WASSUPPP!!!!!

Today I will show the current trades I am in, the ones I just exited, and what I see coming.

Here is the SP 500 short trade I entered last week that I exited last night. I had originally been aiming for a target in the 1039 area, but when we just fell straight down for 4 days, I felt that a bounce was going to occur and did not want to sit through it. This is the single largest gain in a trade I have ever made, I had alot of contracts in my various accounts in this trade since the stop was so small. I never feel bad when I get a windfall like this even if it falls short of the target price. Had we been see sawing up and down with a downward bias I would have stayed with this, but there was a very short term buy signal that was there today if we took out Friday's high, so I decided to ring the register.

What I am looking for here is a small bounce for a day or two, then I will be looking for another short entry pattern. I do think we have some trouble brewing here. If you look at the moonshot that is going on in Bonds, that tells me the big players are out in front in flight to safety mode. As per usual, I could be wrong, but that is my current take. If we were to stabilize right here, and start to move up, then I would change my view. We can never know the future, but what we can always be sure of is what we will do when certain things happen. I think the higher probability is we continue down here after a brief pause. I am not going to go long just to try and catch a couple of days up against the trend here.

Here is the GOLD trade again which is creeping upward. There is one potential target in the 1240 area. I have not yet decided if I will exit there if we get there. There is some logic behind that number that I will not disclose here, and the rules are not met for that exit to be done today if we get there. I will need to re-evaluate tonight to determine if I will try to exit there or not on Tuesday. Just for the sake of discussion, it is one potential short term spot to take profits. This market has de-coupled from stocks to some degree recently, so it is hard to say how a up or down stock move might effect this market. Until recently they want almost tick for tick together.

That correlation is an anomaly, history shows no such consistent relationship. However, this has been a strange time, and as I have mentioned many times, you have to be aware of what is correlating nowdays to keep your risk in line.

This is my current trade in SUGAR. You can see we are in an uptrend and had a recent decent sized pullback, so I hopped on board when it started to move back up again. You can see via the red arrow where I waited for a little short term buying before I got on. This is something I have done for years. I do not like buying things when they are declining, that is going against momentum. There may be some people who can do that and make money, but I don't know any personally who do. You can see the target way above. Will we get there? I have no idea. However, I will manage this with a trailing stop along the way and see what happens. I doubt we will get there but you just never know.

Last but not least, below is my ETF trade that I did along side my short SP 500 trade, the SH. I love this because I can trade it in an IRA also, which I did as well as my regular stock account. This decline in individual stocks was tough to catch because of the odd pattern, but it was easy to catch in the SH. Trades on a short term basis don't get much better than this one folks.

That is all I have for today, and all the trades I am currently in. I was contemplating a long in the British Pound and Wheat today. The Pound I decided not to play, Wheat I am going to watch and see if it happens to trade up and pull back. It it does I may enter on a pullback.

AM I A TRAITOR?

I have been consistent in my view that GOLD is the biggest bubble in history, so how in the world could I be long?

First, that big picture view as I have explained repeatedly is just that, BIG PICTURE. Bubbles as we have seen can inflate for quite some time before they crash. Real Estate certainly showed us that. I was convinced there was a bubble there before I actually cashed in on my Newport Coast Mc Mansion. I exited that "trade" in 2005 but was convinced before then that a big bubble was at hand. There was still so much momentum going upward there in 2003 or so that it just seemed to be it would keep going for awhile, but there was not a doubt of what would eventually happen.

I see this as no different here at all, other than more people are sucked into a bogus story in GOLD. However, that does not mean I do not think short term opportunities to make money on the long side are no good. This above trade entered yesterday kind of matches up with the seasonal tendency in this market for a rally at this time of year. As a result once I got a shorter term pattern, I decided to go long. Is this trade any good? Who knows! My patterns that I look for were there so I took a shot. If this works out does it mean my bubble theory is wrong?

