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updated 22nd June'09  

N.B. Above Chart is abstracted from NextView Program

Last week we said that, "Well on one hand we have end June financial reports coming up for many corporation and fund managers. This will be positive to the market for many fund managers would like to do some window dressing for their portfolio holding. However, markets are really very over bought and that an immediate correction could be any time. We believe these two forces will continue to play in the market until July. For the coming week, we do not have many important data. We only have on Monday Housing Index for Home Builders, Tuesday's PPI and housing starts, Wednesday's CPI and Thursday's weekly jobless claims. These may have impact to the market but are not as important as data such as non-farm payroll. As such, we believe market may be going for some form of correction but may rebound by end of the week. For DJIA, we believe it will have support at 8600 and could be bouncing up from there by end of the week." True enough, while DJIA appeared to make some correction, the big drop did not materialized. We also said that, "As for STI, it may continue to drift lower and test the support at 2350. A break at this level, will lead to the index testing another support around 2270. Only a break below 2270 will lead to a bigger degree correction." Again we were right, STI did continue to correct and at one stage it broken below 2270 and only managed to close slightly above it on Friday. So, moving forward we are now heading to end of June, will the market hold on to this level and push up further on the last week for window dressing? OR will the market starts to drop from here, as too many investors are expecting the window dressing?

Well if my reading is correct, the global markets were going through a distribution process over the past one month, where most of the funds that invested in early March'09 were happily taking profit ahead of their financial report. Leaving those late comers and retail investors holding the babies. Will the end June window dressing come into play? I am not very sure, for the more people expect it to be, the less chance it will be happened. Remember when thing becomes obvious, it is obviously wrong! For this week, the economic data are relatively light. We only have on Tuesday Existing home sales, Wednesday Durable goods and New home sales, Thursday Jobless claims and Friday Consumer sentiment. These data may not create any big movement for the market. We also have Fed meeting on Wednesday and the bond auctions, which may have some impact to the market, but may not be substantial. As such some window dressing during this quite period is still possible, but I would expect to be very brief and if any, could be on selective stocks only. However, once investors sense that there are no big window dressing activities, a bigger degree sell down may occur. We believe USA market has completed its top on 11th June and is now in the process of coming down. The only thing that we are not sure is, whether it will drop from here or it will have a small rally on month end window dressing before selling down. As such, for aggressive investors, we would suggest you to start shorting now. However, if you are a conservative trader, you can start shorting when DJIA breaks below 8460. As for STI, if there is a short term rally, it will likely be capped at 2320 and should start to come down from there. A break below 2240 will ignite another big sell down. As such, we remain short since last week when STI broke below 2350 and kept our stop loss just above STI high at 2424. If STI breaks below 2240 we will add more short positions. As for mid term customers, I would assume you have squared all your positions by now. You may also try to add more short positions when STI breaks below 2240.
The following are the support and resistance to watch for Dow Jones, Hang Seng and Nikkei next week.

                       Dow Jones   Hang Seng     Nikkei
Resistance       8640            18700           10000
Support             8475            17650            9650

As for STI the resistances and supports are as follow:
Resistance:      2320, 2350, 2371, 2424, 2465, 2500
Support:            2270, 2150, 2100, 2050, 1960

Events To watch For The Coming Week:

  1. The movement in Dow Jones Industry and NASDAQ..
  2. The movement in currencies, bond, oil and commodities price.
  3. The Wednesday Fed's meeting.
  4. The economic data include Tuesday Existing home sales, Wednesday Durable goods and New home sales, Thursday Jobless claims and Friday Consumer sentiment.

The following are two possible wave counts on STI as at to-date:

  1. Preferred Count (60% probability)-- bullish count
    My preferred count calling for a top at 2502 (on 7/1/2000) as wave ((1)), it then follow by a two year sell off on wave ((2)) to 1197 (on 28/9/2001). The index had then entered into an  impulsive wave ((3)) that ended at 3906. We are now in the development of wave ((4)), of which we expect it to be a big triangle formation that take about one to two years to complete. The recent sell down is the first leg of wave ((4)), which will take a form of a-b-c and reaches the potential target of 2770, as the wave (a) of ((4)). The index will then continue to develop the (a)-(b)-(c)-(d)-(e) triangle formation.
     
  2. Alternate Count (40% probability)-- bearish count
    My alternate count calling for a top at 2502 (on 7/1/2000) as wave ((1)), it then follow by a two year sell off on wave ((2)) to 1197 (on 28/9/2001). The index had then entered into an  impulsive wave ((3)) that ended at 2666 in May 2006. The index had then entered into wave ((5)) that ended on 3906 in October'07. We are now in the downtrend bear market, which will last for a few years! Although this count remains as the least chance as compare to my preferred count. If the index breaks below 2776 convincingly on very high volume, the odd on bear market will significantly increase.

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