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----- Original Message ----- 
 
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:40 PM 
Subject: Gordon Harms report  
  
                  
10/15/04 MARKET CLOSE 
                  
TIMING IS EVERYTHING 
           
MARKET CLIMATE/OUTLOOK-  
Low Interest Rates          
-Bullish  
Gross Domestic Product      -Bullish Up 3.3% 
was Up 4.5%  
S&P500 Expected Earnings    -Bullish $69.44 up from 
$68.67 
INFLATION: 3 month moving average; 3 down, Favorable 
CPI, Aug 2.97% (Inflation), down from 3.10% in Jul. 
PPI, Sept 3.58% (Inflation), down from 3.85% in Aug. 
ECRI, Oct is 0.97%, down from 1.03% in Sept. 
  
MARKET TREND: Favorable 
S&P500 is 38.04% UNDERVALUED below an estimated 1788 fair 
value, 
  based on 
historical S&P 500 earnings, P/E and US30 bond yield. 
S&P500 annual earnings growth is 62.57%/year. Low -51.41% on 
4/19/02. 
  Long term 
S&P earnings growth rate average is near 6%. 
Dollar index is down 4.80% from 5/13/04. 
Long Term Index Cycles    
-Bullish, 6 of 8 moving Up, 4 of 8 are OS. 
All six trading systems are holding mutual funds from 6/23/04. 
SP-CP is 1.05% BELOW 1120 the 200sma which is rising. Was 
+0.24%. 
SP-CP is 0.05% ABOVE 1108 the 50sma which is rising. Was 
+1.42%. 
  
MARKET TREND: Unfavorable 
May through Oct is seasonally unfavorable on average. 
Trailing S&P earnings     -Bearish $56.15 up 
from $52.00. 
NYSE Volume Sum Index     –Bearish, turned down 
10/08/04. 
NASDAQ Volume Sum Index   
–Bearish, turned down 10/12/04. 
Short Term Index Cycles   
-Bearish, all 8 are moving down. 
  
MARKET VALUATION: Unfavorable 
Estimated S&P500 P/E for the coming year is 15.96. 
The S&P500 P/E ratio is 19.74(4 to 20 is range: 1870 to 
1997) 
  based on 
trailing earnings. Trailing P/E was 45 in April 2002. 
S&P500 Inflation adjusted real dividend yield is -1.14%. 
  Prior week was 
-1.16%. BUY at greater than approx.-1.50%. 
S&P 500 market value is 3.42 times book value. Was 3.46 last 
week. 
  
MONETARY LIQUIDITY: Favorable 
Three month ROC of M3 money is 0.19%, last week was 0.06%. 
Money Market yield is 1.00%. Was 1.00%. 
Money Market funds are 1.918 trillion, was 1.918 trillion. 
5 Yr Note yield is 3.46% down from 3.35%.  
10 Yr Note yield is 4.20% down from 4.10% 
20 Yr Note yield is 4.95% down from 4.84%. 
10 Yr Note minus 13 wk T-Bill is 2.43(4sma). 
  
PSYCHOLOGY: 3 Neutral, 1 Bull  
CBOE Equity Total Vol. Put/Call Ratio: .79, last week was .71. 
  Market: Bullish 
> 0.60 and Bearish < 0.30 
Market Vane(Commodity/Futures): 63% Bullish, last week was 62% 
Bullish. 
  Market: Bullish 
< 25% and Bearish > 65% 
AAII 44.7 bull and 28.2% bear. 3 wk SMA Ratio = 0.63. 
3 wk SMA Ratio > 1.10 = Bullish, >> Bullish = > 1.50, < 
0.35 = Bearish 
USB Index of Consumer Optimism 74 Sept. was 77 Aug. Estimated 
neutral. 
Estimated bullish < 41, bearish > 142. 
 
  
RELATIVE VALUATION(Stocks to Bonds): Mixed 
Stock Value Index is 2.58, was 2.54. Buy greater than 1.03. 
S&P 500 dividend yield is 1.07 times 13 week T-Bill yield. 
Five year note yield is 1.92 times S&P 500 yield.  
  
BONDS: Unfavorable 
The 30 year U.S. Govt. bond real yield is 1.88%, last wk was 1.94%. 
 
  The historical 
average, real yield is near 3.00%. 
The average 30 year U. S. Govt. historical bond yield expected 
 
  is 5.97%, 
current yield is 4.85%. Was 4.91%. 
STBI Bonds are up 10.72% from 5/13/04. Was up 9.43%. 
Bd-Junk bonds up 8.79% from 5/17/04. Was up 8.61%. 
Zero bonds are up 9.36% from 5/13/04. Was up 8.65%. 
20 Yr Note yield minus 5 Yr Note Yield is 1.49%. 
  
DOMINANT MARKET INDICATOR(Beasley): Favorable  
        OTC-C DOMINANT Pos Env, Score 
13/15(IN > 4/15), IN 8/20/04. 
      
  NYC-I          Pos 
Env, Score 9/13(IN > 3/13), IN 6/9/04. 
      
  Total score is 22 of 28, 
last weeks score was 25. 
  
CYCLES     5 WEEK         
10 WEEK          
20 WEEK          
9 Month            
      
WIL-5   OS-Dn,10/11/04   N-Dn,10/12/04   OB-Up,08/26/04  OS-Up,09/02/04 
DJ-30   OS-Dn,10/11/04  OS-Dn,09/20/04    N-Dn,10/14/04  OS-Dn,09/29/04 
RUT-I    N-Dn,10/11/04  OB-Dn,10/11/04   OB-Up,08/25/04  OS-Up,09/10/04 
NDX-X    N-Dn,10/11/04  OB-Dn,10/12/04    N-Up,08/31/04  OS-Up,09/10/04 
N = Stoch >20 <80, OS = Stoch <20 OUT/Buy, OB = Stoch >80 Hold/Sell 
  
SECTOR Averages ranked by percent gain from 4/5/04:(Last intermed. 
High) 
         
Energy     15.8       
Cap-Micro      -7.6 
         DJ-20      13.4       OTC-C          -8.1 
         
Realty      
9.5       Health         
-9.7 
         
Utilities   5.6       Japan 
        -10.3 
         
Bd-Zero     4.3       Hi-Tech 
      -14.2 
       
SYSTEM(NCALPHA)...TRADE....C/MDY..HOLD.....G/L.......ANN/MDD....ONE 
YEAR 
SHARP(Microc2x)...8/26/04....50...SHARP....5.19......47.8/12.1......17.8 
LOSDF(Microc2x)...8/26/04....50...LOSDF....4.40......40.0/10.4......19.1 
MDSDF(Microc2x)...8/26/04....50...MDSDF....5.69......42.6/10.4......16.5 
NCALP(Microc2x)...8/26/04....50...NCALP....4.91......54.2/12.1......11.9 
S&P500(Microc2x)..8/26/04....35...SP-CP....0.28......15.1/9.3........6.5 
OTC-C(Microc2x)...8/26/04....35...OTC-C....3.16......32.2/16.7.......3.1 
S&P500 
Buy/Hold...10/15/03..252...SP500..............10.0/49.2.......5.9 
OTC-C 
Buy/Hold....10/15/03..252...OTC-C..............11.5/77.9......-1.4 
REF: Data from Barron’s weekly magazine. 
SHARP: RSPF,WWNP,ASQI 
LOSDF: RSPF,WWNP,CSVF 
MDSDF: RSPF,WWNP,DGSN 
NCALP: RSPF,ASQI,DFAV 
  
  
  
  
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