Has the Stock Market Bottomed? Time to Buy? By Adam Khoo
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hi this Adam Koo here and we had to week
five of the bear market the kovat 19
pandemic bear market and we actually hit
a law right here at the - 36 percent
mark which is 36 percent below the
all-time high of tree tree 9 tree on the
S&P 500 since we hit the all-time low we
have kind of like rarely up to this
level over here where we still remain
roughly about 20 roughly about 24
percent below the all-time high so the
question is have we seen the bottom and
can start only go up from here
let's export us in this video before I
begin important disclaimer no one can
predict the future and I'm not a
fortune-teller I can't predict for
certain all I can do is I can look at
probabilities is it more probable that
we have bought them and we are likely to
go up or is it less probable and B some
probabilities we can take intelligent
investment decisions that's the first
thing this of us disclaimer right the
second thing is when we attempt to time
the market bottom we can always time it
to the exact day or minute or hour I
love to but it's almost impossible
unless you're lucky all the time but
what I found is in the past I've been
able to time the bottom of bear markets
as close as possible but sometimes I'm
off by about a month or two and I'm
going to show you that it doesn't matter
whether you're off by a month or two but
as long as you are close enough to the
bottom you can make great decisions to
build your fortune once the bull market
arrives alright so with that let me show
you how I determine the probability that
we have actually reached the bottom of
this bear market what things I do is I
look at matric of indicators and one of
the most effective indicators I found in
calling bottoms of bear markets our
combination of two indicators the first
indicator is the Williams our indicator
and I'm using the 52 deep setting right
so again I'm looking
at the sp500 I'm looking at weekly
candles they work best when weekly
candles
so why 52 on the Williams our indicator
because 52 weeks is one year
okay now the Williams our indicator was
invented by Larry Williams one of the
you know best traders in the world
I respect him tremendously and he came
out this indicator to tell when markets
were overbought or when they are
oversold all right so obviously we were
looking for bottom we're looking for the
Williams are indicated to be over Seoul
so how do us all so so look at this
indicator you can see that we've got an
upper boundary which is the -20 boundary
this dotted line over here and we've got
the minus 80 boundary which is this
dotted line over there and of course
we've got all these squiggly lines so
we're looking for this line to go below
minus 80 so for example you see this
year that's all below minus 80 so this
tells you that the market is oversold on
a 52 week time frame and when it's over
Seoul it's like a rubber band stretching
it down what's likely to happen that's
right it's gonna bounce back up again
but I found that just looking at this is
not reliable why for example let's go
back 20 years this was the year 2000 to
2003 this was a bear market as you can
see over there this was about two and a
half year bear market now if you just
look at the Williams are you would have
gotten a buy signal over here right
because it was below minus eighty if you
bought over there guess what in went
lower you got another buy signal bother
when lower another by so you know it's
not really good at you know picking the
bottom because it gets over so but even
more over Seoul so we can't just use
that by itself so what I do as well is I
look at this other indicator that tells
me the average true range that has been
normalized
now what's average true
average range refers to the range of the
candles or the or the daily in this case
the weekly volatility I don't know if
you noticed that when the markets going
down the closer it gets to the bottom
the bigger the volatility the swings
during the day of the week I if you
notice for example about a week ago
right when the market was like you know
minus 36 percent of the all-time high
the market was swinging you know seven
percent one day seven percent of Nyx
days so the Rangers were very very wide
we call it really high range days where
ATR exploded average true range exploded
okay so this indicator tells us when the
range is AB nominally abnormally big
abnormally big alright that's right okay
so you see this dotted line over here
this orange dotted line okay that's the
ad line so anytime the ATR is above 80
the ranges are abnormal okay so when is
it above 80 then there there can you see
that okay great so we've got two
indicators now we have got the we lips
are and for rhythms are we are looking
at it to be below minus 80 correct for
the ATR monoeyes we're looking at it to
be above 80 now here's the thing to call
a market bottom both of them should show
