{"id":14863,"date":"2010-11-03T14:33:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=14863"},"modified":"2010-11-03T14:33:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:33:38","slug":"the-gold-and-sp-500-bull-markets-continue-to-leave-investors-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/03\/the-gold-and-sp-500-bull-markets-continue-to-leave-investors-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gold and SP 500 Bull markets continue to leave investors behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>David A. Banister- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetechnicaltraders.com\/237-8-3-21.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.MarketTrendForecast.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my recent forecast updates for my subscribers and also in my free  articles online, I have expounded on the virtues of Elliott Wave Theory,  which I use as my linchpin for my short and long term views. To wit,  back in August 2009 I made it clear that we would enter a five year  period of a massive move up in both Gold and Gold Stocks.  Gold was $900  an ounce at the time, and is now at $1360 an ounce.  I made that  forecast based on human behavioral patterns that go back centuries.   Crowds love to all act like a swarm of bees flying together.  Everyone  hates stocks or sectors when they are down, and the crowd loves them  when they are up or going up.  Investors like to chase stocks and  sectors when they are up high and running near parabolic, but they don\u2019t  like to buy large dips or consolidations ahead of moves. Once you learn  that Elliott Wave patterns and a few other indicators sprinkled in can  give you a heads up on when the crowd is about to jump in, you can  basically front run the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>I digress and go back to the Gold Bull Market. The reason I knew in  August of 2009 that from $900 Gold we would enter a five year \u201cmassive\u201d  Bull Run is due to crowd patterns. To refresh, I see Gold as being in a  Fibonacci 13 year cycle up that started in 2001.  The first five years  not too many investors participate in the Bull Run because the prior 20  did nothing. By the time everyone realized in 2006 that Gold mutual  funds had compounded 30% a year for five years, it was too late to jump  in.  Of course, that is when everyone started buying Gold mutual funds  and stocks.  The problem is the first move was over, and we had 3  Fibonacci years of chop with no net gains. The crowd gives up around the  summer of 2009, and that is when I forecasted a huge five year move to  come.  So far Gold is up over 50% in 13 months and Gold Stocks are up  well north of that.  The junior stocks started expanding in volume and  price months ago, and that should have been yet another wake up call to  investors.<\/p>\n<p>Near term in Gold I\u2019m looking for this current power Elliott wave to  land around $1485-$1492 before a strong correction, and the recent pivot  at $1312 was yet another short term bottom which will be followed by  the last leg up since the $1155 lows this summer.  Investors are now  waking up and buying Gold and Gold stocks, and this is part of the  recognition period during the last 5 years of the 13 year cycle when  more and more participants get involved.  This is why this Gold Bull is  just warming up and by the time it peaks out, it will be like 1999 in  Tech stocks.  The demand overseas for gold and obviously in China is  likely to continue for many years to come, don\u2019t be fooled by the  various wave dips in sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The SP 500 on the other hand is very similar since the March 2009  lows.  The Bears have continued to focus on Jobs reports and other  ephemeral data and not the big picture.  My opinion is the great bear  cycle ended in March 2009 at 666 on the SP 500, at least for a several  year cycle up. When we hit 666 it was an exact 61.8% Fibonacci  re-tracement of the 1974 SP 500 lows to the 2000 SP 500 highs.  It took  about 8-9 years to correct that 26 year move, and the pattern fits with a  \u201cwave 2\u201d pessimistic Elliott Wave bottom.  That is why the move since  666 has been stunning, because nobody sees it   coming. The correction  we had this summer I forecast in mid-April and ended on July 1st at 1010  on the SP 500. At the level of 1010, we had a 38% Fibonacci  re-tracement of the March 09 to April 2010 13 Fibonacci month rally, and  a 38% re-tracement of the 2007 highs to 2009 lows.  Those types of  patterns are not random and in fact are big clues to get long the  market. The problem is those patterns are hidden amongst the noise of  the markets, CNBC, and all of that useless data. Currently we are in a  3rd Elliott wave up which began at the 1040 SP 500 pivot, and my  forecast since has been for 1205-1220 before a corrective 4th wave down.  Before it\u2019s all over, the SP 500 may well test the 2007 highs on this  new cycle up from March 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarkettrendforecast.com\/forecasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/TMTF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Market Trend Forecast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themarkettrendforecast.com\/forecasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/TMTF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribers to my website get weekly updates and regular intra-week commentary as needed, please consider subscribing. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Today we are offering a 2 day only  12 months for the price of 6 months special in celebration of the US  mid-term elections today. Enter \u201c<em> <\/em><\/strong>1246month<strong>\u201d  in the coupon field upon joining. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Your price will automatically drop to the semi-annual price.<strong> <\/strong> You may follow us on twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/activetrading\" target=\"_blank\">www.twitter.com\/activetrading<\/a> and also sign up for our free reports at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetechnicaltraders.com\/237-8-3-21.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.MarketTrendForecast.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent forecast updates for my subscribers and also in my free articles online, I have expounded on the virtues of Elliott Wave Theory, which I use as my linchpin for my short and long term views. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}