World equities VT - BullishHere's a bullish count to brighten up any bulls day that lives somewhere cold and dark this January. Of course, it would really brighten up my year if it in fact comes to fruition but we will have to wait and see. (Most of the fib extensions/retracements are in the arithmetic scale but I have included a couple of (hopefully) logarithmic fib measurements too using the fib channel tool One is the retracement of the recently completed (??) wave iv and the other is a 1.618 extension of minor wave 1)
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Bearish On The Long Run - VTI'm sometimes more interested in the Total World Index than the more focused ones (VTI, VEA, VWO, etc.).
The economy is highly correlated and massive moves in one area bear down the rest of the world or support it up.
The past year has been a mitigated market mostly held down by the interest rate and trade war and there's no sign of it truly easing up.
Over time, this index, and the rest of the world economy will have to pay for the too accommodative Fed policy and overvalued stocks.
MAJOR LOW IN WORLD INDEX WAVE A AND WAVE C AT .382 SNORTTHE WORLD STOCK INDEX HAS JUST ENDED ITS DECLINE FROM JAN PEAK WAVES A & C ARE NOW EQUAL AND THE PULLBACK IS A NEAR PERFECT .382 FROM 2016 AND AS FOR THE TIMING THE CORRECTION IS NOW EQUAL IN TIME AS THE MAY 2015 PEAK TO THE LOW OF JAN 2016 LOOK FOR A NEW BULL PHASE NOW
A Scenario For A Cyclical CorrectionI'm not one for experimental technical analysis, but, I found the 1-year moving average curve interesting and how it indicates a certain slowdown and potential reversal to the mean (still with an overall uptrend).
Will be interesting and an opportunity to buy after a 15-25 % correction.
A Pullback Could Be A Buying Opportunity On VTThe chart shows a potential gain for a buy on a pullback or short correction; ultimately, I see this more as a super long-term investment. You can't get much more diversified than this (exception made of multi-asset funds such as AOM, YDIV, MDIV, INKM, etc). This is just something to hold and keep. At this point in time, the market really could go both ways, either with optimists on the US economy pushing things up, or, geopolitical risks triggering a serious correction.
Total World Stocks - BullishAs with any longer term predictions the chances of it following the plan are pretty remote but this take sees world equities continuing there excellent run for some time yet. It looks to me that my 5th wave is extending but with most of the world's equity markets undergoing a correction of sorts at the moment this could be an end of a wave iii.
The Global Stock Market's Monthly RSI is Hitting a TopThe Global Stock Market's Monthly RSI is Hitting a Top in an Overbought Position. This is dominated by US equities.
There is no etf to short this index in my 401k. I am currently short one Dow future. Trying to short the US market has not been very rewarding so far. I will start shorting it more going forward. I watched my 401k fall a lot in 2008 and watched it recover over 9 years. I am currently all in cash in my 401k. I am long 2 corn futures and 2 soybean meal futures in my margin account.