI floor of 15871 and
other floors under the other averages that will not be broken today. Too many investors still think the “stupid
party” has turned the economy around and they do not understand that QE is what
flooded the stock market with cash and it will take time for the market to lose
all that cash.
Walmart
cut employee hours to save money and avoid Obama’s socialist health care program
costs. Their big ego socialist CEO
favors forcing church marriages for NAMBLA members over freedom of religion. He works for what has now become a corrupt
crony capitalist company that avoids social responsibilities that decent and
moral corporation boards insist upon.
Construction
spending finally reached the level it had during the Bush administration ten
years ago in 2005. The Obama
administration has falsely claimed there has been a US
economic recovery while blaming China
and Europe currency moves for the flat lined data. You have to be stupid to believe the stupid
party.
http://www.martincapital.com/index.php?page=graph&view=construction
The pace of
growth in the U.S.
manufacturing sector slowed in August to its weakest in over two years,
according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Its index of national factory activity fell
to 51.1 from 52.7 the month before, marking the lowest reading in twenty seven
months. The reading was lower than expected give all the Obama hype about his
imaginary American recovery.
August 31, 2015 When something sounds too good to be true,
it usually is. Funds, which typically
promised low interest rates but safety amid turmoil, have mostly failed to
deliver prompting investors to pull their money out. These funds, grew rapidly in the face of
growing fears of rising interest rates in 2013, but have lost 0.7 percent in
the past month and 1.4 percent in the past year, according to Morningstar Inc.
data. As for reliable U.S. government
bonds they a gained 0.2 percent during August, while stocks globally plunged
5.9 percent.
This current
rally will probably last another week. We
estimate there will be about four more bear market intervals with three as much
as -15% each before a new bull market begins.
Suddenly most of the commentators are flip-flopping negative. Jim Cramer has suddenly become very
pessimistic and is doing his best to rationalize why he did not see a bear
market coming. Consumer sentiment is not as high now as it
was when the last bear market began in 2007.
In China the
communists are now rounding up people who have negative views of the Chinese
economy. We who live in the free-world
are so fortunate. Like a field worker,
when an economy works hard it perspires waste and gets filthy with waste. It must take a pause for a bath, to rest, and
to plan for another day. Some make fatal
errors and long for the days when everyone foraged each day and did not wear
themselves out. Corporations need to
take a bath now.
Bulls minus
bears is approach zero meaning more people are still joining the sellers all
the time so it is getting less likely any rally will be significant.
It is
unlikely that gold will begin to rebound for one or two years. China
and India
have vast stockpiles to unload at higher prices.
Developing
countries are now suffering historic losses.
August 28, 2015 We examined earlier rallies in bear markets
typically they rise 5% to 7% over two to three weeks. This however has been a relatively short but
dramatic decline so investors may be inclined to think this first decline of
the new bear market may not be over.
That is why the first rally in a bear market could last another week or
two and not even wipe out the first decline.
In the mean time the Obama administration continues to release economic
nonsense. The FED must slightly raise
their rates soon or lose all credibility because raising rates will allow them
to reload their ammunition to fight recession.
Therefore the new economic optimistic nonsense of a 3.7% 2nd Quarter GDP
rate should allow the FED to claim victory and raise rates just before the next
leg of this bearish Stock market kicks in.
Durable Orders
Jul 2.0% fell -3.5% from 3.4% last month.
Continuing Claims
Aug rose to 2269K from 2254K
Pending Home
Sales Jul recovered 0.5% of the -1.8% loss last month but is still down 1.3%
from May.
Yet, GDP – The
Second Estimate for Q2 was raised to +3.7% from +2.3%. Therefore we predict the FED will act in
September. So far Quantitative Easing
did little but make the rich richer and the poor and uneducated, poorer and
more unemployable. Nationalist Crony
Capitalist Socialists and Communists have used work concentration camps that
make slaves of the poor and lazy to punish that behavior. Liberal national crony capitalist socialists
encourage more fatherless families with their welfare system. Socialism is gradually rotting America and the
West morally and ethically.
