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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

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five of the bear market the kovat 19

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pandemic bear market and we actually hit

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a law right here at the - 36 percent

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mark which is 36 percent below the

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all-time high of tree tree 9 tree on the

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S&P 500 since we hit the all-time low we

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have kind of like rarely up to this

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level over here where we still remain

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roughly about 20 roughly about 24

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percent below the all-time high so the

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question is have we seen the bottom and

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can start only go up from here

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let's export us in this video before I

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begin important disclaimer no one can

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predict the future and I'm not a

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fortune-teller I can't predict for

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certain all I can do is I can look at

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probabilities is it more probable that

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we have bought them and we are likely to

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go up or is it less probable and B some

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probabilities we can take intelligent

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investment decisions that's the first

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thing this of us disclaimer right the

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second thing is when we attempt to time

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the market bottom we can always time it

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to the exact day or minute or hour I

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love to but it's almost impossible

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unless you're lucky all the time but

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what I found is in the past I've been

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able to time the bottom of bear markets

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as close as possible but sometimes I'm

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off by about a month or two and I'm

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going to show you that it doesn't matter

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whether you're off by a month or two but

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as long as you are close enough to the

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bottom you can make great decisions to

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build your fortune once the bull market

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arrives alright so with that let me show

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you how I determine the probability that

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we have actually reached the bottom of

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this bear market what things I do is I

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look at matric of indicators and one of

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the most effective indicators I found in

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calling bottoms of bear markets our

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combination of two indicators the first

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indicator is the Williams our indicator

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and I'm using the 52 deep setting right

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so again I'm looking

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at the sp500 I'm looking at weekly

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candles they work best when weekly

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candles

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so why 52 on the Williams our indicator

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because 52 weeks is one year

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okay now the Williams our indicator was

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invented by Larry Williams one of the

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you know best traders in the world

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I respect him tremendously and he came

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out this indicator to tell when markets

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were overbought or when they are

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oversold all right so obviously we were

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looking for bottom we're looking for the

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Williams are indicated to be over Seoul

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so how do us all so so look at this

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indicator you can see that we've got an

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upper boundary which is the -20 boundary

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this dotted line over here and we've got

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the minus 80 boundary which is this

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dotted line over there and of course

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we've got all these squiggly lines so

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we're looking for this line to go below

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minus 80 so for example you see this

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year that's all below minus 80 so this

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tells you that the market is oversold on

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a 52 week time frame and when it's over

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Seoul it's like a rubber band stretching

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it down what's likely to happen that's

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right it's gonna bounce back up again

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but I found that just looking at this is

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not reliable why for example let's go

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back 20 years this was the year 2000 to

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2003 this was a bear market as you can

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see over there this was about two and a

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half year bear market now if you just

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look at the Williams are you would have

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gotten a buy signal over here right

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because it was below minus eighty if you

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bought over there guess what in went

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lower you got another buy signal bother

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when lower another by so you know it's

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not really good at you know picking the

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bottom because it gets over so but even

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more over Seoul so we can't just use

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that by itself so what I do as well is I

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look at this other indicator that tells

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me the average true range that has been

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normalized

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now what's average true

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average range refers to the range of the

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candles or the or the daily in this case

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the weekly volatility I don't know if

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you noticed that when the markets going

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down the closer it gets to the bottom

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the bigger the volatility the swings

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during the day of the week I if you

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notice for example about a week ago

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right when the market was like you know

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minus 36 percent of the all-time high

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the market was swinging you know seven

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percent one day seven percent of Nyx

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days so the Rangers were very very wide

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we call it really high range days where

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ATR exploded average true range exploded

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okay so this indicator tells us when the

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range is AB nominally abnormally big

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abnormally big alright that's right okay

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so you see this dotted line over here

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this orange dotted line okay that's the

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ad line so anytime the ATR is above 80

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the ranges are abnormal okay so when is

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it above 80 then there there can you see

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that okay great so we've got two

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indicators now we have got the we lips

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are and for rhythms are we are looking

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at it to be below minus 80 correct for

