Stocks Bear Market Accumulation Strategy

Stock-Markets / Investing 2022 Sep 20, 2022 - 10:27 PM GMT

My strategy for this bear market from the outset has been be to accumulate during a volatile trend to a probable Dow target of 29k to 30k where I settled on my best guess of 29.6k, by late August. In the course of which I was expecting volatile swings of between 15% to 30% in either direction that would allow me to BUY big during the DIPs and then SELL a portion of what I bought during the bear market rallies, as well as selective shorting. Unfortunately this bear market has tuned out to be LESS volatile than what I was expecting i.e. swings higher of 9% are just not enough for any significant trimming of positions as the table illustrates.

Then on top of that has been sterling's 15% nose dive from 1.38 to under 1.20! Which means I have not been able to capitalise on the more recent dips to the extent that I would have done if sterling had say not fallen below 1.30 which is a 10% difference in cost terms. On the flip side this makes SELLING the bear rallies easier. So even though I saw this bear coming it has not turned out to be an EASY bear market to profit form due to weak upswings.

However, the mot recent price action measured off the low of 3860 amounts to a substantial 16% move higher, finally enough to trim and to short for the next swing lower, however given that the swing has abnormally strong it also thereof raises the possibility that the stock market could have already bottomed and what we are seeing is the birth of a new bull market. Which means whilst I am continuing with my strategy of trimming and shorting the rallies, the extent to which I am entering shorts during this rally is lighter given that there is a risk I will have to take a loss on the shorts if the market HAS bottomed EARLIER than expected and fails reverse lower..

Therefore as things stand, regardless of what transpires over the coming week, my expectations remain for the bear market to continue to NEW bear market lows, it's just that stocks such as Amazon and Microsoft rallying on BAD EARNINGS, forces me to at least entertain the possibility of an early bottom, i.e. possible but not probable and even if the market has bottomed it's not going to rocket higher to new al time highs THIS YEAR! In fact July's price action acts to further confirm my trend pattern for 2022 as the in the chart above.

The bottom line is that July's strong price action is sending me a signal that the bear market does NOT have much downside left top ut, where any new low will likely only be marginally lower than the bear market low to date, with the risk that the market has already bottomed courtesy of TEN PERCENT CPLIE INFLATION! 20% REAL INFLATION!

And where the stock market is concerned given that August is about to begin does not give this rally much more upside as it tries to fight it's way higher in the TREACLE zone. It really is a tough ask to see this rally break higher and even if it did I would view it as FALSE break higher to run the stops that this bear market has delivered several times before! FALSE BREAKOUTS and BREAKDOWNS to RUN THE STOPS! So yes we could see the S&P climb to above 4180, to trade to say 4200, 4210 to give us that false signal. Furthermore stock market July strength right into the end of the month suggests that the next swing down could terminate during September rather than late August, i.e. to have enough time to complete the move.

For clarification the pink lines are not trendlines but swing projections for where the S&P could trade to.

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Nadeem Walayat has over 30 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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