Beware the Rally

By John Del Vecchio and Brad Lamensdorf

The market is incredibly overbought.

However, recent action is indicative of a classic bear market rally.

If history is a guide from here, the rally will likely be short-lived.

The chart on the next page helps put bear market rallies in perspective. The DotCom bust let to a 78.40% loss.

However, there were eight bear market rallies during the bloodbath from 2000-2002.

Eight!

Each one of those rallies was a sucker rally. The purpose of the rally was to pick your pocket as investors rushed in only to have the market turn against them.

In addition, many of the rallies were substantial.

For example, a 28.45% rally in four weeks!

43.74% gains in seven weeks!

51.32% gains in 16 weeks!

40.96% gains in eight weeks!

Those are big moves. Those moves have the effect of lulling investors into complacency.

Now is not the time to be complacent.

Now is the time to be extremely focused.

Now is the time to add to hedges.

As long as the liquidity situation remains unfavorable then any rally will be a head fake.

A classic bear market rally.

We saw one this summer.

We warned readers the entire time that the rally was a classic bear market rally. Then there was a smash followed by another rally.

Time for another smash…

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