On Friday, everything (Oil, Gold, AGG, SPX, VIX) went down
except for the USD. How did the Market perform after such a day in recent
years? I did a little research:
Date
|
SPX +1 Day
|
SPX +3 Days
|
SPX +1 Week
|
SPX +1 Month
|
SPX +2 Months
|
SPX +3 Months
|
20090605
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
20090414
|
+1.25%
|
+3.34%
|
+1.02%
|
+6.13%
|
?
|
?
|
20081103
|
+3.82%
|
-3.65%
|
-4.87%
|
-9.89%
|
-4.02%
|
-13.22%
|
20080304
|
+0.52%
|
-2.52%
|
-0.46%
|
+3.27%
|
+6.09%
|
+3.84%
|
20071207
|
+0.73%
|
-1.20%
|
-2.44%
|
-5.88%
|
-11.15%
|
-14.04%
|
20070522
|
-0.12%
|
-0.55%
|
+0.40%
|
-1.41%
|
+1.14%
|
-3.94%
|
20070426
|
-0.01%
|
-0.53%
|
+0.54%
|
+1.60%
|
+0.01%
|
-0.78%
|
20050826
|
+0.60%
|
+1.26%
|
+1.07%
|
+0.87%
|
-1.14%
|
+4.34%
|
20050520
|
+0.39%
|
+0.01%
|
+0.80%
|
+2.26%
|
+3.86%
|
+2.73%
|
20050107
|
+0.34%
|
-0.74%
|
+0.83%
|
+1.31%
|
+3.30%
|
+0.42%
|
Observations:
1. All instances offered good opportunities for bulls and
bears to get out with profits.
2. SPX always went up on the next day, the two losses were
minimal.
3. The 20090414 instance looked rough for bears so far, but
they still had a chance to get out on 20090420 with about 1% in profit.
4. The 20080304 instance also looked rough for bears, but
they had a wonderful chance to cover during the week of 20080315, and they
would make tons of profits after 4 months.
5. The 20050522 was the toughest case for bears, they would
have to wait 5 months for any profits. 20050522 was also close to the bottom of
the 2005 swing market.
Conclusions:
1. Go long ES on Sunday night may be a good idea, especially
for those who have existing short positions.
2. Establishing short position after 1 day should always
generate some profits and even great profits in a bear market, unless some very
bullish patterns show up.
The following is basically a continuation of my
All-up/All-down days analysis. All-down days occurred total six times since end
of 2004, and don't seem to be an useful pattern:
20090428, SPX up 9.93% since then;
20080903, SPX crashed shortly after;
20060223, 20060110, 20051216, SPX went nowhere until May
2006, profits for both sides were minimal.
20050503, pretty much the bottom for SPX until October 2008.
All-up days actually work out much worse for the bulls. 5
instances have occurred since end of 2004:
20080519, SPX went to hell after that day;
20070521, SPX went through a massive correction 2-3 months
after, as shown in the table above;
20060130, SPX didn't go anywhere for the next 4 months, even
when the correction came, bear would make at most 4% off SPX.
20051116, early stage of the SPX bull move between 20051027
and 20060512
20050307, SPX's intermediate top in first half of 2005,
would lose 7.17% by 20050420.