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updated 17th August'09  

N.B. Above Chart is abstracted from NextView Program

Market has finally decided to trade lower after a long waiting period. Is this going to be a big one or just a few days correction? Traditionally the month of August and September are not very kind to the market. By coincident, our Chinese 7th month is also starting soon. These cycle events could have some impact to the market. We believe market will be very tricky for the month of August and September, while the main trend is down, the market may zig saw up and down, which is not good for contra trading. In our opinion, the USA market had started its correction since last Thursday and could carry on for about a month. How low the correction can be and in what form we do not have a clue. However, judging from the bullishness in current market condition, I would not be surprised to see a sharp drop to shack away the weak Bulls before the market resumes its upward surge. For next week, the focus will be on economic data, we have on Tuesday PPI and housing starts, Thursday Jobless claims and the index of Leading Economic Indicators and Friday Existing home sales. Traders will be watching for sign of economic weakness to find excuse for selling down.  With corporate results announcement near the end and time cycle favoring down move, it would be a surprised if a strong rally emerge. We believe DJIA will continue drifting lower towards 9000 or may even touch on support at 8800 in the coming weeks. If you have long positions you may want to get out now. Alternately if you do not have position you may want to consider shorting the market. As for STI, expect it to continue its correction towards 2480 level, and may even go as low as 2424. For Intermediate investors, we would expect you to have gotten out your long positions two weeks ago. And may even started holding short position. You may continue holding your short position for the time being. As for short term traders, perhaps it is time to do more short trades and take advantage on the downward momentum.

                       Dow Jones   Hang Seng     Nikkei
Resistance       9435            21196           10629
Support             9133            19787           10252

As for STI the resistances and supports are as follow:
Resistance:      2680, 2700, 2750
Support:            2604, 2580, 2500, 2465, 2424, 2371

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 corporate result announcements.
  4. The economic data include Tuesday PPI and housing starts, Thursday Jobless claims and the index of Leading Economic Indicators and Friday Existing home sales.

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

  1. Preferred Count (60% probability)-- bullish count