The iBC Daily Update is a daily summary of the different breadth indicators I analyze to effectively time the market. A few of the indicators I created and are wholly proprietary, while others are common and widely available.

The market is akin to a living being, with a complex internal structure and many moving parts, all of which have their own job or function.  The individual movements of one group affect another, and like the body, all the individual functions come together to form the whole picture that most people look at each day.  Keep the biology analogy in the forefront of your mind, because it is the simplest way to explain the reasoning and motives of the iBC Machine.

If you look at the closing price each day, or examine a daily chart of the Dow for the last three months, you get a clear picture of what happened, and you might get a reasonable sense of what may come.  This is not unlike a patient telling his doctor about his medical history.  You, as the doctor, know he has high blood pressure and that there is heart disease in his family.  You have a clear picture of what happened (he told you), and you have a reasonable sense of what may come (possible heart disease).

This is where the analogy gets better.

You, in your professional estimation as a doctor, expect heart disease, but how do you nail the timing?

Has it already happened?

Twenty years?

No plaque at all?

The doctor, the market–it’s no different from anything else — timing is everything.

So, how do you get this critical timing down?  Just like the doctor, you are going to have to explore beneath the surface of what the patient told you and conduct some tests.

That’s what the iBC Machine does. It performs the tests necessary to diagnose the patient.