A Tale of Charts - Crash Imminent

Economic Collapse Is Really Getting Close – You’ll Never Hear The Crash Coming … Then Suddenly It Blind-sides You – S&P 500 To Drop 25%?

Since 2000, the S&P 500 has declined over 25% twice, each decline had this in common…. These S&P 500 bear markets followed a breakdown of a bearish rising wedge at falling resistance by the Nikkei index.

The Nikkei looks to be slipping below support of a bearish rising wedge and is kissing the underside of the wedge as resistance!

Joe Friday…. The prior two times the Nikkei broke down from this pattern at resistance, in time the S&P 500 followed it!  This is not a prediction that the S&P 500 will fall 25% plus!  Joe just suggests to keep your eye on this leading index, because continued weakness by the Nikkei, could impact the S&P 500 again!

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Then there's Barron's Buzzz...

Economists Have Been Totally Blind-sided By This Month’s Ugly Chinese Data

As you can see, the latest numbers totally caught economists by surprise.

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IN SUM...VERY UGLY 

Here's a sample of a chartist's analysis that lends support to many of the fundamental signals - we are on the edge. One geopolitical event away from the trigger needed to create domino events. Be careful out there!

Investors' Insights
March 18, 2014

2014 Stocks to Drop 50%

Stocks Will Collapse by 50% in 2014

It is only a matter of time before the stock market plunges by 50% or more, according to several reputable experts.

“We have no right to be surprised by a severe and imminent stock market crash,” explains Mark Spitznagel, a hedge fund manager who is notorious for his hugely profitable billion-dollar bet on the 2008 crisis. “In fact, we must absolutely expect it."

Unfortunately Spitznagel isn’t alone.

“We are in a gigantic financial asset bubble,” warns Swiss adviser and fund manager Marc Faber. “It could burst any day.” 

Faber doesn’t hesitate to put the blame squarely on President Obama’s big government policies and the Federal Reserve’s risky low-rate policies, which, he says, “penalize the income earners, the savers who save, your parents why should your parents be forced to speculate in stocks and in real estate and everything under the sun” 

Billion-dollar investor Warren Buffett is rumored to be preparing for a crash as well.

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In the end rising interest rates should trigger the valuation collapse - but charts may act ahead of events 

This is market timing, Buyer-Beware territory, particularly as we only fixed 2008 with just a massive currency printing.