Global Economic Surprises resume downwards, Euro CDS continue upwards, pressure on pro-risk continues in the absence of any notable policy responses. At the time of writing, Europe Friday morning, US stock indices have yet to take out their low of my ‘Capitulation’ post two weeks ago, but the low is at risk as the Dax has broken it.

I maintain two scenarios, that share similarities with Jan’s. The one is that we fall into Monday’s full moon and thereafter a true rally emerges. Supporting that are the extremes that we currently see, such as RSIs sub 20 on crude oil and Euro-USD, insider buying and AAII sentiment at historic market bottom levels, public opinion the US dollar at a new record since 1999. A snapback rally is overdue. We also have potential basing patterns in US stock indices and gold. The second scenario is that the full moon, forecast geomagnetism and Puetz crash window keep the fear in overwheming mode and that we fall further over the next week or two, until we get to the more concrete action in terms of Greek elections, FOMC and Euro conferences later this month. I would be looking for a positive divergence in the Nymo on further falls. If we do fall further, in this second scenario, then some of the indicators are going to be at crazy extremes. Needless to say, I will be attacking any further downside, and maintain that these are glorious pro-risk opportunities here.

First a chart on gold. Here is gold priced in Euros. A more bullish chart than in US dollars, as it shows a pennant forming in an uptrend. The US dollar strength perhaps therefore accounts for why gold in its usual pricing looks technically dubious.

Source: Stock Sage

Next, moving to equities. Kent referred to p/es and his expectation to see us end in single digits, with which I concur. Here is the p/e flow in the last secular bear market of the 1970s:

Source: Zealllc

As can be seen, p/es came down whilst stocks moved up and down – inflation ate away at the p/es whilst supporting stocks nominally. The inflation situation is comparable today – see the Shadowstats, real undoctored data, below:

Source: Dshort

I remind you that we have historic paralells in the 1940s – inflation spike in 1942, then 5 years later higher inflation spike coinciding with solar and secular commodities peak – and in the 1970s – inflation spike in 1975 and then 5 years later a higher inflation spike coinciding with solar and secular commodities peak. In the current period we saw an inflation spike in 2008 and next year is 5 years later and the expected solar peak, and in my expectation, the secular commodities peak. So inflation should eat away at the p/es whilst stocks do OK in nominal terms.

Yesterday I showed the German stocks were already back at their last secular low p/e valuations. Scott Grannis recommends that NIPA profits should be used to assess p/e and this is the picture for US stocks:

Source: Scott Grannis

You can read more about that here, but the message, like with the Dax, is that stocks are back to historically low valuations. It doesn’t mean they can’t go lower, but it again supports my suggestion that we should be looking upwards for equities, not downwards. And one more: Japan:

Source: Japan Stock Exchange / Vector Grader

 Japan by p/e is also back to its last secular bear market ending low.

And lastly a little on my website. I launched Solarcycles.net in mid-February 2012 and now have my first 100,000 hits, so thank you to all who visit and read my analysis. These are the top visitor sources:

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My old site, Amalgamator, has now been removed from the web. If there is anything from the old site that you miss or would like to see again, let me know, as I have a record of most entries and charts.

I am not here next week. I am on holidays and will only have my phone to keep abreast of the markets. There will be no posts or model updates next week.