us their signal at the same time in
other words we want to see that the
Williams R is below minus 80 and the ATR
normalized is above 80 when they both
happen at the same time we are very
close to a market bottom okay
so let's go back 20 years and look at
all the bear markets and see how
reliable this indicator was again going
back to the year 2000 that's when
bear market started the dot-com bust
right calm crash and you can see the
market bottom here the market bottomed
in mid of 2002 right now look at
something interesting when the both
indicators coincide that's right at that
point can you see that the Williams are
was below minus eighty over here but it
wasn't a bottom signal because the ATR
was not above eighty okay now over here
check it out the Williams are went below
minus 80 and the ATR went above 80 so we
have got those two indicators coinciding
and that called the market bottomed to
the exact week all right so it once you
get these two signals and you start to
accumulate shares will you be pretty
happy does make sense right pretty cool
right now of course this could be a
one-off fluke so we got to see did it
work in other bear markets as well so
what happened after that so after that
bear market of 2000 or 2000 2002 the
market then went on right market went on
went on so where was the next bear
market there we are so the next bear
market was this boom okay and that was
the financial crisis that started in
October or seven and where did it bottom
okay let's see wet bottom let's just
move the yeah okay so it actually bottom
here it bought them in February of oh
nine so did our indicator work this time
okay let me just zoom it in and you can
take a look for yourself
let's just stretch it a little bit over
there okay so once again market bottomed
was here February over nine
so where did our indicator indicate the
bottom all right
so again you can see Williams are when
below minus eighty starting from here
and we know that it's not accurate
because you thought they would have died
as well right but you can see that at
this point the ATR did not go above
eighty okay now that the ATR went above
eighty here but this wouldn't have been
a buy why because the Williams are was
not below minus eighty so they're not
they are not coinciding they got a
coincide got it
all right so where do they start to
coincide they started to coincide here
at this point so there you have it we
have got the Williams are below minus
eighty and we have got the normalized
eighty are above eighty so the market
bottom was called actually here at this
point right so if you started to
accumulate shares and say okay that's
the bottom over here and you started a
cubic shares over there would you have
caught the exact bottom no you wouldn't
have because you went up a bit and came
down again to make a second bottom can
you see that so like I said this
technique you can't call the exact
bottom and the exact week at the exact
day or hour you may be off by a month or
two but question does it really matter
it doesn't matter why because if you
start up buying shares here what would
have happened okay let's let's move our
charts over there okay so if you started
to buy shares over here yes it went
lower slightly okay but within the next
two months or so would you have been
very happy yes you have caught the next
bull market
remember after every bear market is the
next bull market and you can always
catch the bottom you don't have to as
long as you are near the bottom and this
way I tell people that once this
indicate that shows us where near the
bottom please don't buy all in one day
for goodness sakes you know just buy a
bit first and it's average in
so every week you just buy more buy more
every week so even if you're off by one
or two months it doesn't matter but you
get in near the bottom instead of
getting in here and getting this big
crash you get in there and you're really
happy got it okay when does the next
bear market okay now this was not really
a bear market well it was but it was a
baby bear market like this one over here
right so you can see that this was the a
drop over here MA well it was a very
small bear market and sure enough did we
get the signal again yes we had we limbs
are going below 80 - 80 sorry we had 80
are going above 80 so we had that buy
signal get over here so could have again
bought over there so if you bought over
them would you have been happy buying
over here let's see well yep pretty
happy okay because he's getting in over
there you'd have again caught the next
really strong bull market very very
powerful right okay so let's move on
when was the next bear market so again
going to the right going to right and
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this was a bit of a sell-off not really
a bear market now the next big bear
market was actually there this was
December 2018 the correct yes December
of 2018 you can see that was minus 20%
drop bear market and did we get a buy
signal again yeah Williams are when
