Has Market Bottomed? Are We Going For A Bull Run Now? | FA & TA Explained (Videos) | What I Plan To Do If There Is A Rally

The US market has experienced 3 consecutive days of gain since last Friday. With Alphabet’s fantastic earnings report and stock split, it is likely that the rally will continue for today (2 Feb 2022).

In this article, I wish to share 2 analysis from 2 of my favourite YouTubers, Tom Nash and Adam Khoo. They explained using Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis respectively on why the market is about to turn bullish again.

Fundamental Analysis (FA)

Tom has been warning his audience about the market correction since a couple of months ago and he was bearish and felt that market would be going down further but he changed his forecast after a certain observation: 3 Fed officials came out and said the same thing that they felt that they do not need to raise interest rates so many times this year.

Those statements, coupled with rising bond interest rate in the past 6 months (60%), led Tom to believe the Federal Reserves is going to “kick the can down the road” and raise interest rate at a later date. Also, when market rallies, the short sellers will need to cover their short positions and that cause prices to go up even more, leading to a bullish uptrend.

Tom however believe that the bull run will come to an end after 6 months and inflation woes will come back to haunt the market. It could be worse than raising the rates now.

Technical Analysis (TA)

Adam Khoo also believes that the market has bottomed out and will continue to rebound from here onwards, based on technical analysis. You can view the full analysis in the below video.

What I Plan To Do If There Is A Rally?

If the bull run is indeed coming and the market is going to rally from here onwards, I will first be taking profits on my LEAPS positions and clearing those that are expiring the soonest (see the blue circle).

With the funds available after selling my LEAPS postions, I will be allocating the funds into selling cash-secured PUT or covered CALL (Wheel Strategy). My ideal fund allocation between Wheel vs LEAPS is around 70% Wheel vs 30% LEAPS. My current allocation is 45% Wheel vs 55% LEAPS.

I intend to own 100 shares of all my favourite stocks, which includes Apple, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta (Facebook), to hold for the long run, while selling covered call on them or cash-secured puts if they get called away. The stocks that are already on my Wheel strategy are AMD, Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, BAC, Pinterest, Nio and Palantir.

Lastly, if I do have spare funds, I may buy LEAPS that are expiring in Jan 2024 and beyond, on my favourite companies that I have listed above. But with interest rate coming, I am taking a cautious approach and safeguarding my portfolio, just in the worst case the market stays sideway for more than 2 years. If that happens, all my LEAPS will become worthless and I will lose all my capital that I use to buy the LEAPS.

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