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PUBLISHED BY INSTITUTIONAL ADVISORS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 2008
Technical observations of RossClark@shaw.ca

Capitulations Abound

The Capitulation/Exhaustion model was designed to identify times when markets are significantly overextended and susceptible to a price reversal. It can be employed in all time frames; interday, daily, weekly and monthly. While markets may be ready for a reversal based upon the alerts, investors should look for some sign of confirmation in price action or a change in volume characteristics to assist in the timing of the reversal.

Last week’s daily alerts in the US Dollar, Euro and Canadian Dollar were important preliminary warnings of the violent reversals we are seeing this week. The 20 and 50-day exponential moving averages are reasonable price targets. As we have seen over the past decade the gold and silver markets are staging rallies with the decline in the US Dollar.

Daily capitulations are also present in the crude oil and copper markets. Another point of interest in the oil market is the extent of the decline. The major declines of the past forty years found support and staged two to eight month consolidations/advances once prices had declined by roughly 56%. The only exception was in 1985 when Saudi Arabia increased production from 2 million bpd to 5 million bpd and that decline was 69%. That was part of the Reagan plan to defeat the Soviet Union. Something similar could restrict the ambitions of Putin and Chavez, for example.

As noted weekly capitulations were becoming evident in major indices with the financial panic into October 10th. The list now includes the S&P500, S&P 100, Dow Industrials, NASDAQ Composite, NASDAQ 100, TSX Mines & Minerals and CDNX Venture Exchange.

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BOB HOYE, INSTITUTIONAL ADVISORS
November 5th, 2008
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