What a market.
If it breaks out, I may have to get in more for the ride. Fidelity thinks the Dow could go lots higher.
"Dave Keller, managing director of technical research at Fidelity, and president of the Market Technicians Association, thinks the momentum behind stocks could continue in the long-run, but there are risks. "In my view, many stocks appear overbought, especially in leading sectors—like health care and financials," Keller says. "This suggests to me that a short-term correction is possible."
However, he thinks that bullish technicals could underpin the market for the foreseeable future. "One tenet of Dow Theory states that an uptrend is a series of higher highs and higher lows, and as long as the index remains above its November 2012 low of 12,471, the uptrend could be intact," Keller points out.
A number of fundamental forces support the theory that stocks can continue to rally. The Federal Reserve has suggested it has no immediate plans to pull back from the $85 billion per month in asset purchases which has supported stocks to a great extent. Additionally, the U.S. housing and manufacturing segments have shown significant improvements over the past year, and booming U.S. oil and gas productivity could be in the early stages of an energy renaissance.
Keller is even more positive about the market’s long-term prospects. "The Dow could continue above 17,000, in my opinion, based on two different approaches. First, the index formed an inverted complex head and shoulders pattern, using the October 2011 low as the 'head' of the pattern. Measuring the distance between the head and the 'neckline', or a trend line connecting the interim tops, projects a high around 17,300," Keller says. "Second, if you apply a Fibonacci analysis1 using the 2007 high and the 2009 low, you can project a 38.2% extension, up to around 17,150."
Thoughts??