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the ATR monoeyes we're looking at it to

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be above 80 now here's the thing to call

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a market bottom both of them should show

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us their signal at the same time in

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other words we want to see that the

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Williams R is below minus 80 and the ATR

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normalized is above 80 when they both

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happen at the same time we are very

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close to a market bottom okay

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so let's go back 20 years and look at

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all the bear markets and see how

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reliable this indicator was again going

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back to the year 2000 that's when

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bear market started the dot-com bust

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right calm crash and you can see the

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market bottom here the market bottomed

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in mid of 2002 right now look at

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something interesting when the both

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indicators coincide that's right at that

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point can you see that the Williams are

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was below minus eighty over here but it

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wasn't a bottom signal because the ATR

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was not above eighty okay now over here

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check it out the Williams are went below

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minus 80 and the ATR went above 80 so we

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have got those two indicators coinciding

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and that called the market bottomed to

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the exact week all right so it once you

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get these two signals and you start to

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accumulate shares will you be pretty

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happy does make sense right pretty cool

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right now of course this could be a

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one-off fluke so we got to see did it

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work in other bear markets as well so

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what happened after that so after that

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bear market of 2000 or 2000 2002 the

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market then went on right market went on

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went on so where was the next bear

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market there we are so the next bear

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market was this boom okay and that was

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the financial crisis that started in

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October or seven and where did it bottom

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okay let's see wet bottom let's just

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move the yeah okay so it actually bottom

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here it bought them in February of oh

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nine so did our indicator work this time

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okay let me just zoom it in and you can

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take a look for yourself

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let's just stretch it a little bit over

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there okay so once again market bottomed

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was here February over nine

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so where did our indicator indicate the

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bottom all right

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so again you can see Williams are when

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below minus eighty starting from here

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and we know that it's not accurate

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because you thought they would have died

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as well right but you can see that at

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this point the ATR did not go above

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eighty okay now that the ATR went above

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eighty here but this wouldn't have been

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a buy why because the Williams are was

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not below minus eighty so they're not

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they are not coinciding they got a

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coincide got it

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all right so where do they start to

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coincide they started to coincide here

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at this point so there you have it we

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have got the Williams are below minus

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eighty and we have got the normalized

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eighty are above eighty so the market

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bottom was called actually here at this

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point right so if you started to

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accumulate shares and say okay that's

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the bottom over here and you started a

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cubic shares over there would you have

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caught the exact bottom no you wouldn't

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have because you went up a bit and came

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down again to make a second bottom can

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you see that so like I said this

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technique you can't call the exact

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bottom and the exact week at the exact

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day or hour you may be off by a month or

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two but question does it really matter

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it doesn't matter why because if you

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start up buying shares here what would

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have happened okay let's let's move our

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charts over there okay so if you started

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to buy shares over here yes it went

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lower slightly okay but within the next

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two months or so would you have been

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very happy yes you have caught the next

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bull market

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remember after every bear market is the

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next bull market and you can always

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catch the bottom you don't have to as

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long as you are near the bottom and this

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way I tell people that once this

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indicate that shows us where near the

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bottom please don't buy all in one day

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for goodness sakes you know just buy a

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bit first and it's average in

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so every week you just buy more buy more

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every week so even if you're off by one

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or two months it doesn't matter but you

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get in near the bottom instead of

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getting in here and getting this big

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crash you get in there and you're really

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happy got it okay when does the next

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bear market okay now this was not really

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a bear market well it was but it was a

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baby bear market like this one over here

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right so you can see that this was the a

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drop over here MA well it was a very

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small bear market and sure enough did we

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get the signal again yes we had we limbs

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are going below 80 - 80 sorry we had 80

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are going above 80 so we had that buy

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signal get over here so could have again

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bought over there so if you bought over

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them would you have been happy buying

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over here let's see well yep pretty

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happy okay because he's getting in over

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there you'd have again caught the next

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really strong bull market very very

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powerful right okay so let's move on

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when was the next bear market so again

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going to the right going to right and