No, of course not. These are two completely different time frames. There is no reason at all from a big picture standpoint, to be short this market yet for the penultimate meltdown that is surely coming at some point. That type of trade should be done on a weekly chart on a break of major support levels, which is nowhere near happening right now. It is nothing more than idle chat at the moment. However, I do encourage people to do their own research as to what has caused GOLD to move in the past and what has not. What you will find is the reasons being put forth by the gold hucksters as to why it should continue into the stratosphere have never created a GOLD rally in the past. It may for the first time ever, who knows, but I maintain for that reason it is a bogus premise.

I always want to trade or invest on a valid premise, not an arcane idea of what might happen for the first time ever. Once again I apologize for Blogger, they have jumped the shark apparently. I am just not going to spend hours f.....ing around with HTML code to make this look like it used to.

NOT ALL ARE CREATED EQUAL

I mentioned yesterday that I bailed out of my Swiss Franc short due to it's relative strength against the EURO. You can see today that at least from a very short term perspective it was a good move. This is what I was looking at when making that decision. Going into the trade it was quite obvious the Swiss was the weaker chart pattern of the two, so I will not go into that explanation.

What is clear is that when the big break in the EURO occurred matched of course by a rally in the Dollar, the Swiss barely moved down. This was also accompanied by a big break in the stock index futures. All else being equal, the Swiss should have been down big, it was not. This was the first alarm bell. I was not planning on babysitting this trade intra-day until my first check spotted this condition. I then watched it for awhile live and as the Euro continued to decline, it did not budge. I think it was down about 45 ticks for the day, when the EURO was down 260 or so. It appeared to be there might be a buy the Swiss sell the EURO trade going on. This did not mean that it would not continue to go down, and also that is just complete conjecture on my part, so it was not something I could act on.

Next I went to my trading log and noticed in my notes that I had been really torn about shorting the currencies in general due to already being short the SP 500 and it basically being the same trade in terms of chart patterns. I had picked the Swiss also because it was in my mind the least correlated to the stock market in terms of chart pattern, hence it was a better non-correlated trade. Well I did get that part right, since everything else tumbled but this one. However, it also enabled it to defy gravity which was no good.

Also, you can look at the PROGO indicator in red and see how much more it was going down in the EURO than it was in the Swiss. When I weighed all of this together and also considered that we were still in a very big uptrend, I decided that I did not want to wait around and find out after a loss, that I had made a mistake. Net, I bailed out with a profit where indicated on the chart, and am not looking back. Today prices are much higher than where I got out, but it does not really matter, I am done with this market for a couple of days. Now it appears the other currencies are much better candidates for shorting if we get a bounce.

I always have subscribed to selling the weak and buying the strong. Before I found out that it was the right thing to do, it always made logical sense to me. It works "most" of the time, but in this case it did not. Nothing that I know of works every time in anything in life, this is no different. In trading so many well reasoned decisions turn out to be wrong, it is the ultimate self confidence game. It is often hard to have that constant confidence when a series of decisions turn out to be lousy. This is one of the reasons why so many people do not succeed in this business.

At times I question decisions I make also, especially during losing streaks, but I know that if I keep grinding it out eventually I will make some good ones. I have always managed to do in the past.

CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL

Yesterday was a tough day for me in all honesty. I shorted the two markets I mentioned then sat back and watched huge open profits turn into losses. Such is the life of a trader. It hit me particulary hard yesterday probably because my trading has not been good during the transition I told everyone in here I am making. I have seen this happen so many times. However, we cannot impose our own "conditions" on the markets. They are going to do what they will regardless of what we as individuals want them to do. Watching the very short term swings is difficult emotionally, there is no real answer other than to get over it. However, at times it can be stressful which is why this business is so difficult.

As I listened to CNBC this morning and the dialogue of how to explain how the market was getting hit so hard overnight, I had to laugh once again. The explanation was that it was a reaction to the FOMC minutes. How could that be they were released yesterday and a clear rally followed, messing up my shorts literally! Now we are being told the reaction is today, well which is it? Of course there is an explanation that nobody would dare bring up. Perhaps the Fed released their talk to "come clean" then bought futures right on the news to stop what should have been a decline. If this were true, this could be the real reaction to it and not the governments manipulation of the reaction. Of course if they really were to come clean they would completely open their books to reveal all the futures trades they have made, but that will never happen. I do think some day when history is written about what the government did in this crisis it will come out that they bought futures markets heavily to slow things down. It could be decades though before that comes out, but it will.

