by Don Vialoux, EquityClock.com
Interesting Charts
Grain prices continue to recover from deeply oversold levels.
Greece equities are moving in the opposite direction. Tough financial negotiations with the Troika!
Copper finally is showing technical signs of bottoming.
StockTwits Yesterday @equityclock
Technicals on S&P stocks to 11:00 AM: Bearish. Stocks breaking resistance:$DE,$BCR, $EIX,$PNW. Stocks breaking support: $TSO,$WFC,$AET,$CI,$JNJ,$YHOO,$CF,$SRE
$DE is responding to higher grain prices. Nice breakout! ‘Tis the season for strength!
Negative response to $JNJ report! A break below support.
Negative response to $WFC report! Break below support.
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By the close yesterday, 15 S&P stocks had broken support and 4 had broken resistance.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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COMMENTS:
As we indicated recently in these pages, strength continues in Canadian and US fixed income and other defensive sectors such as utilities, consumer staples and healthcare. On the country level India and Thailand rank high on both the monthly and weekly tables, and of note, just out of the top 5 rankings is a rising China from both absolute and relative performance.
CHARTS of the WEEK
TSX Composite Index
With commodities apparently first hit over the summer from a strong US dollar (commodities are priced in USD) and now from apparent reduced demand the TSX looks vulnerable to further downside to around 13,000 or 6-7% lower. At present our Toronto 10 stock portfolio is on 53% cash. The portfolio began raising cash in early July.
S&P 500 Index
The US market looks to have support near at hand though a significant break down from current levels would bring in the mid-1600 level on the S&P or 12% lower. Many indicators on a monthly basis are just now beginning to turn down. At present our S&P 10 stock portfolio on 58% cash. The portfolio began raising cash in early July.
Rates
Interest rates keep pushing lower against a backdrop of a significant majority of analysts and economists who see rates rising to “normal levels”. The recent break of 2.35 (red line) brings in the 2.00% level then a test of the lows of 1.50% in 2012. The dynamic between bonds and commodities is interesting in that they both maybe reflecting slower corporate growth and GDP.
US 20+ Yr Treasury Bonds
According both US and CDN (see below) instruments continue to reflect a bullish trend by breaking to new highs.
Canada Government Bonds
We continues to raise our stop levels on both US and CDN fixed income (trailing) to protect profits in our +30% allocation to the asset class.
TSX Capped Energy
The energy sector has been socked pretty badly. CastleMoore sold all its pure energy plays in June and July upon confirmation of some technical breaks. The same goes for energy services. We have been more patient with energy infrastructure (not shown) until recently when it became clear the weakness in the energy space was not simply due to the strong US dollar or seasonality distortion but also demand.
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