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this was a bit of a sell-off not really

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a bear market now the next big bear

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market was actually there this was

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December 2018 the correct yes December

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of 2018 you can see that was minus 20%

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drop bear market and did we get a buy

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signal again yeah Williams are when

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below minus 88 er when above 80 yeah

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it's really small but it went just above

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80 over there check it out just above 80

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just touching it okay

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so that would have been a buy over there

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okay so would you have been happy buying

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over there let's check it out ready oh

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yeah pretty happy

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you have caught that Knicks bull and of

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course now we've got the Cobra 19 Black

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Swan they just hit us like a ton of

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bricks around again alright so again we

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can't predict when the next bear market

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will come but we kind of like can tell

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where we've hit bottom so one week ago

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again let me just zoom zoom this in a

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bit right

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I'm just make it bigger okay there we

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are okay so a week ago we plunge to the

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bottom here at 2000 tree on the S&P 500

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right like I said from the top to the

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bottom

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it was a 36% drop guess what

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Williams our when below minus 80 and 80

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our when up above 82 a crazy 120 so this

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signal a potential bottom of the market

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at 2300 points now coincidentally if you

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have watched my bear market survival die

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you would have remembered that in the

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last hundred years of 21 bear markets

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the average bear market as you can see

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average of all the bear markets was a

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drop of minus 36 percent coincidence

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I think yet I don't know maybe secure

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incidence maybe it's not right but

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that's something interesting interesting

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now the other thing I find interesting

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is that now let's zoom in a bit closer

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right I've been showing you the weekly

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charts now let me just zoom into the

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daily chance over here let's go to the

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daily charts alright so these are the

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daily charts you can see that big plunge

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all the way down again this is the minus

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20% level and this is the minus 30%

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level and again we reach the minus 36

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percent level over here okay so the

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moment we hit that level we started

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rallying all the way up right this was

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raised very strong rally now here's the

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intro

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same thing we did not rarely on good

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news we rarely on bad news in fact we

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read it on the worst possible

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economic news that we could have gotten

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in fact it was the worst news in the

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history of the US markets was the news

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the first major bad news that happened

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over here was that jobless claims was

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3.3 million and then just yesterday we

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had the news reporting that jobless

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claims was 6.6 million so imagine 6.6

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million Americans are out of a job now

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that's the worst economic news you could

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ever think of and guess what the market

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went up so what does it tell you see

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bear markets don't die from good news

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they die from bad news so once you see

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bad news coming out and the market no

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longer goes down it tells you that the

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market has already expected the worst

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case scenario and nothing more you say

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can get it to go down another thing the

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market is telling you is that everyone

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who has needed to sell of desperation or

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panic have already sold so there are

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hardly any more sellers left and those

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who have sold have so they're in cash

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right now which means a lot of cash in

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the sidelines which means that when a

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cash comes back that would drive the

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market higher now a lot of people be

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thinking and how can the market possibly

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go up from here how can it bottom the

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economy is gonna get worse more people

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are gonna get in fact that we're just at

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the beginning of the infection curve

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more people are gonna die in fact the

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number of deaths is only gonna peak

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somewhere in mid-april or mid-may

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more people are gonna lose their jobs

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now six point six million unemployed

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they are now looking at possibly twenty

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five percent unemployment rate in the

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next few months more people are gonna go

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out of business right yes I don't deny

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the fact that the economy is gonna get

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worse more people are gonna die more

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people are gonna infect it I know that I

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remember that the stock market is not

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the economy the stock market moves six

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to nine months ahead of the economy the

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stock market is a leading in

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kate of the economy in other words the

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stock market doesn't care what's

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happening now the stock market only

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cares what's happening nine months or

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six months from now make sense now a lot

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of people always think hey i will only

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start to invest when the economy

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recovers i will start to invest when the

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epidemic is over the trouble is the

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stock market will tend to rarely and go

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to all-time highs way before the economy

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recovers the market will start to move

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up way before the pandemic is over

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because the market moves ahead of the

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economy so that's one thing good I

