CCMP’s Daddy, Cabot Corp.

Many years ago Cabot Microelectronics, itself surging on earnings today per the previous post, was spun off by Cabot Corp., an industrial materials and chemical company (and long time maker…

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Gold Stock Flags

Using the GDX and GDXJ daily charts, I thought I’d show some previous examples of bull flags so that now we can note potential bear flags.  This is of course all speculation because a pattern isn’t activated until it resolves, but for reference here is an update from June 28 in which we noted several potential bull flags, which went on to resolve as expected.

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NFTRH+; TIPS

Yet another + update that is really not so much a trade, but a macro idea.  Hence, sent to the entire list.

Since the acute bond hysteria a couple weeks ago US Treasury bonds have been easing (interest rates bouncing).  That has brought an opportunity for investors, portfolio balancers (that is me in this case) and traders to enter, or in the case of NFTRH+, re-enter TIP (TIP and TLT were highlighted several months ago as a bullish destination).

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Attn: Emailer ‘JCO’…

I responded to your email as follows, but it was kicked back to me as "550 host unknown" error.  I figure you will probably see this post so here is…

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NFTRH+; Emerging Markets

This ‘+’ update is sent to the entire subscriber base as it is a macro related subject that is reviewed each week in NFTRH.  FYI, another + update (on DBA) was posted (and emailed to opted in subscribers) earlier this morning.

We have been noting the potential Inverted Head & Shoulders on $MSEMF for many weeks now in NFTRH.  Using the EEM iShares, let’s dial it in.

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Semi Optimistic

[edit]  Subscriber Joe advises that Hickey says the b2b is a lagging indicator.  But I assume he means vs. Capex from the likes of Intel, etc.  I am using b2b…

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NFTRH; US Index Bounce Parameters

Since the market is up handily in ‘pre’, I wanted to get you a look at what it would take to negate the technical damage of the last 2 days, with very simple daily charts of the headline US indexes (plus the SOX).  This can be applied generally, to any index or stock for that matter.  As of now in pre-market, these items are still well below key resistance levels.

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SPY Short Covered

I just covered my largest position, which was a short on SPY held (and increased last week) for several months.  This joins leveraged index shorts that were covered on Friday. …

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Post-Brexit

Please pardon yet another Brexit article, which served as the opening segment to this week's Notes From the Rabbit Hole report, NFTRH 401.  From here on we focus on the…

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NFTRH 397 Segment, Thankfully Removed!

Note… We have a crisis on the home front this weekend as our dog has gone missing. He’s such a good boy but he suffers anxiety and when he hears…

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