below minus 88 er when above 80 yeah
it's really small but it went just above
80 over there check it out just above 80
just touching it okay
so that would have been a buy over there
okay so would you have been happy buying
over there let's check it out ready oh
yeah pretty happy
you have caught that Knicks bull and of
course now we've got the Cobra 19 Black
Swan they just hit us like a ton of
bricks around again alright so again we
can't predict when the next bear market
will come but we kind of like can tell
where we've hit bottom so one week ago
again let me just zoom zoom this in a
bit right
I'm just make it bigger okay there we
are okay so a week ago we plunge to the
bottom here at 2000 tree on the S&P 500
right like I said from the top to the
bottom
it was a 36% drop guess what
Williams our when below minus 80 and 80
our when up above 82 a crazy 120 so this
signal a potential bottom of the market
at 2300 points now coincidentally if you
have watched my bear market survival die
you would have remembered that in the
last hundred years of 21 bear markets
the average bear market as you can see
average of all the bear markets was a
drop of minus 36 percent coincidence
I think yet I don't know maybe secure
incidence maybe it's not right but
that's something interesting interesting
now the other thing I find interesting
is that now let's zoom in a bit closer
right I've been showing you the weekly
charts now let me just zoom into the
daily chance over here let's go to the
daily charts alright so these are the
daily charts you can see that big plunge
all the way down again this is the minus
20% level and this is the minus 30%
level and again we reach the minus 36
percent level over here okay so the
moment we hit that level we started
rallying all the way up right this was
raised very strong rally now here's the
intro
same thing we did not rarely on good
news we rarely on bad news in fact we
read it on the worst possible
economic news that we could have gotten
in fact it was the worst news in the
history of the US markets was the news
the first major bad news that happened
over here was that jobless claims was
3.3 million and then just yesterday we
had the news reporting that jobless
claims was 6.6 million so imagine 6.6
million Americans are out of a job now
that's the worst economic news you could
ever think of and guess what the market
went up so what does it tell you see
bear markets don't die from good news
they die from bad news so once you see
bad news coming out and the market no
longer goes down it tells you that the
market has already expected the worst
case scenario and nothing more you say
can get it to go down another thing the
market is telling you is that everyone
who has needed to sell of desperation or
panic have already sold so there are
hardly any more sellers left and those
who have sold have so they're in cash
right now which means a lot of cash in
the sidelines which means that when a
cash comes back that would drive the
market higher now a lot of people be
thinking and how can the market possibly
go up from here how can it bottom the
economy is gonna get worse more people
are gonna get in fact that we're just at
the beginning of the infection curve
more people are gonna die in fact the
number of deaths is only gonna peak
somewhere in mid-april or mid-may
more people are gonna lose their jobs
now six point six million unemployed
they are now looking at possibly twenty
five percent unemployment rate in the
next few months more people are gonna go
out of business right yes I don't deny
the fact that the economy is gonna get
worse more people are gonna die more
people are gonna infect it I know that I
remember that the stock market is not
the economy the stock market moves six
to nine months ahead of the economy the
stock market is a leading in
kate of the economy in other words the
stock market doesn't care what's
happening now the stock market only
cares what's happening nine months or
six months from now make sense now a lot
of people always think hey i will only
start to invest when the economy
recovers i will start to invest when the
epidemic is over the trouble is the
stock market will tend to rarely and go
to all-time highs way before the economy
recovers the market will start to move
up way before the pandemic is over
because the market moves ahead of the
economy so that's one thing good I
understand now again remember mine is
different my disclaimer I'm not saying
that this is the absolute bottom it
could be but again we could be off by
one or two months which means that could
we in fact let me just go back to the
charts on the Wheaties again could we in
fact for example could this be a
short-term rally or we could have big
cat bounce where you bounce to you know
maybe two six three zero there's a
strong resistance and we go back down
again yes that's that's impossible in
fact if it goes down again I'm looking
at it to go to probably the two thousand
