Saturday, May 16, 2009

Major Distribution Day and the Magic Number Three

While I’m updating my chart book, I found this chart: 7.1.3 Major Accumulation/Distribution Days. I have an interesting thought about this chart and like to share with you. It’s purely speculation, so just for fun only.

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My theory about Major Distribution Day (I know lots of people call it 90% down day) is that a Major Distribution Day never comes along, so once the first one happens, there’ll be at least another one, unless a Major Accumulation Day kicks in, then the Major Distribution Day has to be recounted.

My theory about magic number three is, well, I found interestingly, the 3rd time usually is different.

Now look at the chart, we had 2 previous Major Distribution Day, both cancelled by a Major Accumulation Day thereafter. Now this is the 3rd time we have a Major Distribution Day, so my question is: Will the 3rd time be different?

3 comments:

  1. Cobra,

    And 3 is a Fib#, though there's quite a Fib crowd at 1, 2, 3, & 5.

    A graphic observation: since the green accumulation bars are on a scale of 0 to 40, while the red distribution bars are on a scale of 0 to 80, the accumulation significance is exaggerated. If this is something you can change w/ the chart vendor's interface, normalizing the two scales would help interpretation.

    That's just a suggestion -- more importantly, your work continues to add appreciated insight.

    Best,
    aka_ces

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  2. It's all relative on what is considered "major" though.

    The last one might be stretching it?

    fakeout/real?

    Slow bleed out downward?

    I don't know the ezact percentage, heck you might though cobra. lol

    When option expo week is down, the next week has a higher probability of being follow-through (down as well).

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  3. aka_ces, thanks for the suggesion but I cannot change the scale as there's no interface allowing me to do that. :-(

    Erik, I've changed the chart a little, any ratio > 9 is considered as major or 90% up/down day. This is widely agreed.

    There's a statistics about 90% up day here: http://cobrasmarketview.blogspot.com/2008/09/09302008-market-recap-major.html. I doubt if this kind of statistics are still valid nowadays though since we've seen too many 90% up days.

    Thanks for the follow-through theory. Let's wait and see.

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