Weekly Market Updates

As The Edmonton Journal’s Gary Lamphier writes:
I learned long ago to pay attention to what Tuey thinks. That’s why I’ve interviewed him dozens of times over the past 25 years, dating back to my days at the now-defunct Financial Times of Canada. Celebrity forecasters like George Soros, Marc Faber and Abby Joseph Cohen get a lot more airtime, but they’re frequently dead wrong (witness Soros’s repeated wrong-headed predictions about a collapse in China). Tuey, now in his 80s, has a habit of being right. But he doesn’t want or need the spotlight, he says. He’s content to make money for his clients, while accepting their thanks for doing so. He has also reached a point in life where he feels free to be brutally honest about the business in which he has worked for well over half a century. And it’s not all laudatory. “We’re not in the gum-flapping business. This isn’t show business. The proof in the pudding at the end of the day is, show me the money,” he says. “Market forecasting is not rocket science. The key is understanding cause and effect relationships. And the key to that is understanding the central bank’s mandate, and the impact of monetary policy on the economy and the stock market. That’s absolutely essential. If you don’t know that, you start babbling nonsense.”

Since meeting him, Leon and I have exchanged many letters, reports, thoughts, conversations, etc. I received this one from him last week:

Hi, Jeffrey,

I calculate a three week moving average of the Bullish sentiment. Currently, it is abnormally low and [that’s] very bullish. Although long retired, many fund managers in Europe, Asia, and North America still call me and seek my view of the market. I can report to you that worldwide, investors are skeptical and fearful. Most are sitting on a mountain of cash. As you know, that is very bullish. My view remains that this great bull market is only in the early stages of the second leg. The first leg was from October 10, 2008 and ended in May, 2015 which was driven by an easy/accommodative monetary policy. The second leg started in February, 2016 which is always the longest and strongest as it is driven by improving economic conditions (due to the monetary stimulation of the past eight years) and accelerating earnings momentum which is what investors are seeing. As you know, since early last year, I’ve been of the view that investors are witnessing the biggest bull market on record and the end is nowhere near in sight. Also, I felt that when this bull market ends, it will be the wildest and wooliest speculative “blow-off” in history. There has never been so much liquidity created as in this cycle. Also, in my 55 years in this business, from a chart standpoint, I have never seen so many humongous bottoms in so many different industries as in this cycle. Many are 15 years and longer. In the 50s, it was mostly in anything electric/electronic and in the 90s, it was mostly high tech. In this cycle, except for the resource sectors, big bottoms are found everywhere. One of technical prerequisites for a long,

sustained bull market is that many stocks must trace and break out of long bases. Putting my money where my mouth is, I own a few of the small and micro caps in the Biotech/Health Care area.

Enjoy! Leon

If that sounds a lot like Andrew and me it should. It also sounds a lot like my friend Rich Bernstein, the venerable ex-strategist for Merrill Lynch who now hangs his hat at the eponymous firm of Richard Bernstein Advisors. It was years ago, as we were having lunch, I told Rich that I thought this secular bull market had years left to run. He replied, “I think this is going to be the biggest secular bull market of my lifetime!” Obviously, we agree with Leon and Rich regarding the secular bull market and would note the most bullish timeframe starts this fall. The sequence for the recent “bull leg” began when our short/intermediate models flipped positive the week before the presidential election. Regrettably, those same two models, wrong-footedly, called for caution around the end of January looking for a 5% – 10% pullback that never came. Fortunately, they flipped back to positive on April 19th, as chronicled in these reports, suggesting the equity markets were headed for new all-time highs. Last week those new all-time highs were achieved by many indices; and, the ones that didn’t make new highs came very close to doing so. Also within the bookends of the week came yet another Dow Theory “buy signal” as both the Industrials and Transports made new closing highs.

Meanwhile, we are about to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the start of the earnings-driven secular bull market. Recall, the earnings trough came in 2Q16 with earnings improving ever since; and depending on what source you use for 2Q17, earnings are expected to be up 6% to 8%. Moreover, there is a fairly good correlation between the two Purchasing Managers’ Indexes and S&P 500’s corporate revenues. Both of those indices were solid in June, implying that revenue growth should continue its upward trajectory as well.

The call for this week: In his book about Jesse Livermore (the boy plunger) titled, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), author Edwin Lefevre writes about Mr. Partridge (Old Turkey), who was a particularly good investor. So good that other investors would come up to him and ask, “What should I do?” Old Turkey would contemplate the question, cock his head to one side, and with a fatherly smile state, “You know it’s a bull market!” It was as if he was giving you the most priceless advice there is. On another occasion one investor came up to him and told Old Turkey he should sell his shares in Climax Motors as he had done because the stock market was due for a correction and Old Turkey could then buy his shares back at a cheaper price. Old Turkey replied, “If I sold that stock now, I’d lose my position; and then where would I be? I would not lose my job, but I would lose my position. And when you are as old as I am, and you’ve been through as many booms and panics as I have, you’ll know that to lose your position is something that nobody can afford; not even John D. Rockefeller.”

P.S.: As I said on CNBC this morning, “It’s a bull market you know and any weakness is a BUY!”

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