Of course we will never know which is correct and it really does not matter. When yesterdays lows went today, after that late reversal yesterday, that was a sign of weakness. Whether or not it was done from the above scenario, or some other one is irrelevant. When you get days like that with the late day saves, where the lows go the next day, it is a sell signal. Now we have had basically 3 short term sell signals in 2 days, so the short side is the right side to play here.

I thought I was in business in my Swiss trade when I saw the EURO collapse overnight, but it barely moved. This to me is a sign of relative strength so I exited that trade with a small profit a few minutes ago. With the EURO down 260 and it down only 45 something was amiss, and I was not going to sit around to find out what. It is a trade against a big uptrend, so hopefully we get a bounce to setup another entry. I do think we are on the verge of a good move down in currencies, up in the DX and down in stocks.

THE WAIT IS OVER

I finally got short the SP500 this morning, along with a couple of stocks. Unfortunately alot of the stocks I wanted to short gapped through the entry points and I don't chase gaps except with rare exceptions in stocks. This is the world we live in, you need to be a vampire basically, everything happens overnight. It is also why it is imperative to have those orders in for the overnight sessions as I reviewed the other day.

I will go on record as saying this is not an optimal trade setup, but it is good enough to take a shot. You can see how the recent trend above was not confirmed by an increasing ADX which is a very good trend measuring indicator. We got a trendline break as indicated on the chart, but I actually shorted above that below the low of yesterdays inside bar. Either way if someone waited for the trendline break to occur, that is still a valid entry.

Will we go down, who knows? The longer I do this the more I come to realize that all you do is throw out probes when you trade anyway. We try and stack the deck for our probes, but in the end each trade is really a 50/50 bet for it's outcome. I played golf with a retired guy at my club the other day who was in shock when I told him I was a trader. His quote was classic. "You win some and you lose some I guess." So true my new friend!

I have mentioned over and over the tight market correlations that are in place particularly in the currencies. I have been wanting to short one of them also, but also realize it is basically the same trade as shorting stocks. As a result I tried to find the weakest one. That is probably the Canadian Dollar overall, but in terms of recent chart patterns, I figured it was the Swiss Franc, so this is where I played. The chart is below.

The EURO is actually down more today, but I just judged that the chart pattern was stronger there in the near term. They should more or less trade together anyway. The one thing I liked about this was again the ADX not confirming the price trend strength. The EURO had the opposite, with the ADX skyrocketing. Time will tell if this was the right call or not.

Gold was also a marginal short setup but I have to admit that I did not take that trade. I have a close friend who avoids trading on days like this due to the report coming out later. I have always believed that you take the trades when they come up and let them play out. We spend some much time researching bar charts, how would we ever know when we look at one in the past that worked out the way we thought, whether or not there was a report on that day or not. I think reports are just part of the market, and you place the trades without regard to them.

Maybe I will get stopped out due to it, but I would argue that would have happened anyway for some other reason if it was not for that. Sometimes we just outsmart ourselves in this business. Maybe it will come out in a way that makes the trade better, we just never know. The one exception to that is non-farm payrolls. I do not avoid them but use stop limits often if entering a trade on those days just in case we get on of those wild reactions which happen a couple of times a year.

That is all for today, good trading to everyone.

WAITING PATIENTLY

Trading more often than not is a waiting game, and that is what I am doing at the moment. As you can see we have divergences galore right now in the SP 500 daily chart. Both the accumulation/distribution indicators have it as well as the Larry Williams proprietary oscillator. The daily bar pattern still shows higher lows and higher highs, so there is no reason to run out and short this for nothing. However we are into weekly resistance up here, so when I combine that with what this shows, I am chomping at the bit to get short here in both the indexes and individual stocks as well.

Often when we get situations like this we get an explosive move. It could also be upward, there is a tightening of the price action going on, and the VIX is just crawling sideways right here. What this all tells me is that a breakout is coming. I am looking downward due to what is above, and will not go long if it breaks out upwardly. I will just move on to something else. In our new world where all markets are the same, we have similar sell setups in alot of places most notably the currencies. They also though are in strong short term uptrends, so no reason to just stand in front of them either.

