If there is a triangle. this should pretty well do it. It is still a big if but if it is there it is there. This is the time when either Yellen or Draghi usually do their deus ex machina, maybe they will do it together.
Author: Hamilton
GPRO, GoPro those little cameras.
Gopro makes those little cameras that you wear when you engage in extreme sports. They are really neat and fun for things like sky diving, mountain climbing and other things that require your hands to be free. The camera remote controlled or has a fixed setting. It is essentially a video recorder.
The IPO was in June at $24, way too low but for that reason, oddly, a roaring success. If somehow you are well connected and got an allocation, you quickly quadrupled your money as the stock did its Mount Everest climb to near $100, with or without camera.
Due to the lack of a full cycle it is only possible to guess what the wave count should be. The last five dollar drop is blamed on Apple obtaining a patent that would allow it to enter this line of business. That does not explain the previous drop of about 45% and is probable another case of “after this, therefore because of this” logic. In any event the stock comes out of lock-up on Feb. 17 at which time all the lucky insiders get to take profit if they want to. That is still a month away. In the mean time things will get a lot clearer if overlap occurs. Any break of the present lows would negate the possibility that the recent 50% drop is a 4th wave and would allow for lower values. However if the low holds it is still possible that a 5th wave would take the stock to a new high. It would need to rise above $65 to give any confidence to this 5th wave scenario. For the moment the RSI and MACD seem to suggest at least some bounce.
Alternatively the move to $100 could be all of wave 1, the drop to $49 wave 2 and we are ready for take-off. At $200 to $500 maybe not.
NLN, Neulion Inc. (on Toronto)
This stock has part of its origins in Jump TV, a stock that I am also not familiar with. In any event it hit a low of roughly 15 cents back in July of 2013. It is consequently reasonable to assume that some first wave started at that point. There are 3 simple things that must be taken into consideration when trying to get to an EW count. 1. Structure, you need 5 waves up or 3 down. Here it must ,of necessity, be up. Typically the wave 3 sits somewhere in the middle all though that is not always true. Simple, for starters, assume that it is. Here we show in green where the middle appears to be and than simple go equal distances from there. 2. Channel. Nearly always the whole thing channels well. Here shown in purple. 3. Extensions. This is often ignored but nearly always there is an extended wave, that is it is abnormally long. Often it is the 3 of 3 but in commodities it is frequently the 5th. This company is a mini Netflix and, arguable, not commodity related. Nevertheless it looks like wave 5, more precisely 5 of 5 is going to extend.
If you do all that then a slightly higher high is still a possibility. A rough guesstimate would be about $1.53. If it is worth sticking around is a different matter.
Alchemy, and we thought it impossible! Copper, Gold.
Here are two charts from InfoMine, same scale, same timeframe , more or less, and so on. On the left Copper and on the right Gold.
With the exception of the spike down in 2008 for copper the two charts are very similar. Both have their lows in or around 2001+ and both peak in 2011+. Moreover both manage an amplitude of about 9-times. The most recent, multi-year correction takes back roughly 3 out of 8 lines which equates to about 38%, normally a Fibonacci minimum. We can only speculate why the exception of 2008 occurred, perhaps copper as a base metal is more sensitive to economic growth which seemed to disappear during the initial phases of the great recession. Or perhaps gold was more sensitive to the expansionary monetary experiments of the Worlds central banks. Whatever the cause it is clear that the difference was short lived and that for the most part the two metals behave like twins, have an extremely high correlation (at least for this time period!), and are essentially interchangeable as if alchemy actually works. Those that delight in conspiracy theories might want to delve deeper into what the Chinese have been up to.
For our purposes all this is important only in that if you can predict one, you can predict the other. Here are then – 29, Oct., 2012 – and now charts;
That was a bulls eye even if it took a year and a half longer. Nevertheless we do not think the count at the time was correct. For the triangle to be a 4th wave it is too big. A 5th wave may have started earlier and taken the form of a wedge. This would then complete wave A or 1 down at toady’s low. Perhaps a better characterization would be a double zig-zag with the triangle in the middle as the X-wave. We are not entirely sure as other variations are possible but the main thing is that we got to $2.70 per pound, the initial target. At the very least we would expect a pause of some duration at this stage, more or less. So if that is the case with copper, why not with gold?