The technical ducks continue to suggest a major rally peak is being formed, with the negative close on Friday completely retracing the gains from rally pushes from earlier in the week, which makes this week two of such Doji Death spike rally failures. The fundamental ducks also are coming home to roost as the second financial shoe dropped in the form of Dubai World asking for a “Time-Out” on repayment of its $90 billion debt.
The first financial shoe was the collapse of the housing bubble that drove banks way beyond the brink of collapse. The second financial shoe is the expected collapse of commercial real estate, of which Dubai World is the poster child of rampant excess in that sector as reality dawns that no amount of debt can even make buildings grow to the sky, nor ski-slopes in one of the hottest places in the world. The third financial shoe - yet to drop - is the collapse of consumer debt as unemployment around the world spikes as financial woes reach the worker in the form of pink slips. The banking system cannot survive any one of these collapsing bubbles, let alone all three arriving near simultaneously.
We will resume the bull/bear debate once we hit the 200 day moving averages as we get to see how the pattern of the expected plunge unfolds, and what the internal leadership looks like at that time. Till then, Buckle up, Lads, and Watch Out Below! As the Dubai World debt debacle is likely to be the tip of a very large melting financial ski-slope and we know in which direction the crap will flow.
401K investors should be invested in money market funds.
Have a great weekend!
Kevin Wilde, Chief Trading Strategist, AlphaKing.com