The following is a weekly chart where you can see how we have rallied into the sell zone. Will we stop here, nobody knows, but I am prepared to take action aggressively if we do.

On a seperate note I noticed something very disturbing that I need to mention. Occasionally I take a cursory glance at who is visiting my blog just to get a general feel for where in the world readers come from, and even it if is worth continuing this. This is especially true now with the demise of blogger, in that I cannot put out the quality of product I wish to. I am hesitant to keep doing it just for the lessor quality aspect of it now without even considering these other issues. Typically the stats are about the same, and there are readers from all over the world which I think is cool.

However, I noticed one day where there was by far the most page loads of any that I have ever had. There is only one explanation for that, big brother is checking in. Readers here are aware that I bash Barry constantly. We also know that his administration is really trying to implement a fascist type of regime, where all dissenting opinions are squelched. As much as it angers me to no end that they are doing this, it will also cause me to stop this if it continues. I do not make a single penny off this, so I am not going to risk getting into a lawsuit from something that is not a money maker.

We know they are just ignoring all the laws and just trying to dramatically change our country permanently. I just hope that someone very wealthy and it would have to be a billionaire who could shield his assets completely from them, decides to finally take them on. Maybe they purposely avoid doing things with a few people that have to firepower to fight them I do not know. I find it interesting that they have not gone after Sean Hannity, but he has millions of fans, millions of dollars and FOX news behind him. I think if that were not the case they would be doing something to try and shut him up.

What I do know is that one reader loaded literally evey single post I have ever done, and that is not what a casual reader would do. If by chance this blog is just gone one day without notice you will know what happened.

LEARN FROM MY PAIN: MY BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER

I debated whether to even post this because it may take away credibility. However, my main credibility is that I tell the truth. The above chart shows the single biggest loss I have ever taken since I began trading, and it just happened. One of the problems I always have is it seemingly takes me forever and alot of pain, when I try to implement something new that I have learned. When I mentioned awhile ago that I was trying to change my trading style somewhat I never drreamed I would put myself through what I have the last couple of months. It has been brutal.

One of the trades that has absolutely killed me over the years, is these two point divergence trades. I learned a new way to do them recently, so I thought I would try one live. I should have known better, but apparently I did not. However, it should have been just one stupid trade that I never should have done, it was not.

I took my normal risk level of 2% on this trade just like I always do. However, what happened is that I was filled overnight on my short, then the market had a monster reversal back up and I had no stop in for the exit. By the time the pit opening occurred, they gapped it up even more and I puked out at the market having doubled my 2% loss, making it 4%. Now most people would not think that is such a tragedy. For me, I have never lost 4% in one trade ever, and don't want to ever do it again. Yes this was an awful trade, one I will never try again no matter who shows me what on how to do these. The mistake I made was not placing stop orders that were linked to the fill of the original.

Most trading platforms allow this to be done nowadays, PFG has a great one, TradeStations is very complicated but still can be done. What I would suggest to everyone trading now with these huge overnight moves that we see on a daily basis is to make sure when you place orders, you also have your exit orders linked to them. I have never had this happen where I was filled overnight and then had the market reverse so sharply that it went through my exit price on the other side. However, all it takes is once. This cost me an extra $12,000 so that is certainly enough to drive the point home with me.

Hopefully those who read these will learn something from this. The other thing I learned is how many breakable items I still have at home. The good news is there are not many left now!! I have never been as pissed off about a trade as I am over this one. The good news is that I will never forget this mistake as long as I live and hopefully this will help someone else avoid the same fate.

Have a nice weekend

YAWN

There is not alot happening right at the moment. I just heard our fearless leader taking more shots at W on TV. This guy is just a disgrace there is no other word for him. He is kinda like the kid who you beat over and over again, yet continues to run his mouth and make excuses about how you did not really beat him. This just shows how bored I am that I would even listen to this dumb ass even for a second.

