2005issue C051-4
Nested timing bands for dominant-cycle confirmation
This case study stacks stock-market work into nested degrees and writes each average length as a timing band. A cycle start or cycle top waits on overlapping windows and on swing turns from the daily scale back to the monthly scale.
- The case stacks three nested stock-market rhythms: an annual length of about 12 months, a next-smaller length averaging about 22 weeks, and a trading length of about 40 days.
- A cycle start is framed as overlapping timing bands, and 70 to 80 percent of bottoms are treated as falling inside the shared window.
- Degree confirmation runs as a ladder of swings from daily to weekly to monthly, then verifies from the shorter degree back to the longer one.
- A cycle profile of advance duration and a break in the staircase of highs and lows, called cyclical deterioration, are used as warnings that the next larger degree may be turning.
Three nested stock-market rhythms
Stock-market cycle work in this case study stacks three nested rhythms: an annual length of about 12 months, a next-smaller length averaging about 22 weeks, and a trading length of about 40 days.
A dominant cycle is the average length treated as the primary rhythm on a given market and chart scale. It is used to locate an expected timing window rather than a single date. Each of those average lengths is written as a timing band, the interval around the average in which a bottom or top is treated as clustered, not guaranteed.
A cycle start as overlapping windows
A cycle start is framed as overlapping windows. When the annual rhythm is inside its expected bottoming month, the 22-week and 40-day windows are checked for coincidence.
The case treats 70 to 80 percent of bottoms as falling inside that shared band.
Degree confirmation from short to long
Turn confirmation is described as a ladder of swings from daily to weekly to monthly, with the larger timing band expected to contain the medium and smaller bands. After that nesting is in place, verification runs from the shorter degree back to the longer one.
Nested degrees are the stacked cycle lengths on daily, weekly, and monthly scales that are expected to turn together at a larger-degree pivot. Degree confirmation is the required sequence of swing and indicator turns from the shortest degree to the longest before a cycle start or top is accepted.
Turn tools beside oscillators
Oscillators are not treated as the only turn tools. The case also specifies a 5-3-3 stochastic, a dedicated cycle-turn measure for intermediate confirmation, and a trend measure used to keep the larger direction in view.
Cycle profile and cyclical deterioration
The longer stock-market rhythm labeled a four-year cycle is quantified from a sample starting in 1896 and is described as averaging 47 months. Individual cycles are allowed to contract and expand around that average.
A cycle profile is a historical template of how long an advance or decline at a given degree has typically lasted and whether it has held or broken the prior extreme. One annual-cycle profile rule is advance duration: an advance that fades in six months or less is treated as more likely to break the prior low, while an advance that holds into the seventh month or longer is treated as more likely to stay above that low.
In a strong uptrend, each trading-cycle low and high is expected to form above its predecessor. A violated prior low or a failure to exceed a prior high is labeled cyclical deterioration and treated as a warning that the next larger degree may be topping.
Length depends on the market
Dominant-cycle length is treated as market-specific. A four-year rhythm is assigned to the dollar, an eight-and-a-half to nine-year rhythm to gold, and a three-year rhythm to a broad commodity basket.
Meaningful cycle expectations are said to require a large historical population. The case illustrates this by tracing the four-year stock-market sample to 1896 and describing it as more than 100 cycles, while a shorter commodity-basket sample is noted as weaker by comparison.
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- 1988Auditing the forty-month stock-price cycle
- 1989When long-wave dominant cycles cannot be disproved
- 1991Half-cycle average plot shift versus cycle attenuation
- 1991Half-cycle average contact as an amplitude-ratio test
- 1993Building a restoring-pull indicator from cycle frequency and volume
- 1995Regime filters for a dominant long wave
- 1995A cycle-tuned lead filter from bounded oscillators
- 1998Testable cycle rules instead of fear and greed
- 1999Nested Euro cycle timing as one checkable procedure
- 2002Constructing an instantaneous trendline from a dominant cycle
- 2002Half-cycle center of gravity oscillator from moving-average balance
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- 2014Construct a trough-to-trough cycle map with the Detrended Price Oscillator
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