Tribute to Elliott Wave Theory

Just as i met someone in the street (D-street)
who could do things very very straight

Says he believe me or leave me
but you cant forget to remember me
As i unleash patterns everytime
have you no choice but come back to me

Just as i met someone in the street (D-street)
who could do things very very straight

Says he impulse waves 5 times
and corrective waves 3 times
Follow his Length and time, everytime
you give once, get back many times.

Just as i met someone in the street (D-street)
who could do things very very straight

Gives he advice of some sort
like asking me to go short
Dont bother all others being long
see markets obeying him all along

Just as i met someone in the street (D-street)
who could do things very very straight

Is he the one who guides this jungle
making me everyday richer & stronger
He Seems to be the gods own design
giving my trading THE GOLDEN SHINE

                                                                                                              By Raghs

Is it a Confusion Or Conclusion on D-Street?? We say it isn’t both!!

As the euphoria about the reforms unleashing on the one side and anxiety about the stability of the government after TMC pulled out support lingering on the other side the markets are flush with liquidity injected due the QE3 by the US federal reserve and making higher highs and higher lows showing the sign of the bullishness. Is it really a bullish sentiment playing out the mood or is it something else lets take stock of it as below.

As you can see from the below diagram the markets have been drawing down from the top it made on Nov 2010 in a ZigZag fashion making Wave (A), Wave (B) and Wave (C). Now after it made bottom with Wave (C) it has pulled back from there to make a high of 5630 and from there started correcting again upto 4770. 

Now the question here is that, 

Is the move from bottom of Wave (C) upto 5630 is Wave 1 and following correction upto 4770 is Wave 2 and now the current upside which is nothing but a leading diagonal formation (as shown in the fig) could be a first subwave of the Larger Wave 3?

Or

Is it a upward correction of move from Nov top to upto 4531 in which the up move from 4531 to upto 5630 could be a Wave A and the following correction upto 4770 could be Wave B and then now the upward move which is a diagonal can be a ending diagonal of Wave C?

As traders what we have to look at it as in any case the diagonal movement either its sub wave 1 of Larger Wave 3 or the Wave C of upward correction, is near its ending as per Elliott wave rules. The maximum upside can be expected upto 5800 before the correction is expeted to levels near to 5450-5420

Another interesting fact is that if any day the nifty closes above 5630, it can move upto 6060 in the short to medium term. But this move can come only after the correction that we have predicted in the previous Para. 

 So if nifty closes above 5630 any day then the market for short term becomes buy on dips for an upside up to 6060. Or if it doesn’t close above 5630 and corrects from there we have to wait for the 5450-5420 levels to break down to go short in the nifty.

In Both of the above scenarios traders have to wait with patience to get the correct entry either on the long side or the short side.

Markets getting to the Peak but not yet Peaked out!!

For last more than one year its been a sea saw between peaking out and bottoming out in Indian Markets. And this time its no different. As you can see markets have bounced back from the recent lows and now waiting to peak out. The million dollar question is which level it might peak out. Here we show you major 3 indicators which help you in judging the peak.

Firstly if you see the below figure which gives you maximum extent of movement that is possible in terms of Elliott Wave Theory which market seems to be following very studiously. The maximum level that market can go in this pull back is 5335 which is the peak of the 1st wave of the downward impulse move which started in Oct 2010. And this current pull back is the 4th wave which in EWT should not retrace the 1st wave which we mentioned above.

The Second Evidence for market not yet peaking out is shown in fig below. Here we are dissecting this 4th wave shown above to understand the movement little more accurately. Here the pattern that market is making in this move in terms of Elliott's 5 waves is shown. In this figure below we can see that the 3rd wave of the relatively highest degree in this 5 wave structure is still formulating itself by getting divided into smaller and smaller sub waves. Which means unless this 3rd wave is completed we will not be in a position to say that market is peaked out (Assuming that 5th wave will be a truncated one as market is near its probable peak).

The last but not the least is an indicator shown below which gives the FII net flow data (daily basis) in both equity and F&O segments. Interestingly if you notice FII net inflow has peaked every time in last 3 instances at the peak of the market which has not happened still in the current scenario. One more interesting thing about the FII inflow is that net inflow in F&O segment has peaked 5-7 days earlier than the peaking of the FII equity net inflow. As you can see in the figure the peaking of the net inflow has not happened in both the segments yet we might have to wait for some more days before the market could peak out.

Overall the strategy for time being should be to wait for the signals of market peaking out as explained above. We will be updating our strategy for Feb month as soon as we get these above signals.

Beauty of Elliott Wave Theory !!

As being an admirer of R N Elliott's phenomenal discovery of the, almost accurate, underlying structure of any freely traded market I was curious to know whether the same theory is being applied in the fluctuation of the volumes in Indian Markets from the time the data is available and I found the following (shown in fig below)

The graph above is self explanatory as you can see the move in volumes of Indian Stock markets (NSE) from 1995 to 2011 is been perfectly conforming with Elliott's Wave Theory in terms of most of its guidelines and rules.

Also if we apply Fibonacci ratio analysis to this graph the overall up move which we have seen in volumes from 1995 to 2009 is been correcting since and the correction will continue till the time the whole up move retraces 61.8% on the downside. As you can see in the chart the numbers written in red color are the volume figures at bottom, top and 61.8% retracement juncture. 

So before the volume could pick up in the markets it has to dry down to 61.8% retracement level (shown with red line). So this is also a signal for us to know that the markets have bottomed out.