The above SP 500 chart continues to be in the same spot. We have alot of divergence going against this current move yet the trend is still up. I am itching to short this but don't have anything yet. I do have sell orders under Mondays low in the NAZ in case we get down there. However, until we do I am going to sit and be patient. I am of the opinion that a big down leg is coming here but in case the PPT can keep it propped up longer, I am not just going in at the market. The NAZ is a bit weaker than the ES so that is why my orders are there, but it is basically the same trade.

I have mentioned BONDS in here recently. I am looking for a sell signal there also and have been for awhile. The main reason is the divergence in the accumulation distribution indicators from Larry Williams that I watch. They are displayed on the chart below.

These lines are way underperforming where price is which is telling us of underlying weakness here. I have some orders in today that I doubt will be filled below where we are currently trading. I have had this several times recently and not been filled due to equity strength. This is the safe haven spot, so if we do roll over in stocks this market will likely remain strong. Maybe this is telling up we are going to continue up in stocks?

The Blogger problems have adversely effected the quality of what I put out here but there is just nothing I can do about it until they fix their problems. That is all for now, good trading to everyone.

ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE!

This morning we have another across the board liftoff taking place. If it were not simply impossible for the government to be behind these correlations I would swear they were. It is too much for them to undertake even in a F you I won adminstration slogan world. Literally everything in the world is up along with stocks this morning, and until this changes, I suggest all trades be filtered with stock market direction. I have mentioned this in the past, and it amazingly still holds true. There was a recent period a couple of months ago where some decoupling began to occur, but things have fallen back into line again.

I think there are two reasons for this. First, alot of the true problems are being masked by the artificial propping up of the markets by the futures buy programs the US Government is behind. It is keeping stocks high, and optimisim from falling off a cliff. Second, I think the big power in the hedge fund world has their models dialed in to these correlations, so when stocks go buy orders fly in from everywhere in all commodities markets. As a result, when one goes so do all the others. The only thing you can do is take it into account when determining position sizes. Just remember, buying crude is the same as buying stocks, which is also the same as buying soybeans etc.. They are all the same trade. If you are long 4 different markets and risking 2% on each, you are really risking 8% in one trade. They are all the same.

Next I have the seasonal pattern for stocks which shows a rally here for a few more weeks, then sharply down. I do still feel this is a house of cards and as you can see from the chart above, some of the things I use to measure trend strength are not on board with this at this point. They are in fact lagging quite a bit, which is a huge caution flag for me. Notice how the Larry Williams proprietary oscillator has a much lower peak than price and is not even moving up on a day where we are up 175 Dow points as I type this. This is very unusual, but has me looking for shorts not longs.

I think it is interesting to see how closely we have followed the seasonal patterns this year, almost exactly to the day it seems. This would indicate a couple more weeks up, then down into the fall buy zone. Seasonals are not always this accurate, but when we are tracking them the way we are this year, you have to be aware of them. Until we veer off course, I expect we will follow this. I am sure another email about Dow 4000 by the end of the year has arrived from Bob Prechter while I am composing this, but I do not think we are going to see that. Things are looking good for the fall rally I think at this point. We may have a sharp decline into it, which if it occurs will make it that much better.

I am being told that the charts cannot be enlarged anymore and I apologize if that is true. Blogger jumped the shark a few weeks ago, and there is nothing I can do about it until they fix the problems. There is nobody I can call, customer service etc..

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE JUST TELL SOMEONE THE TRUTH FOR ONCE?

Here is an intraday chart of the Bond market today. This market does not rise like this when everything is fine. After watching our favorite talk show host's highlights on the Yenta show yesterday it occurred to me that he is just incapable of telling the truth about anything. Then I followed that with a conversation on the phone with Emigrant Direct Mastercard. I had some fraudulent charges put on a credit card and have faxed in a form to clear them more than a dozen times to different numbers they gave me. I have a copy of the transmittals on my end showing each and every one was recieved. They claim they have never gotten any of them. Of course they are lying, of that there is no doubt. They just don't want to eat the charges.

