OCX, ONEX update

OCX aug 2012

Nothing has happened since a month ago when we last commented on this stock. To repeat, the top could have been either in 2007 or 2012, but not in 2000, see recent comments on the DOW as well. At $40 this stock is near the previous high before the great recession and consequently there is less upside than downside. Definitely a sell.

OCX, Onex Corp.

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More than a year ago we thought this was an outright sell at about $38. Immediate gratification was right around the corner with a 25% drop. Then we got the rise from the ashes thing and this conglomerate of sorts actually managed a new high. Now we have a double top, a 5th wave wedge and a pretty nice price. We would run to the exit.

OCX , Onex Corp.

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Onex Corp is variously described as a financial institution, a hedge fund or simple a collection of unrelated companies that are owned for no other purpose than to be sold at a higher price. As always these companies are dependent on the cost of financing, interest rates, and the valuations put on the assets held. Both have worked in OCX’s favour over the last two or so years.  The stock is close to double topping to the levels before the great debacle, at about $40.

Two possibilities exist. The stock completed a 5 wave bull market, had its correction , and is now in an entirely new bull market. Or, only wave A of a more complex A-B-C was completed at the lows and , from there, we are in the B-wave which is pretty well complete; next is C down.

The first of the two possibilities is , in my opinion , very unlikely. Valuations in 2007 were pretty lofty and now that we are back to those levels it seems unreasonable to expect much more. Interest rates too can hardly go much lower. Ergo the A-B-C scenario wins hands down from which it follows that this stock is a sell.