2008 - What A Year!

Its the end of the year and looking back on this year, I am sure that no one would have expected what played out. Not to this extent. I expected some kind of top at 5800 and sold out on all my long positions and went flat....Market continued upward without me but I was content since we can never expect to catch the last 10% of any big move...Not unless you are very nimble. 

The end of the bull run was marked by the famous Reliance Power IPO...Retail went crazy at the time this one came out and even though I warned all my friends not to put any money in this they still went ahead...loosing most of their money in the process. The day the IPO came out marked the bull market top and never looked back. Has retail learned their lesson? I think not. They still listen to the CNBC clowns - even now. Folks its not a bottom. Their is no such thing as a V bottom. It will take time.

So what do I expect 2009 to bring? It will be bittersweet for sure. The first half is bound to be bad..I expect we shall see new lows...Then after this one super bear market rally. Again pundits will come out calling a new bull market....Will it be? Maybe...But lets take it one step at a time...We will surely go through a basing process over the next 12-18 months...Ups and downs...But there will be super rallies to play...Lets be a trader for some more time and try to catch these big moves before turning on our investment mentality again. 2010-2011 may be the time another bull market starts. Now this is all speculation...But this is my expectation.

Okay enough of raving...Lets go the charts and more closer stuff...Chart with comments attached below. In the post below this one, I mentioned it was good to short at those levels since we were close to the upper area of the channel. Its in good profits right now...What next? My expectations and comments are on the chart. Enjoy.

Once we set this important low in Feb-Mar 2009 timeframe, I expect we shall get a huge rally from the lows...which may be around 1800-2000 on Nifty...this rally should happen into late 2009...maybe a 100% rally also...But let us see that when we get there.

Best and Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Range and some very interesting charts

Well folks...I got some free time now...so did some analysis and am putting up some charts here with comments...This is very interesting stuff...Dont miss to go through the comments and the studies...If this call plays out, it will be quite an amazing move...!

First the sensex chart I posted in earlier post updated now.

Nifty log...Is this a wedge? Not clear enough to call.

Now the main chart...All comments here...Study closely and leave comments if you like it! :)

Cheers and All the Best!

Merry Christmas!

Well guys this bear market rally has continued much more than I expected and I feel quite drained..I am however still medium term bearish...Even though tired and exhausted with this market...Being year end and Christmas, I am taking a few days break from the markets..I am leaving some short positions still on but not trading around them anymore...I leave you with some good long term charts for your study...I have not added much comments but you can check them out...see the important t-lines and price areas of importance I have marked on the charts..Anyone with basic TA knowledge can make out what I am trying to say here :-) 

Enjoy...

First Chart - Monthly Sensex Very Long Term....Still in a nice bullish channel. Will we test the bottom area of the channel in 2009?

A closer look of same chart but on a weekly scale. 

An even more closer look. Notice the area of importance price is now approaching. Good short point with appropriate stops.

Stay safe out there and Wish you all a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Best.

When sudden realization sets in....

When the music stops, who will be left holding the bag? 

To me the past few days look like distribution than anything else. Optimism is back. The public is being trained to buy the dips. 

FIIs are buying again...So it seems. Hasnt anything changed fundamentally? Has it become better?

I think IT is showing whats in store for the broader market....very soon...

Chart of Infy first -

Same charts of nifty as I posted before...but updated..and latest comments...Has anything changed?

Log chart...Same story here also.

Best,

A very bearish Lee.

Resolution Time?

Sorry guys..I know long time since a post...Well to tell the truth I have been busy..very busy past few days...Its that time of the year when all projects start rolling out...And well the markets to tell the truth, I have been frustrated by the moves..I did not get any good entries for my shorts...Some of them I have are under water...I did short a ton of 2900 Nifty calls and so some sort of pay back in them...

But I hope some of you stayed sane and out of trouble coz of my last post where I clearly mentioned thats its not wise to be long in this market..We are not at a bottom..Yet.

And still I was apalled again at some bloggers and gurus still calling for bullishness...The market obliged and created a bull trap by breaking above 2860...And then gapping below it today...

So what next...2860 remains the pivot...Longs should not exist below this level. Above this also, try shorting with stops...I remain bearish until I see signs of real capitulation.

Charts for your review - (As SS(Mr Timamo) adviced, I am adding charts with a closer look)

More to follow later. Stay safe out there. 

Best.

