Clues about the end of this bear market..
Bear market Ending
Bear markets end very quietly - with a whimper not a bang. They surely do not end with eager traders driving the marked-down prices of former market leaders to double and triple gains in a few weeks of a bear rally, as was happening recently. Nor do they end with Dalal Street salesmen and mutual fund managers still recommending stocks and bonds for the short or very long term to clients with huge paper losses.
HOW WILL THIS BEAR MARKET END?
I feel much more comfortable with this question due to my full-time market experience.some of the charaterstics of the end of bear market will be a scene like the following., but it will surely occur.some where in the begginning of 2010,i dont know but it may take that much time or no.
1.With or without a sharp panic, mutual fund redemptions will eventually reach very large levels, exceeding all previous records.
2.The number of mutual funds will drop very sharply through mergers and outright closings.
3.Employment in the overall financial services industry will decline to low levels.
4.Major brokerage houses and even the exchanges will be affected by massive cutbacks.Trading volume will decline rather sharply on all exchanges.
5.Blue chip stocks will drop to levels that are now unbelievable.
6.IPOs will be non-existent or very rare. Cash investments will be popular so long as inflation remains fairly low, but when there is a serious threat of inflation, precious metals will soar.
7.Tight money position even when the interest rates might have come down.
Nobody wants TIPS anymore.
8.Investors all greatly feared and no body dare to enter market on any conditions,complete mistrust and folks of distruction are spread about market and everyone feels blessed for being out of it.
please if such above mentioned situation is seen then that will mark the end of the bear market.there i will be willing to put my money and wait for a situation where the opposite occurs so that i can very readily book the biggest of profits.
I continue to be amazed at the huge number of presumably intelligent fund managers and investment advisors who continue to demonstrate no knowledge of the existence of the 60 year-old Elliott Wave Principle which completely explains the past, present and future action of our major market indices. Is it really ignorance or just their continuing need to sell their same old stocks and funds?Blue channels still cling on to the hope of continuation of the mega trends which is now the part of the history.Why dont we understand four and a half years of bull market will not end with one year of bear,the stocks the indices all need to occillate to the maximum possible angle before the chaos ends.
Finally, I suspect that the investing masses will be long gone from the scene when the bear market ends. A small group of Elliott Wave followers will still exist and have the knowledge to prepare for the next bull leg. The Capital market Journal may still be publishing to a greatly reduced readership, but Economic times and the financial section of most newspapers may have disappeared. I choose not to predict what satyam and Internet will be doing when all of the above events have occurred, but I am sure that Infosys and Larsen will be here.
But do not despair, some day a new and greater Dalal Street establishment will rise from the ruins of the old. A new generation of investors will be born and become buyers of Dalal Streets offerings. The stock and bond markets will grow and expand. A great new bull market will be born. The grand old boom and bust cycle will start again, but I think it will be a very long time in the future and few of my readers will be here to participate..
COURTESY: RAJESH
TECHNICAL ANALYST AND TRADER....