Up, Up and Away.....Or...

There are times when this tide stuff just seems to be another smoke screen in the ever daunting task of trying to determine market direction. And then there times like now when it is spot on and like taking candy from the proverbial baby. Guess that's what makes it all interesting and intriguing.

So, we apparently head on up into the 11/11/09 date as a high. Interestingly, the same date coined as WWW by Don Wolanchuk and infamously known for a period of weakness prior to options expirations. So...........will WWW give us a low and the following trend an incorrect tide trend that morphs from a bearish one to a bullish one? Will we instead tag or penetrate the upper trendline as we approach turkey day here in the states? I'm leaning that way, but with some caution. From a personal standpoint, I am probably 75% long throughout all personal accounts and 401k, waiting for a signal to either go further long or take some off the table. I think the next week to two weeks will tell a lot about where we head for the next several months. If I were a betting man, I would say we trend up from here into mid February 2010.

Mid Week.......Yeah, Update

Sometimes words are not needed.

Path Forward

Before off hours futures starts trading this evening, I thought it'd be good to get some thoughts and possibilites down on paper so to speak. Regardless of where I think the markets are eventually heading, I think we're at a critical juncture right here where a couple of different scenarios could play out.

First, given that the market is down right here, the possibility exists that short term they will continue on down into the tide turn date and possibly into the bradley date with some accelerated selling. Call it what you want, a strong correction or a mini-crash, it's a possibility that should not be ignored. It's been a great run and opens up the chance to rape the bulls relatively easily at this point. So, if we get this, that opens the opportunity for a good buying spot into the second or third week in November.

If, on the other hand, we get mild selling or even sideways action into the wednesday tide turn date or the bradley date, followed by a correct tide uptrend, then one might expect at the end of that trend, the following down trend could be one to be very wary of if you are a bull.

To summarize, I think caution is called for in this period to see how the markets want to handle a likely and needed correction.