Timing Market Turns

This is the August 8, 2007 market comments submitted to TimerTrac.com 's twice a week

Timing Market Turns

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We track our trades at TimerTrac.com for the Dow 30, S&P 500, NASDAQ 100 and the Russell 2000 indexes. We trade them as if we were trading an unleveraged stock. We use a Swing trade (3-5 days) and an Investor Core (for hedging longer term investment positions).

We believe that the decline from mid-July has completed the first downward leg of a Bull market correction. Between now and expiration Friday (August 17th), the indexes will likely track laterally as resistance at the 50% retracement (potentially 62%) levels.

We have been writing about the near exact tracking of the indexes from the July high as relates to its matching decline in 1998. It is nearly to the day so far.

The similarities between 1998 and 2007 crises have been getting alot of press. It might first scare some people if they saw the charts from 1998, but we believe most people want to know where the market's going.

Look at these two charts:
NDX - Summer of 1998
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b295/wbbusin/ndxsummer98.jpg

SPX - Summer of 1998
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b295/wbbusin/spxsummer98.jpg

Interest Rates
We also believe that interest rates are about to crash as well. The 10-year T Note rate could reach below 3.94%, and potentially touch 3.80%.

Currencies
The major currency pairs are setting the stage for a massive repatriation of the Japanese Yen. By mid-September, there "carry trade" will be homeward bound, in our view. Look at the USD/JPY and especially EUR/JPY in 1998, and then what happened since then to both the Nikkei, the Yen and their economy.

We just alerted our readers today that the Shanghai SSE Composite should top at the latest by this Friday. We know the difference between top and a high. Potentially, parabolic markets are unstoppable until they do stop.

What if we are wrong and it's a Bear market? We cover that in the Market Summary. We also have an interesting comparison of FOMC 1998 and FOMC 2007. Hint: We like Bernanke better.

If the FOMC lowers at the September meeting, we believe that it might create the worst of conditions by rewarding rotten lending practices and policies. If they wait till just after the first week in October (before the October meeting), it will be viewed in the long term future as the right thing to do.

We are bearish on equities, bullish on the best of bonds till October, neutral on the major currency pairs (that's what we trade), or until something changes our view.

God bless all of you.

W. B. Busin
W. B. Busin Group Publishing

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