Hope isn't a strategy
By Colin Twiggs
June 16, 2016 4:30 p.m. AEST (2:30 a.m. EDT)
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Cautious optimism has evaporated after poor recent polls favoring a BREXIT. I hope that sanity prevails but, as the saying goes: "Hope isn't a strategy".
Better to have a Plan A and a Plan B to cope with the two alternatives. But if enough investors decide their money is safer in the bank, then expectations of a fall are likely to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The S&P 500 does not appear unduly alarmed but a sharp fall on 13-week Money Flow warns of selling pressure. Reversal below 2000 would warn of another test of primary support (1820 to 1870).
Dow Jones Industrial Average shows a similar picture. Breach of medium-term support at 17400 to 17500 would warn of another test of primary support at 15500 to 16000.
A CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) spiked to 20, indicating increased market risk. Long-term measures remain unaffected.
Europe
Germany's DAX retreated below medium-term support, warning of another test of primary support. 13-Week Money Flow below zero suggests a primary down-trend.
The Footsie broke support at 6000 warning of a test of 5500. Reversal of Money Flow below zero would suggest a primary down-trend.
* Target calculation: 6400 + ( 6400 - 6000 ) = 6800
Asia
The Shanghai Composite Index continues to range between 2700 and 3100.
Japan's Nikkei 225 Index broke support at 16000 and its lower trend channel, warning of another decline.
* Target calculation: 15000 - ( 18000 - 15000 ) = 12000
India's Sensex remains bullish, with a short retracement below 27000. Bearish divergence on 13-week Money Flow would end if the descending trendline is penetrated.
Australia
The ASX 200 broke medium-term support at 5200, warning of another test of primary support at 4750. Expect support at the former level of 4900 to 5000 but it is questionable whether this will hold. Combination of a seasonal sell-off and BREXIT fears are going to test buyers' commitment.
The Banks Index fell sharply and breach of support at 7200 would offer a target of 6400*.
* Target calculation: 7200 - ( 8000 - 7200 ) = 6400
Health Care is experiencing a strong sell-off, led by CSL. This is a good long-term stock but exposure to the UK/Europe have spooked the market.
It is ironic that just when those countries such as the Soviet Union, which have tried to run everything from the centre, are learning that success depends on dispersing power and decisions away from the centre, there are some in the community who seem to want to move in the opposite direction. We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.
~ Margaret Thatcher, Bruges speech 1988.
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