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    Posted: 17 Dec 2008 at 1:38pm
Bear Market Bottom — Fund managers buying?
 
Towards the end of a bear market, the fund and institutional managers start buying up cheap stocks.

Question: Is it possible to detect this buying activity? and is this a reliable indicator of a bear market bottomming?

If you have different ideas about a bear market bottom, then please post it in another Topic, or if you can't find one, create a New Topic like this one.

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News today (AFR):-
 
(1) Russell Investments has surveyed 41 fund managers, and the number who prefer cash has fallen from 50% to 13%. Also, the number who are bullish about the local market is now up to 54%.
 
(2) Roger Montgomery (Clime Asset Management) is a Buffett-style value manager whose portfolio was 70% cash, but is now down to 40% cash.
 
BEWARE:- This is not a recommendation, nor investment advice.
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no matter what the surverys say, at the end of the day, the volume bars in conjunction with price will show whats happening.
 
There is no magic number for volume. Everything is relative. So I use a 50 day EMA on volume to gauge higher or lower volume activity and in relation on previous volume bars. I use semi log scale on volume pane which helps with the relative analysis. Will post some examples later.


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I agree with rbbrain



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Just to add my 2 bits.  If you study Volume Spread Anaysis (VSA) then, despite my comments about the construction of individaul indicators being being judgemental, in the Bullscript post, one thing it is very good at is indicating on charts at the right edge when market tops and bottoms are approaching and reversing direction based on Signs of weakness relevant Signs of strength.  It relies purely on relative strength of volume and relaltive spreads in the price action, and the authors emphasis Whyckoff advice to be wary of the news and annoucements about what "Smart Money" is doing. 
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If any interest I posted a VSA chart under VSA posts in Bullscript Section that shows Some VSA indicators at end of GFC bear market for BHP
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With a severe bear market in place in 2020, due to the global coronavirus pandemic, bear market bottom hunting will be the discussion topic in the May 2020 User Group meeting/webinar. Any early thoughts on the topic under this heading of fund managers can be posted here.
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My study of wave price vibrations suggest technical indicators will be of no help to identify a market bottom until at least 3 to 7 daily bars have expired after a market has turned around.

Anyone who has studied JM Hurst will recall that he suggested forseeable fundamental events influencing investor thinking about industry groups and specific issues account for 75% of the price motion of stocks or the trends.  That seems to hold true for Covid-19 as it was only in March 2020 when the market panicked after understanding the full implication of the pandemic.  

Hurst suggested 23% of price motion is oscillatory in nature and semi-predictable -by indicators like his centered moving averages/envelopes).    The remaining 2% of price movement is random.

An old but reasonable major trend reversal signal for a fast-moving stock was Gann's Rule of Three, which is looking for three sequential higher or lower closes in the opposite direction to a main trend as a reversal signal.

In the image below,  such a bar has not arrived yet, so I assume in the bigger picture the trend is still down for the time being.  (There seems to be a problem uploading images to this post.  So I will try again later).
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Image problem was fixed

The first chart below is a basic version of Gann's Rule of Three from his Wall Street Stock Selector book.  Gann provided the data in the book which I converted to Excel and then Metastock format so I could be read by Bullcharts.  Gann suggested he sold the Rule of Three to other traders who wanted to know his secret for over $1,000 before 1930.  As it is a time and price method for fast-moving stocks, I suspect it was a practical application of his Law of Vibration from 1909.

The Rule of Three is looking for three sequential closes in the opposite direction to the main fast-oving trend.  The rule does not work so well with slow moving trends.
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A Slow/Fast-moving trend can be identified using ADX.

Good study.
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