There was little change in my core market health indicators over the past week. They bounced around a bit, but no big moves. My measures of market strength are very close to going positive, but couldn’t make it this week. As a result, no changes to the core portfolio allocations.

This week had little effect on my core market health indicators. They mostly deteriorated, but in a small way. One significant change this week came from my measures of market quality. They are approaching oversold territory. The last time this happened was in early February just before the market began the current rally. Don’t take that as a prediction, just an observation. The short story is we wait another week to see if the dip continues or ends.

Another week passes and we’re still waiting for a resolution of the long term trend. Is it up or is it down? I don’t know. Dow Theory is still calling the long term trend down. My core market health indicators are mildly positive. That leaves us modestly long in the core portfolios. My market risk indicator isn’t even close to warning so the volatility hedged portfolio remains 100% long. Quite a difference from three reliable methods that use disparate inputs. This is just one more example of the market giving mixed messages. The conclusion is, we’re left waiting for more information in hopes that the different strategies pick the same direction and we get a good trend to ride… either up or down.