Mutual Fund/ETF Letter Chartist Editors: Dan Sullivan & Steve Mais | February 7, 2019
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30 YEARS e e Chartist Mutual Fund/ETF Letter Chartist Editors: Dan Sullivan & Steve Mais | February 7, 2019 ACCESS CODE ACTUAL CASH ACCOUNT CURRENT: 4168 ACCESS CODE THIS IS A REAL MONEY ACCOUNT, IT IS NOT HYPOTHETICAL. IT BUYS AND SELLS IN CONCERT WITH OUR HOTLINE ADVICE. AS OF 2/21/19: 2871 PURCHASE ADJUSTED TOTAL CURRENT MARKET $GAIN % FUND SYMBOL QTY DATE *PRICE COST PRICE VALUE LOSS CHG SPDR DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL DIA 443 6/3/2016 177.98 78,847 251.9 111,592 32,744 41.5% ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 GROWTH IWM 1738 1/10/2019 142.15 247,062 149.71 260,196 13,134 5.3% ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 GROWTH IWO 87 2/6/2012 94.82 8,249 188.07 16,362 8,113 98.4% ISHARES DJ US BASIC MATERIALS IYM 132 1/11/2012 68.12 8,992 87.83 11,594 2,602 28.9% SPDR S&P BANK KBE 376 2/6/2012 22.02 8,281 43.79 16,465 8,184 98.8% SPDR S&P REGIONAL BANKING KRE 339 1/11/2012 26.04 8,828 54.68 18,537 9,709 110.0% SPDR S&P 500 SPY 750 6/3/2016 210.33 157,744 270.14 202,605 44,861 28.4% VANGUARD SMALL CAP VB 107 2/6/2012 77.66 8,310 148.86 15,928 7,618 91.7% SPDR S&P HOMEBUILDERS XHB 488 1/11/2012 18.61 9,080 36.96 18,036 8,956 98.6% SPDR MATERIALS XLB 220 2/6/2012 37.61 8,274 52.75 11,605 3,331 40.3% SECTOR SPDR INDUSTRIAL SELECT XLI 224 2/6/2012 37.16 8,324 72.96 16,343 8,019 96.3% 551,991 699,262 147,271 26.7% MONEY MARKET FUNDS $994,539 Above are all the open positions in The Chartist Long-term Mutual Fund Letter Actual Cash Account. This is NOT hypothetical. On each and every trade actual cash MARKET VALUE $699,262 is deployed. Brokerage commissions are accounted for and copies of our brokerage statements are available upon request. Whenever The Chartist Mutual Fund Letter makes recommendations concerning this account, they are placed on our Hotline at approximately 6:00PM East Coast Time. The Hotline is for the exclusive BEGINNING VALUE 8/29/88 $100,000 use of subscribers to The Chartist Mutual Fund Letter. Absolutley no one has an unfair advantage in the utilization of the Hotline because we do not act in behalf TOTAL VALUE $1,693,802 of ourselves or any other account until the day after our Hotline is activated. This gives everyone ample time to accept or reject the advice placed on the Hotline. TOTAL PROFITS $1,593,802 Copies of the complete Track Record are available upon request. COMPOUNDED GAIN 9.73% (since inception) For the year to date, our Actual Cash Account is showing a profit of $52,744 +3.21%. Since the last buy signal on June 2, 2016, it is showing a profit of $431,636 +34.2%. PULLBACK OVERDUE We remain in a cautious mode. Our advice is to continue to maintain an approximate 40% equity position versus 60% cash or equivalent. A pullback has been way overdue considering the almost straight line run-up that many of the major indices had enjoyed. Since the December 24th lows through February 5th the Dow had gained over 3,600 points or 16% while over the same timeframe the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 had surged 19% and 20% respectively. Advisory bulls, according to Investor’s Intelligence, have been jumping on the bandwagon. Since the beginning of the year’s reading of 29.9% the bullish contingent has increased for five consecutive weeks to 48.6%. That’s still well off of the peak when bulls clocked in at 60.6% on September 25th. That extreme reading came just two days after the S&P 500 recorded its highs of the cycle. As we go to press, stocks are giving way to selling pressure on the news that trade talks with China are not P.O. Box 758, Seal Beach, CA 90740 | 800-942-4278 | www.thechartist.com going all that well. According to NEC Director, Larry Kudlow, “We’ve got a pretty sizeable distance to go.” After dropping almost 20%, from its bull market highs through the recent lows on December 24th, the benchmark S&P 500 had retraced 49% of the lost ground through February 5th. The rally fell just short of its 200 day moving average (DMA). As you can see by the chart of the S&P 500 on page 3, there is still formidable overhead resistance to be overcome. Resistance is in evidence at 2816, 2815, and 2800, which were the intraday peaks reached in October, November, and early December. The first objective would be to take out the December 3rd intraday highs at 2800. This is where all of the