Archive for the ‘General Commentary’ Category
Monday, July 7th, 2008
From Yves Smith over at Naked Capitalism:
"Since I seldom am the bearer of upbeat news, I thought I'd pass along the cheery forecast from market strategists at Lehman and Deutsche Bank, namely, that the Standard & Poor's 500 index will have its best six months since the second half on ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Where to begin... The SPY Iron Condor was put out this month will a slightly bullish bias as it is our opinion that we are due for a bit of a correction to the upside. We have oversold readings across the broad markets and a classic triple bottom setup. Now, ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
With oil edging over closer to the elusive $150 price level, July crude settled a bit further away at $131.31 a barrel. A rebound in the U.S. dollar and weakening demand pressured crude prices down $3.04 in today’s session. According to the State Energy Department, crude demand is projected to ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
For all of you contrarians out there, check out this 1.50 CBOE Equity Put/Call Ration intraday! Reversal anyone?SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Case For The Bulls?", url: "http://www.indexoptiontrader.com/blog/2008/03/17/a-case-for-the-bulls/" });
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
With the recent lift, albeit possibly temporary, there is no doubt that the SPY is in fact forming a classic double bottom pattern. According to technical analysis, a double bottom is usually indicative of a lift, with the target price being at the distance between the top and bottom of ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
As many of you know, the major indices are at a pivotal, well...pivot. The SPY, IWM and others are in a position to retest the swing lows set in January 08. The SPY is set to retest the 127.50 levels, and the IWM at the 64.50 levels. We may see ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I may not be the first to say it, but I certainly won't be the last... it may be time to get long. Reference the image below:
While at first glance this chart looks intimidating, its not. The red and black area indicator is the NYSE Summation Index (A popular (or ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
It looks like we have reached an all time short interest level in the NYSE as of February 15. 14.4 Billion shares is the number of shares short on the NYSE, or 3.8% of the total shares outstanding. For those of you contrarian investors out there, this news should be ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Part 3 in the SPY Symmetrical Triangle series. It looked like the market was going to close down fairly substantially on Friday, until the news of a possible bond insurer bailout resulted in a rip roaring rally into the close. As a result, SPY is STILL trading inside of the ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
This is part of my previous post, commenting on the SPY symmetrical triangle setup. As one commenter duly noted, there hasn't been any really significant volume to confirm the direction going one way or another.
As you can see in the chart above (as of yesterdays close) SPY temporarily breached the ...
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