President Trump says any China trade deal may be best after the 2020 presidential election.
Contrary to popular belief, doing so may be good for Trump’s re-election and also for America. It may be good for investors in the very long term but may hurt them in the short term.
Before you send me hate mail, remember that I gave a buy signal on the night Trump was elected and, shortly thereafter, made a call for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA to reach 30,000 points.
Let’s explore this issue further.
Please click here for an annotated chart of S&P 500 ETF SPY, which represents the benchmark S&P 500 Index SPX. For the sake of transparency, this chart was previously published at a time when stock market futures were running high before the latest drop in the market.
Note the following:
• The chart shows two previous patterns combining price action, internal momentum and volume that are similar to the present pattern in the stock market. In both cases, the market declined.
• For details on interpreting the chart and other relevant macro data, please read “Believe in a Santa Claus rally if you want, but first look at this chart.”
• I have previously written and emphasized that the stock market has been running up not because of better earnings, a better economy or better geopolitics. Investors have been buying stocks simply because the market has been going up.
• Make no mistake that this stock market is controlled by the momo (momentum) crowd. The momo crowd is fickle and can easily start selling if momentum reverses. Herein lies the danger to investors.
• Investors should pay attention that, in spite of excellent sales data for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, smart money flows have temporarily turned negative in Amazon AMZN and Apple AAPL, while the momo crowd continues to buy them aggressively. Money flows have also slowed in popular stocks such as Facebook FB, Alphabet GOOG, GOOGL, Microsoft MSFT and Netflix NFLX.
• Semiconductor stocks have been leading indicators. Smart money flows have temporarily turned negative in Nvidia NVDA, AMD AMD and Micron Technology MU, and neutral in Intel INTC.
• Smart money flows have temporarily turned negative in some of the best-performing stocks such as Walmart WMT, Target TGT and Disney DIS.
• Smart money flows have turned negative in stocks that are favorites of the momo crowd, such as Shopify SHOP, The Trade Desk TTD, Twilio TWLO and Okta OKTA. Smart money flows are neutral in Salesforce CRM, a popular stock that the momo crowd has been aggressively buying….Read more at MarketWatch.
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