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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

July 18

This corrective wave continues to be inscrutable to me.

The 60-minute system is still getting faked out / thrown around. Because we keep getting spike bottoms and tops on no divergence. So I am getting no normal exit signals and only emergency signals.

Oddly, my 15-minute system (which I stopped publishing in Oct 2011) is working quite well in this environment. There is just enough volatile non-trending movement with divergences that manifest on the 15-min timeframe that it can take advantage of and is giving clear signals.

The last few signals from the 15-minute system:


S/L           OPEN      PRICE        CLOSE      PRICE   GAIN
SHORT   5/30/2012 9:45  132.17  6/4/2012 14:30  127.91  3.22%
LONG    6/4/2012 14:30  127.91  6/7/2012 15:15  132.45  3.55%
SHORT   6/7/2012 15:15  132.45  6/14/2012 11:30 133.15  -0.53%
LONG    6/14/2012 11:30 133.15  6/20/2012 9:45  135.49  1.76%
SHORT   6/20/2012 9:45  135.49  6/25/2012 15:15 131.41  3.01%
LONG    6/25/2012 15:15 131.41  6/28/2012 9:30  132.25  0.64%
SHORT   6/28/2012 9:30  132.25  6/28/2012 15:45 132.79  -0.41%
LONG    6/28/2012 15:45 132.79  7/5/2012 9:45   136.82  3.03%
SHORT   7/5/2012 9:45   136.82  7/12/2012 14:00 133.75  2.24%
LONG    7/12/2012 14:00 133.75  7/16/2012 10:30 135.06  0.98%
SHORT   7/16/2012 10:30 135.06  7/17/2012 12:15 135.98  -0.68%
LONG    7/17/2012 12:15 135.98  open


Based on the phasing of signals, I would expect a roll-over in the next couple of days. This would be consistent with my 'corrective' 60-min MACD setting in the chart below.

I still think the move up is very corrective and this is my best (and likely incorrect) guess as to what's happening.

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