IBM

IBM mar 2011    ibm mar 2011 2

Back in the early 1990-ties , as a new stock-broker , I got a shareholders list that had a few hundred names on it. I called every single one , within a certain distance , to warn them that their stock would drop rather precipitously. Not a single one would even listen! Today, if anyone remembers, they no doubt praise themselves for being long-term investors. Then the stock did drop by about 60%.

Today, once again, we are at a similar point. I think the stock is a sell and could easily drop $100 or thereabouts. This has nothing to do with this either being a good or bad stock, it is simple the market.   The climb from about $70 to $170 is steeper even than the climb during the tech bubble years. The count itself is a little ambiguous. If you torture things a little you could squeeze in a wave 4 triangle, and start a wedge formation from there. This would allow the stock to climb higher ( to about $190) but not before first dropping to about $130., leaving you ample time to react. A better count would be along the General Electric lines, a large A-B-C wave 4 spread over about 10 years (with a failure as no new low is made) , followed by the recent up-leg as wave 5, or if you shift the tops to the left as wave B. The short term chart certainly supports the idea that this is a wave B.

In short this stock is a sell. I should mention that I never thought this one would trade above $130 so I have been wrong on this one a few times. Also the P/E at around 13 is not particular high!

RY again

RY mar 24 2011

This market is wearing me down quite a bit.We go down 1000 points and come right back up 1000 points, each time setting new records. It makes one doubt the accuracy of certain calls and that is why I am repeating my expectation that RY will trade back down, now to at least below the $49 level, unless the stock trades above $63.

The stock has a near perfect EW pattern, 5 down , 3 up and despite the fact that this has taken a lot longer, and that the stock has gone a lot higher, NOTHING changes un till the outlook is negated by trading above $63.

CM, Can. Imperial Bank of Commerce.

CMmar22 2011

A month (Feb 18) ago I presented this same chart. Today we are 47 cents higher than then but have been lower most of the time in between. The stock kept hugging the upper trend-line of this wedge formation. RSI and MACD have diverged for the longest time already but something is going to come out of the woodwork that will bring this stock back to the levels of August 2010, just 5 months after the financial meltdown. It should all happen soon and rapidly once it does.

So we are going up, again? CCO

The Nasdaq is one tick away from overlapping, the Russell 2000 has already overlapped so the whole idea of a first 5 wave down is in trouble, at least in America. Most of the Eurapeans still have a way to go. Also S gave back one dollar, exactly what it had gained over the last week. Cameco is up $2.5 which is close to 10%, this together with the whole Uranium space , like DML, UUU, UEX etc all up similar amounts.Here is CC0;

ccomarch22

I cannot get clear tick charts  but even using this blunt chart it still seems to me that a 5th wave is missing even after today’s big gain.  There is no news of course from Japan, the focus has shifted to Libya, but in the meantime what is leaking out is not particularly encouraging.