CTC.a Canadian Tire Corp.

Here are 3 charts, large medium and small, there is nothing more to say;

ctc.a oct 2011 l

Except that wave 1 seems to be missing, but then wave 5 is pretty robust.

ctc.a oct 2011 m ctc.a oct 2011 s

Wave 1 down in the medium term chart is a fairly rare type 2 wedge, but it is well formed which makes it more credible. A sell of course.

TSC, Tractor Supply Corp.

tsc oct 2011

Tractor Supply Corp is a hardware store that sells things like chainsaws, garden tractors , fencing and so on. Very comparable to a country co-op.  It is enjoying brisk sales, at least in Connecticut as a result of the recent snowstorm. This looks like a B wave, or a 5th wave if it manages to get to about $75. After that it should be downhill fast.

PH, Parker Hannifin

PH history

This is verbatim from the Jan 29, 2011 blog. This was the easy part. A perfect B-wave, a Mnt. Everest situation right at the $100 mark and hitting the upper channel line. I used to consult this company on FX some 30 years ago. They are great at hydraulics and engineering, but not much else. But recently someone must think that they found a way to make water burn. Here are the long and short term charts once again.

ph l oct 2011 ph s oct 2011

The left, longer term chart is there just to show, once again, that wave patterns form with almost ridiculous accuracy. The results are uncanny. Our prediction at that time was for $55, the “pause” level. That was wrong as the stock went to $59. In hindsight we must assume that the wave 5 was a wedge and did not live up to its full potential, normal for wedges. What we did not anticipate is the violence of the next rebound. From $59 to $85 in a matter of three weeks. This melt-up is unheard of. In my opinion this has to be a short covering move. Typically you go short on stocks that have moved up for no good reason other then momentum. So then things reverse it is these same stocks that have to be bought back. But, from an EW perspective this stock will continue down almost certainly. The hard part is waiting for wave 2 to complete (somewhere here and soon).

HangSeng and Shanghai indices

Never know which is which, sometimes only the derivatives are available on the charting system. One would think that when the world is looking to China to be the savior of our economic system , first by providing cheap goods, then by providing the cash that allows us to maintain low interest rates and then by providing the bailout money to keep things going, that some of this would rub off on the local stock markets as it does on Toronto’s condo market where most units (70+%) are presold to overseas buyers sight unseen , should be expected. Not so, here is the DJSH, then and now;

Shanghai DJ Index Jan10 2010 DJSH oct 2011

On the left comments from early January of 2011 anticipating a drop. On the right what happened. It did drop but then came back to finish the A-B-C. Now it is dropping for real and at roughly 300 it is trading at about 1/2 of it’s peak value. Not all that impressive for a country that has a fiat currency and a fiat banking system and recently added liquidity to the tune of about 1/2 of GDP. The Hang Seng is even worse;

Hang Seng Hang seng oct 2011

The Hang Seng index (Hong Kong), predictable collapsed once the large B-wave correction was complete. At the recent 165 low it was trading at 1/2 of the peak value in late 2007, much worse than the Dow Jones Industrials or the S&P. In detail, it looks a great deal like the copper stocks and the European indices;

Hang Seng b oct 2011 Hang Seng s oct 2011

Notice that overlap is a long way away, that the Oct. correction is a clear as a bell a-b-c with just a little more to go before c=a. None of this bodes well.