SPX: Because… REASONS!!
As a market manager I stay calm about it and use it to the best of my ability. As a human I get annoyed by it and what it does…
As a market manager I stay calm about it and use it to the best of my ability. As a human I get annoyed by it and what it does…
Here's the XLV weekly chart again. It's closer still to the top channel line. The daily view is kissing the SMA 200. I sold XLV but still hold my fair…
On a similar theme to the earlier update whereby the long bond is seeing extreme relative short interest by Commercial traders, let’s compare the 30 year vs. the 2 year.
The 30 year shows a big build up in net shorts by the Commercial Hedgers.
Because I want to look around as many corners as possible (without donning the tin foil hat), I had a thought that is at odds with the view that the bear phase will resume/continue. It is also at odds with a bullish view of gold for the near-term.
So please consider it a mental exercise, the likes of which can be healthy if we keep these things in perspective and in their proper place in the probabilities tool box.
Here is the multi-index weekly chart. Most are above former resistance but... where are higher highs? Show me higher highs, Jerry.
Here is the (weekly) Russell 2000 chart we used in 2015 to show that a moving average cross and a similar looking pattern have occurred that resulted in severe downside in 2008. I think we can disqualify the 2011 ‘comp’ because that moving average cross was quickly reversed and the current one, despite the big rally, is nowhere near being undone.