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understand now again remember mine is

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different my disclaimer I'm not saying

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that this is the absolute bottom it

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could be but again we could be off by

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one or two months which means that could

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we in fact let me just go back to the

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charts on the Wheaties again could we in

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fact for example could this be a

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short-term rally or we could have big

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cat bounce where you bounce to you know

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maybe two six three zero there's a

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strong resistance and we go back down

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again yes that's that's impossible in

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fact if it goes down again I'm looking

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at it to go to probably the two thousand

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level in other words the first bottom

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was two thousand three hundred if we do

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go down again we could possibly hit the

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two thousand level okay and that would

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represent from the top to the bottom a

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minus forty percent

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bear market drawdown which by the way if

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you look at my chance again over here

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you can see that the average of all bear

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market draw downs was minus thirty six

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percent but with a recession coming it

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could be 42 percent so again is you know

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plus minus five to six percent so the

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important thing again is an investor is

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even if you start buying over here don't

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buy all in just buy a big average in the

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market so you just buy a few shares

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right just get average in every

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few weeks so we do come back down again

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to another low hit as good news you get

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to buy more and a cheaper price you just

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average more in again now it doesn't

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matter if it goes down at a five to six

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percent you know why because once the

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bear market is over the bear market is

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dead the next bull market will begin and

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the next boom market I can guarantee you

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will not go up a hundred percent he's

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gonna go up two three four five six

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hundred eight hundred percent like all

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previous bull markets why really simply

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because of the Federal Reserve this is

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the election year and the Fed and tram

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will do whatever it takes to pop the

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market sky-high and they've got the

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means to do it

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remember the Federal Reserve can do

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whatever it takes to palm the market up

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the market is rigged is rigged to go up

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what can effect do where the Fed cut

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interest rates to zero they could go

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even go to negative interest rates they

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have launched unlimited quantitative

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easing which means they're printing

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money like there's no tomorrow

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and with all this money what does the

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Fed do they buy ballsy by Treasury bonds

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but now they're buying corporate bonds

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and the Fed has even said they're gonna

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even resort to buying stocks symmetry

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the Federal Reserve stops to buy stocks

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nothing can stop them they can push the

21:24

market to all-time highs so what does it

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mean when interest rates go to zero and

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the Fed prints money it means in the

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long run the value of the dollar will

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keep going down which means if you hold

21:38

cash is gonna be trash alright in the

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long run as you print money what's going

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to happen is gonna lead to the rise of

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asset prices that's why we call it

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inflation so property prices are gonna

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rise stock prices gonna rise in a lot so

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in a long run investors will get rich in

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richer people who save cash under their

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pillow will get poorer and poorer and

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all the more that's why have to learn

22:02

how to invest but again remember when

22:05

the bull market comes back not all

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stocks will rebound stocks of companies

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that have been badly damaged by the

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crisis may never

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other so avoid stocks whose earnings and

22:20

sales and competitive advantage have

22:23

been damaged by the crisis for example I

22:25

avoid energy companies oil and gas I'm

22:28

going to avoid them avoid Airlines avoid

22:31

you know semiconductors avoid those

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stuff that are really competitive that

22:37

had been hurt by the economy I invest in

22:39

recession-proof

22:41

virus proof stocks like Microsoft which

22:45

is benefiting from you know cloud

22:47

computing the in fact cloud services

22:49

increased 700 percent during the

22:52

lockdown the more people stay in the

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more deeply online games look at gaming

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coming online gaming comes at $0.10 look

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at my previous videos on current virus

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proof stocks those are the stocks are

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gonna rebound faster than any other stop

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all right so I hope you learn something

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new today's I don't go like I said I'm

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not a fortune-teller I can't predict the

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future for the last 21 26 years I've

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been in the markets I've made my

23:20

fortunes calling market bottoms but I

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don't call the exact bottom the exact

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date I don't have to as long as I'm

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around there plus minus 5 6 % plus minus

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1 or 2 months I'm making enough money to

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build my next fortune and so can you

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Interactive Summary

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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