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Stocks: Why This "Trend Following" Indicator is Worth Watching

Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022 Feb 28, 2022 - 11:52 AM GMT

By: EWI

Stock-Markets

This "is compatible with a stock market that has further to decline"

Large Speculators are a sector of traders monitored by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and are comprised mainly of hedge fund managers and trend followers.

History shows that this group of traders is usually wrong at key market turns.

The Commercials, which you might call the "smart money," is another sector of traders monitored by the CFTC. They usually take positions opposite that of Large Speculators and are usually right.

This indicator is especially useful when the positions that Large Speculators and Commercials have established reach extremes at the same time a market's Elliott wave pattern suggests a trend turn is nigh.


With that in mind, let's review a chart and commentary from our Feb. 14 U.S. Short Term Update, a thrice weekly Elliott Wave International publication which provides near-term forecasts for key U.S. financial markets:

Friday afternoon's release of the most recent Commitment of Traders Report shows that Large Speculators in E-mini S&P 500 futures are net long 7.20% of total open interest, nearly reaching the record 8.12% registered during the last week of January... The willingness of the trend-following Large Specs to maintain a near-record commitment to bullish bets even though the E-mini S&P is still down nearly 9% from its January high is compatible with a stock market that has further to decline.

As you probably know, the downtrend in the stock market has persisted since this analysis published on Feb. 14.

Indeed, on Feb. 17, the S&P 500 slid 2.1% and the Dow Industrials suffered its then worst single-day 2022 decline, closing more than 600 points lower.

The S&P continued to decline on Feb. 18, with the Dow down by triple digits, making it two weeks in a row that the senior index closed in the red.

And, as of this writing intraday on Feb. 22, the stock market is once again in the red.

Keep in mind that no indicator or service can guarantee that a particular forecast will work out.

In this case, our analyst's confidence level was high as the Elliott wave model also suggested further decline.

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This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline Stocks: Why This "Trend Following" Indicator is Worth Watching. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.


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