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They were wrong. The best part of waking up isn’t the prospect of sipping on some dreadful freeze-dried coffee. It is, instead, holding my breath, bracing myself, turning on my screen, and see it covered in sangre de cristo. Now if you’ll excuse me, I had probably find some pants to put on for the trading day. Achtung, baby.
A couple of Thursdays ago, we were all wringing our hands (or at least I was) about the powerful bureaucrat and lifetime government employee Haruhiko Kuroda and what his next move would be. He dropped a big bomb – negative interest rates – and created precisely the kind of market reaction he wanted………….for less than a single day. Since then, his world has once again fallen to pieces, since the cold fact of the matter is that Japan is doomed to be an old age colony, hopelessly mired in debt, with its economic glory of the 1980s an increasingly distant memory.
Even though these moronic central bankers are becoming increasingly impotent (a trait normally assigned merely to those who dared gaze at the hideous visage of Janet Yellen), we’re all still afraid of them and what they might do, simply because the horrid memories of 2009-2014 are too painful to forget. The latest chatter is about the Chinese government, and whatever falsified data they intend to trot out Sunday night. I personally wish they’d all choke on their chopsticks, but the universe seldom heeds the desires of Tim Knight.
Over the past ten months, in steps almost too small to be noticed by the mass media, Apple has shed over two hundred billion dollars in value. That’s nearly one quarter of a trillion dollars in wealth which would have fed shareholder dreams of new houses, new boats, new jewelry, and mink coats, but……….it’s gone.
The thing is, I think the slide is far, far from over. I wrote a piece earlier this year (which got picked up by some of the mainstream press) predicting that Apple would fall to the mid-70s. We’re already heading into the low 90s, so my goofy prediction is seeming a little less insane.
In January 2015 I posted an Insta-blog on Seeking Alpha calling for a low in the 280 region prior to the January earnings report. In that post I called for a resumption of the long term rally looking for a target well over 450. AMZN did not disappoint, and in our regular StockWaves updates we tracked the progress and continued to revise the extension targets and raise the support levels. While the potential for further extension in this Primary degree 3rd wave is still possible, the failure to hold higher levels of support as well as the failure to utilize the most recent ER for a potential extension setup makes it more likely that the early stages of the Primary Wave 4 are underway.
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