It might be my film-making background, but I always believe that I can detect a personality in the financial markets. Perhaps better described as a “character” than a personality, the traits that I identify are remarkably consistent in each market. This week we witnessed the cruel cunningness of a remarkably […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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28 June 2012 – Today we launched Version3 of Sentient Trader. Its exciting new features include: (1) Click To Trade, which revolutionizes decision making and trading with Sentient Trader. Using Click To Trade, you simply Roll and Click your mouse to display trades with their Hurst Reasoning, Entry or Exit level, […]
As the Nasdaq reached its 80-day FLD on Tuesday, and median price settled squarely onto the FLD line my trader instinct was to tighten stops, whereas my analyst instinct was to say “finally the moment of truth!” and I was reminded of the great difference between being a trader and […]
Last week I pondered the possibility that the 40-week cycle turn that we have been expecting in many markets was formed in price on 4 June 2012. Of the markets that we follow in this blog, Crude Oil and the Nasdaq were the two in which it seemed least likely […]
We have been waiting patiently (or in some cases perhaps not-so-patiently) for the formation of 40-week magnitude troughs and peaks in various markets. It is possible that those troughs and peaks formed this week, but before crying “TROUGH!” (or “PEAK!”)we need to take a careful look at the evidence. S&P 500 […]
Last week I wrote that US markets would “try to cross above the 40-day cycle FLD, but given the bearish situation might not make it“. On Tuesday markets rallied close to that 40-day FLD, but then on Wednesday, a mere 2 points (vertically, 1 bar horizontally) from the 40-day FLD […]
Markets around the world are approaching turning points of 20-week (Euro/US Dollar) or 40-week magnitude. The actual turns are unlikely to be perfectly synchronized because perfect synchronization between markets is a satisfying event that usually only occurs on cyclic turns of at least 18-month magnitude, as we saw last year […]
My three-year old son has been struggling this week with the fact that he would like to specify the “surprise” that he gets in his morning snack. I have tried explaining that if one knows what is coming, it can hardly be described as a surprise, but he remains unconvinced, […]
For their April 2012 ‘Cycles Edition’, Stocks & Commodities magazine commissioned an independent review of our Hurst Signals online service. The reviewer, Donald W Prendergast, used the service in the way we recommend. He chose to follow the 40 Day Cycle of the S&P 500 e-mini future contract. After a week of waiting for the […]
I mentioned last week that when the markets exhibit clear cyclic behaviour one should expect surprises, usually in terms of the amplitude and speed of a price move. This week we were surprised by the amplitude of a move, and even more surprised by the fact that it was an […]