October Stocks Bear Market and Crash Killer

By: Nadeem_Walayat

We are now well into October, which is THE month for stock market doom and gloom to prevail. This is the month when the perma stock market crash proponents are at their most vocal when they dust down and repost ancient charts of previous crashes such as 1929 and 1987 and more recently 2008, to once more proclaim that history is about to repeat and a stock market crash is imminent. Though this time its even worse than usual because even those who may have been 'mostly' bullish threw in the towel several weeks ago to at least conclude that stocks bear market had begun.

A quick google of 'bear market' reveals a series of articles by for instance MoneyMorning.com of increasing bear market certainty, in fact you can't get much more certain than 99.7% that stocks were now in a bear market -

Is This a Bear Market?

It actually indicates there's a 99.7% chance we're already in a bear market.

Or more recently - Are Global Stock Markets Pointing to a Bear Market?

And I could continue, on and on and one with a long list of the former mostly bullish 'analysts' who apparently now think we are in a bear market.

So again it's important to note that recent bearishness goes well beyond the usual suspects, counting even the usually bullish amongst their number.

So exactly how has this new stocks bear market been proceeding during the past month or so? Well the Dow's latest close of 17,084 is at its highest for the past 6 weeks!

Now forgive my ignorance but aren't stocks supposed to be falling during a bear market? Rising stocks, let alone failure of the always imminent stock market crash is not bearish price action that supports such widespread expectations.

Stock Market Trend Forecast Into End Dec 2015

My Mid September update of the state of the 6 year long stocks bull market series concluded in a detailed trend forecast for the Dow that after a brief rally into Mid September would continue its correction into October so as to set the scene for the Dow to rally by about 20% to over 18000 before the end of this year.

13 Sep 2015 - Stock Market Dow Trend Forecast for September to December 2015

My final conclusion is for continuing weakness that will result in a volatile trading range with a probable re-test of the recent low of 15,370 by Mid October that will set the scene for a strong rally into the end of the year that could see the Dow trade above 18,000 before targeting a gain for a seventh year in a row at above 17,823 as illustrated below:

Whilst the highly vocal bears may point to bearish chart patterns such as the 'head and shoulders, knees and toes' pattern. Instead it looks like the stock market is determined to severely punish the bearish consensus by resuming its bull market a few weeks earlier than even I had envisaged. Still it would have been better for the stock market to have suckered in a greater number of bears before pulling the noose tight around their necks, or perhaps given the earlier illustration the stock market HAD succeeded in doing so, it's just that in my calm corner of the market universe I had not fully appreciate just how bearish the majority had become.

So why am calm and relaxed whilst most others are running around like demented rabbits?

Look it's simple, very simple, stocks are NOT in a bubble, until stocks reach the bubble stage then they are unlikely to resolve into a bear market, having traded stocks for over 30 years, I KNOW what a real bubble looks like! In fact the bubble top may turn out to be another 4 or 5 years away! Imagine that a bull market that continues for another 4 or 5 years! IMAGINE IT, now imagine the perma bear crap that is going to flow as stocks relentlessly climb higher, do you really want to miss another 5 year bull run? Yes there could be a shock event that could bring the bull market to a juddering halt, such as The United States electing another Idiot for President who perhaps starts another unwinnable war and leaves another crucible for global insatiability behind such as Iraq. So, no its not a done deal but probability continues to favour a continuation of the bull market trend.

The bottom line is that successful investing demands consistency. For instance I have been bullish on stocks since the birth of the bull market in March 2009 (15 Mar 2009 - Stealth Bull Market Follows Stocks Bear Market Bottom at Dow 6,470 ) and since which time my strategy has remained very, very simple and consistent as illustrated by hundreds of articles and several stocks ebook's (FREE DOWNLOAD) which is that the "greater the deviation from the bull market peak then the greater the buying opportunity presented". In which case given the recent deviation from its high of 15%, you have just had one of those great buying opportunity moments that it clearly looks like most will have MISSED due to what? Falling prey to a financial media sales industry that in reality amounts to nothing more than 'reeds blowing in the wind'.

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By Nadeem Walayat

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