Plan in Action, BSX Edition

As an example of how I am going about this bubble, my main risk management tool is to make sure I am routinely taking profits in the ones that boom…

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A Humble Suggestion to @realDonaldTrump

The president did his latest stock market pompom tweet... Me... Have a good weekend. I've got some writing to do after a really interesting and really gainful week. I don't…

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SPX Q4 Top? I Was Wrong

I have been wrong on many things and I'll be wrong on more. It's part of being human, and the financial markets love to rub our noses in our pathetic…

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Still Watching the Semis and Market Leadership

We began our little exercise back in November, noting a dangerous MSM article pumping the views of a fund manager who promoted the great relative value the Semi Equipment stocks,…

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Semiconductor Bounce, On Cue

Well, if you could not tell by the VIX 'Micro Blips' theme noted in the previous post, the market is predictable enough. On Thursday we noted that Semi was due…

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Semi Bullish?

As an email from Bespoke entitled "Cyclical Indicators Soar" hits my inbox, I thought I'd update a cyclical indicator of another kind. You know, the friggin' cyclical indicator that preceded…

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NDX Bounce

[edit] I shorted the bounce. What the hell, worth a try. I am not so sure big tech will get off that easy, where are couple hard down days are…

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Quant Edges on SPX

If you know me you know that I am a chart guy, a psychology guy and an all too human guy. Well, there are other guys out there who are…

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Semi Equipment: Any Questions?

Back on November 21 I noted that MarketWatch was playing the usual mainstream media role of bringing people to the party way too late and indeed, endangering them. They put…

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GILD: Daily Chart Support

Though not positively aligned with a rising long-term interest rate environment, maybe BioPharma has anticipated the bump in yields and bottomed. We'll see. But one stock we've tracked in the…

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Taking 34% on QCOM

The goal was to buy the ridiculous washout on media hype and then sell fair value . A value was established at $70/share by Broadcom, with its takeover offer. I…

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NFTRH 474 Excerpt on Medical Devices

I've been posting a bit publicly about the sector so I may as well put the below excerpt up as well. Aside from the usual charts it was really just…

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