Whipsaw City

Covered all shorts today and went flat...Pretty decent profits and I do not want to let it go..I might be early but the market is displaying some strength by holding onto support levels. Will reshort at higher levels if a good bounce comes in else remaining flat...Not going long at all for now. As I said before, I dont like this market. Its whipsaw city and I'm not so sure anymore on direction!  :(

Charts to follow later.

Stay Nimble!

Best.

More to come

As I said last week, market was looking very dangerous. I was apalled at some bullish views coming in from various forums and blogs I frequent. To me it was clear that something dangerous was brewing and lot of small players will get caught on the wrong foot again. I sincerely hope that some of my readers took precautions with what they read here and did not go long yet.

Well as mentioned in my earlier update, I was looking for possible reversal points. I kept adding shorts as we went higher because it was clear that there was a buyers strike and bad things would come soon. Yesterday the market confirmed that with a strong rejection at the 2830 resistance/pivot area. Now back at support...2630 should break today giving way to the 2520 support area. I think this also will break sooner than later and we should go on to test earlier lows and new lows. Dec mid timeframe is where I will be looking for some sort of turn - This is also a bradley turn date. We will see when we get there. Till then enjoy the fall and these charts with comments on them.

Also my sincere wishes and prayers are with all involved in the nasty incident in Mumbai. I dont want to say anything more here but that I am really saddened by several things...The violence, the ineptness of our security forces and above all our politicians and media. Sickening to say the least. I will continue to hope for better times for India as a whole...Will it ever come?

Best.

Possible Reversal Points

Well 2520 turned out to be strong support and market bounced back from that area. I am totally flat now and looking to see if I can short at higher areas. Its risky business as market has some momentum now as is clearly evident from US markets today...BUT I still dont trust this upmove. Not yet. I want to see one more bottom...If its a higher bottom, it kinda seals the deal.

Chart below showing some possible paths and where I am going to be looking to short at. 

Its self explanatory...Short at your own risk however...!..Market has momentum now!  :)

Best.

Some Charts and EWT counts

Been a while since I posted some charts...But I have been mentioning here that I am more bearish than bullish and what I think would happen. Posting some charts here to substantiate this view and also show what I was seeing and why I became bearish. 

Below are 2 charts which show 2 different ewt counts and what is happening now. Either way we go down to test the lows and maybe more. But lets see how market negotiates 2520 and then 2250. 

EWT Count1

EWT Count2

Next here is the weekly chart. Comments on it. Overall things dont look good. I hope some people benefitted from my caution messages over the past few days. A reversal will happen but from which level? Its anyones guess. For me the market looks sick...And there is a buyers strike out there. Sentiment needs to turn before we can start some sort of rally.

Best.

Exit Longs and Going Short for next few days

Yesterday I exited all longs and went short around 2760 Nifty....I am hedged so will continue to hold even if we go higher.

Best.

Quick Update

Buying weakness yesterday worked but I am not so sure anymore. Today I will get rid of my longs and my hedge positions and go into cash for a few weeks..I think its a good idea to be out of the market next few weeks since moves either side are dangerous and can kill a positional trader. Day traders...well enjoy the volatility while it lasts.

Best.

Buying Opportunity

This week could be a good time to start slowly buying into the market...I will start buying back in small amounts daily...Essentially buying back what I sold at around 3200. These are tough markets to time and trade but I think we are close to some kind of value levels...Market even though going down, is not really crashing now. I say lets evaluate the moves today and buy for a good swing up. We are now holding inbetween the 61.8%-50% retracement levels. If market breaks the 2730 area, we can go down to 2640. This area should offer some excellent support going forward.

Will post again after a few days.

Cheers.

BOOM!

Well got the big selloff...Morning started with a 1-1.5% down and I used this area to get rid of almost all my longs and also shorted 3100 Nifty. 

6.66% down...When I got up today and saw this on the screen, I thought to myself...Man thats not a good omen!...Hmmnn...let us see...

So what next? Some bouncing about in a range is possible before we head a bit lower. But remember this is all part of the bottoming process and I also think we are finishing the last 5th wave of C. Today 2860-2850 needs to hold for some kind of rally to develop. If not, well God help the bulls. I will probably cover shorts today and just wait it out....Not going long here because of the uncertainty...Will again try to go short higher...But lets see that as we go along.

