John Bollinger
John Bollinger
John A. Bollingeris an American author, financial analyst, contributor to the field of technical analysis and the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, John Bollinger, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN 978-0-07-137368-5, has been translated into eleven languages. He has published The ’’Capital Growth Letter’’ which provides technical analysis of the financial markets since 1987...
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Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.
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We're in a long-term sideways type of market, a consolidation market, typified by alternating cyclical bull and bear markets lasting a year or two each,
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With today's dips and testing of the July lows we might find a sustainable low here, but only if the information picture for investors changes, ... I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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We're still in a position where stocks are too widely owned, ... and the people that own them own too much.
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I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks. Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.
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I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks, ... Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.
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People have been punished, punished badly. I don't think they're going to come in.
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Peaks indicated times of intense speculation and troughs indicated times of low interest in the market, when speculation was not high on people's agenda.
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I would have thought that with the negative tenor of the news -- economic and geopolitical -- more damage would be done, ... That suggests to me the market is in a constructive mode.
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The problem remains uncertainty on the part of investors.
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Typically, in the year of an election, 'Sell in May and go away' doesn't hold very well,
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Today's swings reflected uncertainty at the end of a week in which investors were pelted by wildly conflicting news on both earnings and the economy, ... Every good report this week has met with a bad report. Yes, the market is trying to establish a bottom but it's not a done deal yet.
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We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.
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Current market action is unconvincing. Volume is simply far too low for confidence.