Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Daily Comment



Well, the market just kept going today... and it went pretty strong. Breadth measures were decent and took out recent highs. So muchfor divergences. Sometimes trends end on this sort of push... sort of a final 'all in', but I certainly can no longer claim divergences in key metrics. I think its all stupid and a bunch of 'career risk' managers buying the markets here... but they can do that for a while... certainly into quarter end. I can't imagine buying the market here, or even holding it. These valuation levels are just ridiculous. But this is what is going on... it must certainly be respected, but not feared. This is one hell of a shorting opportunity. SPX is almost on its 20 month average. Sentiment is euphoric that the recession is behind us and we will be back to peak earnings and peak margins. Does anyone realize how silly that is? Let me ask the bulls: what have we done to fix the problems that brought us 2007 and 2008? That is rhetorical of course; the answer is NOTHING. (which is really sad)

Here is one question: what are Tbill yields doing tanking like this?

SPX for today



Yesterday showed a pretty big volume day (relative only to recent rally) yet SPX was only able to advance less than .5%. Still declining participation in advance/decline ratio and up volume to down volume ratio.

On another note... the Russell 2000 futures are up 80% from their March lows. Wow. Now... which one would I want to be short?

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Just so you know where we are..

...and where we could be. I am not going to post all these charts but I will just tick them off. Remember, everything is insanely correlated right now and there is really only one trade. You are either on, off, or worse... short.

TD Signals:
Gold :Weekly and Daily TD Sequential Sell countdowns complete

Silver: Weekly TD Sequential Sell signal complete

Dollar Index: TD Buy Set Up perfected on Weekly chart; TD Buy Sequential countdown complete on daily chart, TD Combo on 12 bar.

Aussie Dollar: TD Combo Short on Weekly, Bar 8 of TD Sequential Sell countdown; TD Combo and Sequential Sell Signals complete on daily chart

Copper: TD Combo Short countdown complete on weekly AND daily charts

Swiss Franc: Weekly chart shows a perfected TD Sell Set up completed. Bar 9 was last week.

The vast majority of these charts are diverging from price with their Chaiken Osc... not to mention all the other cautionary signs I have posted recently. This whole trade may just keep going on and on and on... but a lot sure has a lot lined up against it right now.

TD Sell Signals







NDX Weekly is on a TD Combo Sell Signal as well (but very close to being stopped out). NDX weekly and R2K weekly charts also completed bar 9 of their respective TD Seel Set Ups last week as well.