level in other words the first bottom
was two thousand three hundred if we do
go down again we could possibly hit the
two thousand level okay and that would
represent from the top to the bottom a
minus forty percent
bear market drawdown which by the way if
you look at my chance again over here
you can see that the average of all bear
market draw downs was minus thirty six
percent but with a recession coming it
could be 42 percent so again is you know
plus minus five to six percent so the
important thing again is an investor is
even if you start buying over here don't
buy all in just buy a big average in the
market so you just buy a few shares
right just get average in every
few weeks so we do come back down again
to another low hit as good news you get
to buy more and a cheaper price you just
average more in again now it doesn't
matter if it goes down at a five to six
percent you know why because once the
bear market is over the bear market is
dead the next bull market will begin and
the next boom market I can guarantee you
will not go up a hundred percent he's
gonna go up two three four five six
hundred eight hundred percent like all
previous bull markets why really simply
because of the Federal Reserve this is
the election year and the Fed and tram
will do whatever it takes to pop the
market sky-high and they've got the
means to do it
remember the Federal Reserve can do
whatever it takes to palm the market up
the market is rigged is rigged to go up
what can effect do where the Fed cut
interest rates to zero they could go
even go to negative interest rates they
have launched unlimited quantitative
easing which means they're printing
money like there's no tomorrow
and with all this money what does the
Fed do they buy ballsy by Treasury bonds
but now they're buying corporate bonds
and the Fed has even said they're gonna
even resort to buying stocks symmetry
the Federal Reserve stops to buy stocks
nothing can stop them they can push the
market to all-time highs so what does it
mean when interest rates go to zero and
the Fed prints money it means in the
long run the value of the dollar will
keep going down which means if you hold
cash is gonna be trash alright in the
long run as you print money what's going
to happen is gonna lead to the rise of
asset prices that's why we call it
inflation so property prices are gonna
rise stock prices gonna rise in a lot so
in a long run investors will get rich in
richer people who save cash under their
pillow will get poorer and poorer and
all the more that's why have to learn
how to invest but again remember when
the bull market comes back not all
stocks will rebound stocks of companies
that have been badly damaged by the
crisis may never
other so avoid stocks whose earnings and
sales and competitive advantage have
been damaged by the crisis for example I
avoid energy companies oil and gas I'm
going to avoid them avoid Airlines avoid
you know semiconductors avoid those
stuff that are really competitive that
had been hurt by the economy I invest in
recession-proof
virus proof stocks like Microsoft which
is benefiting from you know cloud
computing the in fact cloud services
increased 700 percent during the
lockdown the more people stay in the
more deeply online games look at gaming
coming online gaming comes at $0.10 look
at my previous videos on current virus
proof stocks those are the stocks are
gonna rebound faster than any other stop
all right so I hope you learn something
new today's I don't go like I said I'm
not a fortune-teller I can't predict the
future for the last 21 26 years I've
been in the markets I've made my
fortunes calling market bottoms but I
don't call the exact bottom the exact
date I don't have to as long as I'm
around there plus minus 5 6 % plus minus
1 or 2 months I'm making enough money to
build my next fortune and so can you
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This video by Adam Khoo discusses strategies for identifying the bottom of a bear market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Khoo explains that timing the exact bottom of a market is nearly impossible and unnecessary; rather, the goal is to identify when the market is near the bottom to begin accumulating shares. He introduces two key indicators: the 52-week Williams %R (looking for readings below -80) and the normalized Average True Range (ATR) (looking for readings above 80). When these two indicators coincide, it provides a strong signal that the market is near a bottom. He reviews historical bear markets to demonstrate the reliability of this method and explains why he advises against going 'all in' at once, instead suggesting an average-in strategy. Finally, he discusses how market sentiment operates independently of short-term economic data, why he believes the market is rigged to rise due to Federal Reserve policies, and why it is important to invest in recession-proof, virus-proof stocks.
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