indices were turned back in unison the following day with the Dow and S&P 500 dropping over 3%, while the Nasdaq lost over 4%. Question: Many analysts are predicting that the market’s next move will be to test the December lows. Is this what you anticipate? Answer: What we have here is a market that can go either way. The January 9th breadth thrust buy signal suggests that a test of the lows is not in the cards. Because after the previous 14 thrust signals, the S&P 500 proceeded to gain an average of 7.2% over the next three months. There were only two losing three-month periods with minimal loss of -0.4% and -1.1%. On the other hand, we have yet to get an all clear from two of our most reliable proprietary indicators. Until they are in agreement, we will continue to maintain a cautious stance. CENTERFOLD COMMENTARY Tables 1 and 2 are ranked from the last market low on December 24, 2018 to February 5, 2019, 28 market days ago. Preceding this market low was a severe market decline which commenced on September 20, 2018 over a period of 65 market days. The largest loser in February over this period was the Vanguard Energy VDE, which coughed up 29.4%, followed by the Russell 2000 Growth, IWO – 27.8%, the Microcap IWC – 27.3%, the S&P Smallcap 600 Value IJS – 26.5%, Core S&P Smallcap IJR – 26.2%, Russell 2000 IWM -26%, and Nasdaq Biotech IBB – 24.9%. The major averages did somewhat better with the S&P 500 SPY under the -20% bear market label at -19.38%, and the venerable Dow DIA at -17.7%. COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Copyright © The Chartist, Inc. All rights reserved. All materials contained herein are protected by United States copyright law and have been created, authored and prepared by The Chartist, Inc., unless otherwise indicated. Any reproduction, distribution or transmittal of the materials herein is prohibited and The Chartist, Inc. will pursue all available legal remedies against violators. Furthermore, any distribution, reproduction or transmittal of information or materials derived through a subscription to The Chartist services, BY A SUBSCRIBER TO A NON-SUBSCRIBER, is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. The Chartist, Inc. does not claim copyright as to any quoted material included herein and attributed to a third party. Copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices may not be altered or removed. 2 This severe decline led the Chartist on Wednesday, October 24th at 6:00 p.m. East Coast Time, to issue a sell off 50% of the ETF’s purchased on June 3, 2016. The sell was on the opening the next day realizing a gain of 41%. On Friday, December 14th, the Chartist hotline issued another sell to be executed on Monday, December 17, 2018 for another 25%, reducing our holdings to 25%. We should point out the market weakness was not just a U.S. affair, but was a worldwide event with Ireland’s ETF giving up -35%, German Dax -23%, Italy -29%, Canada -22%, Mexico 029%, Hong Kong -26%, China -28% and Russia -21%. The extreme selling into late December sowed the seeds for a huge oversold rally which started the day after Christmas. Over the next 10 market days the Dow and S&P 500 jumped 10% triggering a buy signal by our momentum thrust indicator on Wednesday, January 9th. The Actual Cash Account took a 15% position in IWM the next day raising our equity exposure from 25% to 40%. A buy signal is generated when the 10-day moving average of advancing stocks versus declining stocks exceed 2 to 1 or more. Another Chartist proprietary indicator came very close to issuing a buy signal as well. The volume thrust buy signal is generated when upside volume exceeds downside volume by 10 to 1 and follows up the next day with a 4 to 1 reading. On January 4th upside volume exceeded downside by a huge 24 to 1. In the next session, upside volume fell just short of a buy signal coming in at 3.75 to 1. The top 25 ETF funds in this oversold rally are nearly identical to the top 25 losers in the September-December meltdown. The gold and silver stocks and the miners were the only ETFs that showed a gain in the meltdown period. In the current rally precious metals are also participating to the upside showing gains in both the 6 mon and 3 mon columns. Please Note: We have switched from Fasttrack.net to FTCLOUD. The Ulcer Index UI and Standard Deviation SD for tables 1 and 2 are now calculated from the start of the data base on September 1, 1988 or from inception of the ETF or Mutual Fund.