Has This Selloff Reached A Bottom Yet?

Everyone wants to know if this selloff has reached a low or bottom yet and what to expect over the next 30~60+ days.  Since October, the US stock market has reacted to the US Fed raising rates above 2.0% with dramatic downward price moves.  The latest raise by the US Fed resulted in a very clear price decline in the markets illustrating the fact that investors don't expect the markets to recover based on the current geopolitical and economic climate.

Over 5 years ago, our research team developed a financial modeling system that attempted to model the US Fed Funds Rate optimal levels given certain inputs (US GDP, US Population, US Debt and others).  The effort by our team of researchers was to attempt to identify where and when the US Fed should be adjusting rates and when and where the US Fed would make a mistake.  The basic premise of our modeling system is that as long as Fed keeps rates within our model's optimal output parameters, the US (and presumably global) economy should continue to operate without massive disruption events unless some outside event (think Europe, China or another massive economic collapse) disrupts the ability of the US economy from operating efficiently.  We've included a screen capture of the current FFR modeling results below.

This model operates on the premise that US debt, population and GDP will continue to increase at similar levels to 2004~2012.  We can see that our model predicted that the US Fed should have begun raising rates in 2013~2014 and continued to push rates above 1.25% before the end of 2015.  Then, the US Fed should have raised rates gradually to near 2.0% by 2017~2018 – never breaching the 2.1250% level.  Our model expects the US Fed to decrease rates to near 1.4~1.5% in early 2019 and for rates to rotate between 1.25%~2.0% between now and 2020.  Eventually, after 2021, our model expects the US Fed to begin to normalize rates near 1.5~1.75% for an extended period of time.

Additionally, our Custom Market Cap index has reached a very low level (historically extremely low) and is likely to result in a major price bottom formation or, at least, a pause in this downward price move that may result in some renewed forward optimism going forward.  Although we would like to be able to announce that the market has reached a major price bottom and that we are “calling a bottom” in this move, we simply can't call this as a bottom yet.  We have to wait to see if and when the markets confirm a price bottom before we can't attempt any real call in the markets.  You can see from our Custom Market Cap Index that the index level is very near historical low levels (below $4.00 – near the RED line) and that these levels have resulted in major price low points historically.  We are expecting price to pause over the next week or so near these $3.50 levels and attempt to setup a rotational support level before attempting another price swing.  As of right now, we believe there is fairly strong opportunity for a price bottom to setup, yet these are still very early indicators of a major price bottom and we can't actually call a bottom yet.  If our Custom Market Cap Index does as it has in the past, then we are very close to a bottom formation in the US markets and traders would be wise to wait for technical confirmation of this bottom before jumping into any aggressive long trades.

Lastly, our Custom Global Market Cap Index has also reached levels near the lower deviation channel range over the past 7+ years, which adds further confidence that a potential price bottom may be near to forming in the US markets.  As we can see from the chart below, the recent selloff has pushed our Global Market Cap Index to very low levels – from near $198 to near $144; a -27.55% total price decline.  Nearing these low levels, we should expect the global markets to attempt to find some support and to potentially hammer out a bottom, yet we are still cautious that this downward price move could breach existing support levels and push even further in to bear market territory.

There are early warning signs that the market may be attempting to form a market bottom and our research team is scanning every available tool we have at out disposal to attempt to assist all of our members and followers.  We alerted you to this move back on September 17, 2018 with our ADL predictive modeling system call for a -5~8%+ market correction.  Little did we know that the US Fed would blow the bottom out of the markets with their push to raise rates above the 2.0% level.

As the US Fed has already breached our Fed Modeling Systems suggested rate levels, the global markets will be attempting to identify key price support in relation to this new pricing pressure and the expectations that debt/credit issues will become more pronounced as rates push higher.  In other words, the global markets are attempting to price in the renewed uncertainty that relates to the US Fed pushing rates beyond optimal levels.  We expect the markets are close to finding true support near the levels we've shown on our Custom Index charts, yet we still need confirmation before we can call it a bottom.

We will continue to update you with our research and analysis as this move plays out and we hope you were able to follow our analysis regarding the Metals, Oil, Energy and other sectors that called many of these massive price swings.  We pride ourselves on our analysis and ability to use our proprietary tools to find and execute successful trades for our members.  Our ADL predictive price modeling system is still suggesting an upward price move is in the works for the US markets and we are waiting for our “ultimate low price” level to be reached before we expect an upside leg to drive prices higher again.  Based on our current research, we may be nearing the point where the markets attempt to hammer out a price bottom – yet time will tell if this is the correct analysis.

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