August 25, 2015 Yesterday the Dow was down 1000 points and
today it was down another 200 after buyers got nervous again. We estimate that all the money that went into
the American stock markets since February 2, 2013 flowed back out in this past
week. That is based on our Market Cash
Flow analysis. But so far this panic
gave a smaller percentage decline and smaller cash outflow than the panic in
July of 2011. And that will be exactly what
many pundits will be saying in a few weeks when there will be a small
rally. But don’t believe them. The coming rally may recover 50% to 75% of
the decline and fool many investors. But
the short sellers will be out in force again and that small rally will likely
be the only significant rally until sometime between January and April
2016.
When the
current rally ends we expect the next new low that is hit this year will be the
one when Jim Cramer and others say sell-sell-sell. The current decline will quite likely be
followed by three or four larger declines before the truth comes out that we
are in another “Obama Recession.” Of
course Obama will blame it on someone else but everyone in the world knows this
administration has been the most incompetent in American history and has shown
no leadership and given no hope of continuing world peace. Given another year in office Obama could even
turn the recession into a depression or precipitate WWIII.
Today it
became evident that Donald Trump’s message is getting stale and he is losing
his audience after 15 minutes to boredom.
After 15 minutes most were not paying attention and many were talking to
each other. Trump is getting over
exposed and needs more ideas or fewer national speeches.
Alibaba has
lost about half its market value since the IPO.
If China wants to
truly advance and join the US
and Europe they need to give Hong Kong their
democratic self government back. It is
interesting and a very good sign that China has stopped building islands
that encroach on the free international water channels. The Chinese are wonderful people and have
done well in America . Perhaps this recent bad experience China has had manipulating their stock market
will encourage their government to give self-determination back to Hong Kong ! Then China probably
would not stagnate but would likely have the spirit necessary to be successful
with free-enterprise economics.
Obama does
not have a Teflon coat and that is why he uses court orders to hide his
past. He seems to hate the American
founding fathers and that tells a lot about his lack of intelligence and
character. Most Americans are just
ignorant of our American foundation in laws but apparently Obama thinks the
worst about the founders. Obama acts
like he doesn’t know that slavery and genocide are still rampant in Africa today.
Before 1830, during British slave trade, the tribes in Africa
sold their neighboring tribal prisoners to the British instead of just
decapitating them or burning them alive as many of their religion still do to
their neighboring enemies today. The
British saved many Africans from certain death until 1830 when they stopped the
trade. Slavery in America was better than living in Africa and
better than even living today in Africa, Syria
or Pakistan
as virtual religious slaves. The “stupid
party” members are mentally slaves and too ignorant to know how lucky we are to
live in a free western country like America . It is a failure of universities that are run
by socialists. They are still a
minority in America
and if we are going to continue our free-enterprise system of our founding
fathers we must take back our country from the stupid party socialists in 2016.
August 24, 2015 At the present moment many investors have
come to realize a bear market is in place.
But mental conditioning has started again. The DJI was down over 1000 points this
morning scaring the pants off of investors but it recovered most of that
already. The options market was frozen
early in the morning as margin calls wiped out many investors. It is predictable that when this selloff is
over many investors will be conditioned to think it was only a correction and
the Bull market is still in place. That
will give the big funds another chance to unload more stocks and to go
short. But the run up this time will
likely be perhaps only one to three weeks and the next selloff will be much
longer and deeper. Again it is likely
that the broad NYSE will end down 60% to 90% off its high some time between
February and April 2016. Margin calls
will increase.
By noon
this bear was already being downplayed as a flash crash or discounted as a
capitulation. DOW 19,000 this year was
being forecast by Siegel and Jim Cramer got a statement from Tim Cook that
Apple was having high sales in China
so China
must be doing well! What, me worry? Not mad men and Jim Cramer! Tim Cook is the last person any intelligent
person would listen to. The people
screaming about the FED raising rates are heavily in debt and will be wiped
out. Companies like Apple have used
funds to buy back stock to reduce outstanding stock and fool investors into
thinking they are sound because they reduced their PE ratio. Once rates begin to rise the cost of debt is
going to weigh down the stocks of incompetent CEO’s who have bought back their
stocks and then need to borrow.
Therefore,
we could get a rally of many depressed stocks but we believe the Bull market’s
death leap will be short and a dangerous play.
Any rally is a time to get out, not get in, unless you have an exit plan
in place. Even Put and Option trading
froze up this morning.