Hindsight. Reversion to the mean. suggests market still has a little more room to fall


Last year during the mania, some people could tell that the charts' parabolic movement was abnormal, and the textbook says there is always big retracement following big spikes. Smart/big money was playing a game of musical chairs, and bailed out at the top. Retail said “stocks to the moon” and kept FOMO'ing in near the top.

https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=QQQ&p=m&tas=0

If you look at the monthly chart on the index, whenever there's major negative sentiment, the price approaches the 50 month simple moving average. Last 2 times were late 2018 and covid.

From Jan 2017 to Jan 2019, QQQ went from ~120 to ~190, back to ~150. A little more than 50% retracement.

So considering covid low to peak and 50-60% retracement, and judging by where the 50SMA (~$250) is, $275 QQQ isn't unreasonable, though there is support around $300 during 2020 bull mania.

I bet big money isn't buying into the market until QQQ is in the $275-300 range, and you probably shouldn't either. We're almost there.


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