Well, about 2 weeks out, and I’m thinking that major bottom signal didn’t take. It looked very promising for a few days out, but the market looks shaky again. I’m guessing we’ll see at least one more signal before this is done. 
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A few people accidentally reported your post instead of the other one so yours got hidden too…I restored it - that’s why you got the email and it was still there.
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I would think there’s a good chance Jim’s MBT would fire again today at market close. Anyone else had that thought?
It’s interesting that GOOG opened at a new 52 week low this morning and is now up 5% from that low. The mood of the market has been so bad recently that I wonder if the inflation news was sufficiently not bad enough to trigger a rally. We’ll see if this has legs tomorrow and going into next week, but we might be looking at a bottom starting to form here.
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For me, today had more of a “bottom feeling” to it than Sept 29 when Jim’s detector triggered (topic of this thread). I seem to recall a sharp sell-off with a roaring intra-day rally as signaling the end of the 2007-09 bull. Or maybe I’m thinking of the 2002 bottom. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
Sadly, Jim kindly communicated to me that neither his short term nor major bottom signal has triggered since close Sept 29. So that does not offer confirmation of my “gut feelings”.
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I’m following the Fed here. On a Macro level, rising rates and quantitative tightening are starting to have an impact on the US economy and world wide foreign exchange rates. Fed’s is projecting .75% increase just before the election. Also need to look at what’s happening in Europe; Pension fund defaults, lack of energy; etc. -I actually sold some stocks into the strong market this afternoon. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m a buyer again below $260. Just trying to keep my powder dry in case we see some extreme deals in the next 6 months.
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May have finally triggered today.
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What makes you think it triggered again today? Isn’t the first major bottom trigger enough?
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I say again. There is no bottom detector, no top detector.
Ignore this nonsense.
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As Jim often shared, the “Major Bottom Detector” can trigger several times in cascading succession. This happened in 2008-2009. Someone on this board or the MI board recently shared a link to a graph Jim posted showing the historical trigger points. So there’s precedent for a 2nd (or nth) trigger occurring at lower prices than the 1st.
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I suspect that if you mean no one has devised a bottom (top) detector that will exactly identify each market bottom (top) then you are correct.
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KANTROWITZ PIPER SANDLER. VERY GOOD
1.Was yesterday the bottom? No*. We encourage you to read our note on chasing bear market rallies that we published last week after the market ripped ~6% in two days (and then subsequently gave it all back). We’ll continue to be very transparent on what we’re looking for to call an end to this bear market (lower rates, better housing and PMI data). I don’t want to be the boy that cries “bottom” every time we see market volatility. We still have an eco and eps recession to deal with in 2023, as we digest the tightening of 2022. It’s far from over according to our PROCESS. Would it be nice to see a bear market rally in the last two months of the year, of course! Just don’t lose focus of the big picture – we couldn’t be farther from a bottom in housing, or the start of a new HOPE cycle. Managing risks in a bear market is more important than being bearish.
- The Bulls: “Markets bottom with peak CPI”
Our take: Markets only bottom with “Peak inflation” when it comes with a side of ECONOMIC RECOVERY- The Bulls: “Everybody is bearish, there is nobody left to sell.”
Our take**:** 1) fund flows have barely declined in 2022; 2) AAII Equity Exposure Still At 62% (and going lower).- The Bulls: “We’re heading for a soft landing”.
Our take: 100% of the time you’ve had a recession when the 1) Fed hiked; 2) Food & Energy Inflation >5%; and 3) banks tightened lending standards. We’ve got all 3 today.- The Bulls: “Housing – this isn’t 2008”.
Our take: That’s right, it’s 2022. 1) Rates are higher; 2) units under construction are at a record; 3) affordability is at all-time lows. It won’t be a credit crisis like 2008 (look overseas for potential credit crises), but we won’t see a quick recovery in housing either.- The Bulls: “Earnings Are Good So Far”.
Markets bottom with 1) stimulus; and then 3)improving leading MACRO data (Housing Starts, ISM).
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Noble. Ex Fidelity
-20-50% from here:
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Jim’s bottom indicators were good things to pay attention to. Markets up 14% in October. I love that the approach is to do better than a coin toss. No claims that it is infallable or that it will always be right. But that you can use data to make more informed decisions that tilt odds in your favor. I didn’t bet the farm using this sign, but I did say consistently in market and avoided trying to make any short term bearish bets.
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Jim’s bottom indicators were good things to pay attention to. Markets up 14% in October.
That can’t be correct. Divi said Jim’s indicators are nonsense.
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There are many things to recommend Divi but his dislike for Jim is not one of them. There is lots to learn there. We can all agree to disagree without having to disparage.
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I’d be amazed if we’ve seen a bottom, having read my stock market history I’d consider the recent uptick another bout of optimism before a further grind down what with increasing interest rate rises and outlook etc leading to market readjustment. Someone commented that we’ll know when we’ve reached the bottom when people have necome bearish on Apple and it’s sold off.
Personally im just DCA into some names I like at reasonable valuations, Apple definately isn’t one. 10 year 12% return price target is $90 per share.
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I didn’t pivot very much as a result of the post about the bottom detector, but I appreciated it. Pretty much I just held onto what I owned. But it helped me to stay resolved about that rather than selling anything. And on the margin, I bought a couple of things that have done extremely well from the bottom, but they weren’t done at any scale. I am girding for a bumpy period.
Having said that, I am not as convinced that the market has another large round to go of deep decline the way people like GMO believe. I know why they believe that and can appreciate where the belief comes from when I see our currently interest rate level and valuations from things like CAPE. But I see individual stocks that I follow trading at what seems like very attractive valuations. BRK included. This is the first time it’s felt that way in years. So I can’t quite resolve the discrepancy mentally but there are things that seem worth investing in now as a conservative value oriented investor.
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Am I missing something obvious?, still above 2000 and 2007
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