2021 Dow Crash More Violent Than 2020

 | Feb 19, 2021 03:15AM ET

This year’s crash will be more violent than 2020’s debacle, based on 2 technical observations that we may glean from the 3-year weekly Dow chart below.

  1. An expanding triangle connotes increasing volatility and danger. When such a triangle follows a bullish phase, point #5 is the lowest. In today’s case, a new low would take the Dow to a level below 18,000. Based on historic relationships, one may consider the 15,500 – 16,500 zone as the best guess for where the expanding triangle’s point-5 will land.
  2. To not clutter the chart with annotations, I have not included my Elliott Wave interpretation for the 2020 - 2021 period. Simply, last year’s low, which relates to the number 3 within the expanding triangle (see chart below), also marked Wave-A within and A-B-C decline. This interpretation suggests that the Wave-B peak is nearby.

Note: This is the most dangerous of all corrections, since Wave-B is allowed to exceed the preceding bull market’s Wave-5. The rule in Elliott is that, in such corrections, Wave-C should then be the fastest. This would suggest that this year’s decline will be even faster than what we saw in 2020, and greater in terms of points, once also considering the expanding triangle.

Finally, if the distance between points 1 and 3 will have been the same as points 3 and 5, the greatest crash of all times will be complete by - July 1, 2021.

There is no such rule regarding time periods being equidistant, however. I am simply embellishing for market timers who wish to leverage any get-rich-quick schemes.