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A Minor Pause February 10, 2019

Feb. 8, 2019 – This week we saw a minor pause in this steady advance; that is expected and overdue.  Though one may think of this as an Upthrust (of price) I really doubt it due to the lack of volume.  In fact the volume this past week was generally edging lower.  It just looks like any future buyers are just waiting.

This pause around the 7485 level (dashed green line) is a logically place to rest at.  An oscillation of prices between 6930 and 7485 would be rather “normal” if it comes to pass.  Everything else appears fairly positive for the time being.  One chart I found of interest was the amount of funds withdrawn from mutual funds in December (chart below).Once again the casual investor just does not like volatility and their market timing is pretty poor.  That withdrawn money represents “new money” that has potential for driving price up once it decides to come back in.  As the old saying goes “The market will continue to go higher until the last person buys it”, or something like that.  No doubt that we live in volatile times and the computer trading programs seem to amplify any move even more.

A quick look at the short term sector strength table below:

I’m trying to stay in the leaders by avoiding the lower (red) percentile sectors.  Again, this is short term so a fall from the top rank is not necessarily a terrible thing since it can be just a pause and the raw score may indicate a minor move anyway.  Not much else to say.  I remain very near fully invested with many stocks in those strong sectors.

Have a good week.     ………. Tom  ……….

Price chart by MetaStock; pie chart & table by http://www.HighGrowthStock.com. Used with permission.