See this post I made some time back -

http://theindianmarketblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/rapidly-approaching-strong-confluence.html

We are still playing out this scenario...I am looking for one more major low in the next few weeks. Maybe December.

Updated Daily Chart for your study.

Best.

Are we done?

Is the rally over? Or close to over? For some time I am having this nagging thought in the back of my mind. The earlier decline held to the 38.2% retrace at 2860 and bounced back nicely. But now it could face very strong resistance to the upmove at around this 3180-3250 area. If it breaks out of this, there could be another quick 200 point upmove. But somehow I dont think we will break out above 3250 also very easily. 

Now, even though I said what I have said above, we still can have more rallies and I am open to that possibility. But let it be. We can afford miss out on the last 10% of the rally as long we get out safely...Retest of the lows is quite possible from here...There are some other important things here but I will talk more about that in next post. 

So, I am going to sell my cash longs today on any rally pops and maybe build some small shorts. Its not a good day to do this because there might not be a big rally today but I will see what rallies I can get so I can sell into it...

Charts to follow later.

Best.

Bingo!

Well I got the selloff I was looking for...Should continue for ATLEAST some part today too. I hope you also noted that Reliance cratered and took the market along with it...Dont I deserve a star? LOL!!

Give SS one too...That was an amazing chart and call idea from him - check timamo.blogspot.com

Well anyways joke apart, I am not sure now if this is a sharp corrective selloff with more recovery highs to follow or if it is part of an initiation move that should go on to test the market lows at 2250 and probably lower at 2000 odd. Any thoughts? I am not sure.

I will most probably cover some of my shorts today...Hedge puts against cash longs will remain.

Comments, ideas, thoughts etc welcome. The forum I used to post for ideas VFM has become a noisy and useless place due to some new elements posting and spamming there now. Comments can be posted here also...Will be welcome..And hopefully some kind of healthy debate can emerge.

Best.

And the Beat goes on!

Well today was quite bullish...More than my expectations...Looks to me like some short covering and some panic buying by those who missed the bottom. Well, I am still seeing a decent pullback over next few days.

Some things I saw today and yesterday....Reliance was weak...Visit SS's site - timamo - for more on this...While Nifty continued to rally...If we take this as a sign of things to come, Nifty can get weaker over the next few days after the late to the party retail crowd gets bullish. One other thing I noted today is that all the so called financial advisors on TV have turned bullish. Where the hell were they when we were at 2250?

Well pullback is coming for sure...From where I do not know..But lets watch 3160 and 3250 areas closely for more clues. It might not be a big selloff and I think this one should be bought. I started some small shorts yesterday...Its underwater...And I am hedged. Will look to add some more today. I am not looking for a big selloff and I will also look to buy the dips ofcourse after seeing the character of the same.

Best.

Rapidly Approaching Strong Confluence of Resistance

From the title of this post, you might have guessed, I am looking for some weakness going forward..Some kind of pullback only because we have run up too much too fast and we have also kind of reverted to the mean after all the recent market mayhem. Some pullback is possible..And will also be good for the market.

After this pullback, can we rally again? Definitely. We need to see the nature of the pullback first ofcourse. I believe the market will build an important low and base in the market over the next few months. Dont be surprised if we do not go anywhere in next few months. We can go down some, then go up some and then one final low around 2100-2000 area which should give up a multimonth rally...I am still long but I have some hedges in place and will also look at building some very short term shorts in Futures today. Longs are in cash stocks.

Some charts for your study below.

Comments welcome and urged...Confusing times. Trade Safe.

Best.

Thoughts for the Weekend

Well guys first I must say thanks to all who came forward to offer me support as I was having second thoughts about continuing with the blog...I have added more on this in the comments in the post below this. Reading all the comments in the post and on the shoutbox, I cannot bring myself to close the blog...So I will not. I will however outline some concerns I have and why I thought about closing the blog...

THE WHY?

- Trading is tough...Mentally exhausting...Emotionally draining....Reasearch and Analysis also takes a lot of time....In addition to that blogging takes even more out of you...Putting your own ideas out in public for everyone to see them and act on them...And probably even go wrong more than often puts a lot of pressure on you in case the readers of this blog did not know...

