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A place for friends to gather and view stock market charts, discuss technical analysis and market outlook. What is your Principal Asset? How can it be developed? Each and all should do their own due dilligence and homework before investing. And by no means should you use anything I say or show here as a sole basis to buy or sell securities as everything is for educational experience only.

Friday, October 21, 2011

SPY


Pennant Break


Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Evil Speculator says it best on today's action


Today was an OUTSIDE DAY.
What does that mean? In the simplest terms whenever I see an outside day (or an outside bar of any length) I think
OUTSIDE DAY = LONGS GOT FUCKED AND SHORTS GOT FUCKED
Think about it. Both sides got whipsawed out of their positions. What that means for us is that we have NEW PARTICIPANTS in the market. A trader who took a position today has a different expectancy and tolerance for pain than a long term trend trader, or someone who got in at the lows last week.
The latecomer into the long trade (and the short trade) is by definition a weak hand.
Anything not going his way is going to make him jump to the other side. We have shot to new highs for the last 2 months. Rather than predict whether this is a breakout or a test and fail… lets be objective and let the market tell us how it likes (or hates) these lofty heights.
We have a valid sell signal on break of the daily low, fakeout sell. However statistically outside days are often followed by inside days, before a final breakout. You might consider holding your fire here. Also, statistically outside days most often occur 2-3 days before a market turn.
And statistically setups at the top of a flat bollinger band are higher reliability.
What does this mean? Get out of longs for now, be prepared to get short… and if the short opportunity which almost certainly happens here fails, get long again.
"Late in the session, U.S. stocks and other risk assets received a boost from a Guardian report that Germany and France have agreed to expand the Eurozone bailout fund from 440 billion euros to 2 trillion euros, citing EU diplomats."


Really?  How many frickin' times can they play the same card?  Oh, I see they played all five at once this time by increasing the previous amount by 5 times.  Uhh, wouldn't that indicate that the problem is 5 times bigger?  Let's see if it gets done?