-- Posted Wednesday, 8 April 2009 | Digg This Article | Source: GoldSeek.com

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

“Phenomenally accurate forecasts”

Our “Goldman Sachs indicator” got caught in a tug of war yesterday, rising in the early going even though most stocks seemed eager to retreat. Goldman shares eventually fell too -- in the final minutes of the session -- but not before hinting that bulls could have the last word before Good Friday ends this trading week a day early. Notice in the chart below how Goldman’s peak yesterday occurred two cents above last Friday’s high, 119.76. Two cents may not sound like much, and many chartists would probably read yesterday’s high as a double top. However, according to the Hidden Pivot Method that we use to forecast and trade, the tiny overshoot was sufficient to refresh the bull cycle begun almost exactly a month ago. As a result, we view the stock as more likely over the near term to hit 130 than to fall to 100.  It closed yesterday near the middle of that range, at 116.08, down 57 cents on the day.

Regardless of whether Goldman leads the market higher over the near term, we could hardly be more bearish on the big picture. One reason, as even Wall Street’s most vocal shills seem to be acknowledging these days, is that corporate earnings for Q2 are going to be not merely atrocious, but catastrophic. Some might argue that the stock market has already discounted this prospect, and that may be so, but it begs the question of whether it has further discounted earnings that could be even worse in Q3 and Q4. While the Obama Administration and Larry Kudlow have their special reasons for reassuring us the economy will have bottomed by then, we suspect that most investors are waiting for better evidence of this than the current, garden-variety bear rally on Wall Street.

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-- Posted Wednesday, 8 April 2009 | Digg This Article | Source: GoldSeek.com

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