- Ideas are out here. Trades are not. Does anyone know how I trade? Do I go long without any cover? Do I hedge? Where do I hedge? What do I use to hedge? If its puts, what is the ratio to longs that should be maintained, whats the strike so that the portfolio is delta neutral? Am I making sense? What I am trying to say is I am NOT a financial advisor...This blog presents ideas..Unless someone understands the risk vs. reward, do not enter a trade. I get sad seeing suckers everywhere looking for 'calls'. I have said this before and will say it again - Do your due diligence...I read 100s of blogs and ideas from other...Why do I do it? To get ideas..Not trades..I will collate this information and try to see how I can use it in my analysis. Sometimes I find useful stuff...Sometimes not...But in the end my own ideas and chart reads will come through...So my sincere advice to all...Use this blog for ideas NOT for calls or trades...I dont want that on my concience. And also understand basic ideas of risk and money management. This is what will make you successful in the long run.

- Few days back a sucker commented in one of the posts below that I am consistently wrong and that Nifty is going to 1800...Remember he posted when it was at 2250...I knew we had a bottom in place there...That comment is still there for those interested to check it out...It was an anonymous comment but I wonder if that loser is still short 700 nifty points above. While I was not much bothered about his comment because I knew he was wrong about short term..Medium term still can go lower but then its all about playing odds...Right now its buy the dips vs. sell the rallies...And so keep buying the dips.

We also had another sucker on VFM saying that India and China is going to war he had RAW intelligence...And so on...Another sure indication of the bottom... :) Read that in case you missed it...It was one of the most hilarious posts on VFM. When nifty goes back down to test the lows, I am sure he will post again...Buy blindly then...lol.

Coming to markets...Charts and more detailed analysis will follow later but in short what I think is the current configuration is still buy the dips but something is still nagging in the back on my mind that we need 1 more low....Till then we might just chop chop. This low can be a higher low also but we need to see that when we get there...I cannot count the waves properly..It looks like one more 5th wave low is needed and we might remain in a complex 4th wave for some time. At the moment I am confused at how long this uptrend will last and if we will even get much of a selloff later. I will analyse some more in the next post.

Cheers.

Lee

Important Update and Analysis

I just realized we've completed a very powerful chart formation here, i think its called the "funny blue lizard guy loses his lunch" pattern. I just forget how you're supposed to play this one.

Sorry guys...In case you did not realize till now...this was a weekend FUN post..lol...hope I gave you some laughs...

On a more serious note...I am seriously considering shutting down this blog...Why? You might ask..Well several reasons...Dont want to elucidate them here...But I will consider any comments any one has before making a decision.

Best.

Market Thoughts and Ideas

Well folks, the decline/crash run much more in price levels than what I had been expecting. I will be honest - 2600 in Nifty was the worst possible level I was looking for...Market is a great humbler is it not? Broke 2600 with ease and went down to test 2250 area. Could be testing the multiyear flag breakout here - Chart below.

Let me be clear here...I am down on my cash holdings but I will keep adding on dips...I expect I will be much better off a few months from now...I booked a good deal of my puts yesterday...Thank God for Puts...Was able to recover much of my losses from the cash holdings...

My view going forward - Keep buying em big drops in the market..

See below charts also. First the long term chart I posted some time back. I admit we went much more than I thought we would but we are at an important area. Looks like we are testing the multiyear flag breakout area. If we fail this area, we can go to around 1950 on Nifty...Maybe around 6000 area on Sensex...BUT pls note this is the worst case..We need to be brave here and keep buying all the dips...No one can catch the exact bottom...But we can get close as possible.

Now the Nifty weekly chart...Comments on the chart.

Regd EW counts not going to make any statements out there...But sentiment is supportive of a major major bottom forming right here. But I am not going to worry about that. There is huge huge value out there...Dig for em and buy em...Dont be too nervous. A good example of a good stock is INFOSYS...Market down 25% from where I bought but INFY is UP 3% from my buy point...Thats just amazing and also a screaming BUY. Others I like right here are Educomp, KSOIL and NTPC..As always usual disclaimers apply and please do due diligence before following advice here...

Please note I had to say that since I hate to be the cause for ppl losing money if any....But having said that, I am confident on whats stated above. :) BUT expect retests of the bottom and maybe slightly lower going forward....Will be good areas to add aggressively to longs.

I remember at 6000 Nifty, ppl were calling and asking me about shares, demat accounts, IPOs and what not...I told them now is not the time...Now if I ask them to buy, they will look at me as if I am totally nuts...Thats sentiment guys...Be brave and buy now...As my friend Rajan sir says, Fortune does favour the brave! ;)

Comments welcome.

Best.