I have a plan for them, kind of like Barry's F You I won. I give people a chance to tell the truth, then when they don't, I force them to. I have a big bill with these folks that will now not be paid until they fess up to the game they are playing. The beauty of it is they have already lost by what they have done. I spend over 100k per year on that card, and I have already gone to another one, so I doubt they have an abundance of clients that spend that much on their card and now they have one less.

Message, punish the liars in November.

As we get back to the chart above, I just have an overwhelming fear in me that a big downwave is at some point coming and I think the Bond Markets continued strength is telling us all is not well. I do not know when, but I think between now and the fall we are going to have a good sized decline. Larry Williams showed us many cyclical things that indicate a good buying spot coming in early October, so maybe we will decline sharply into that time frame setting up the buy point.

One market that I have been hoping to sell but it just keeps climbing is the EURO. You can see the divergences that are setting up here but we have what I call a running market. This is a market that has small ranges and just keeps creeping along with no pullbacks. These are very difficult situations to trade, and can be deadly to fade. So far nothing is there but I am watching this closely for a short opportunity.

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER

I have been tied up in all sorts of other things here in the last couple of weeks so I have missed alot of posts. When I combine that with the demise of Blogger that I have mentioned, I just dread doing these right now. I just don't have the time.

Here we have the SP 500 which is in an interesting spot. The trend oscillators are showing an uptrend and a pullback, yet we are also into a good resistance zone. There is a school of probability distribution called market profile that tracks how often markets trade at certain prices. Once something trades in a zone alot it tends to have a comfort in that zone, hence it can stay there for awhile. It is not a good probability in an often frequented zone to take trades because false breakouts can often happen. That seems to be the case here. I was long for the 3 day upmove, exiting Monday once we got into this highly visited zone.

As much as I am tempted to look at continuation longs right here on this pullback, I am just not sure at this point about doing so.

I have been looking for a long position in the Dollar as it continues to tumble.

Alot of oscillators are diverging against the trend which as I have written about often in the past, is typical. However, when I see it get this pronounced I look for counter trend trades so that is what I am doing here. I have had orders in to buy strength the last 3 days and none of them have been filled. I will continue to look for longs here as long as this divergence persists. If I lose I lose. We often get huge reversals from these types of situations, so that is what I am looking for here.

BACK IN THE SADDLE

The Larry Williams seminar offerred some good new twists and augmentations to some of the things he has taught in the past. It is possible that I may take trades going forward that I display in here and not be able to disclose all the reasons for doing so. As a reader of the blog you will just have to accept that. He is very protective of his material and rightfully so. He is constantly fighting battles of trying to stop people for illegally distributing what he creates. I cannot for the life of me figure out why people do such things when they steal from others, but it is what it is.

The long entry in the NAZ is still moving along in my direction today so far. You can see where I have the exit target above. Does this mean I think we will stop there? No. It is based on predetermined targets that many of Larry Williams students are familiar with. That target interestingly enough is right into what I consider weekly resistance to be, so that makes me like exiting there that much more. The momentum oscillator is not indicating any waning momentum at this point, so there is no reason to believe we will stop right on a dime if we get into the weekly sell zones. I will look at how things look if and when we get there.

Here is a weekly chart which as always shows a different story entirely. One of the things that was discussed very briefly at the seminar this past weekend, was using weekly setups for daily entries. The following is my take and not what was discussed at the seminar. This is a difficult task to undertake. First you typically have two different looks entirely, and your mind can easily get clowded on the conflicting signals. Second, trading off weekly makes for much larger stops, hence less size. We all want to have max size on with good trades and minimum size with losses don't we?

I used to spend a ton of time analyzing weekly setups, I do not do that as much anymore for the very reason I just stated. When I look at the weekly setups I look at them less for chart patterns and more from a fundamental perspective. This may or may not give me an advantage in finding larger moves. I do not track it to see, but it gives me a comfort zone mentally to know that I am playing in the direction that things from a larger persective "should move." Let's face it life is a judgement call and so is trading. Maybe I will have a change of heart at some point in the future on this, but for now that is how I do it.

As it relates to what we have at hand, I think it is prudent to be aware that we have broken weekly uptrends and changed to down. As a result there should be a sell the rally trade, and it should make more than the counter trend buys going on right now when they trigger. I view it as a downwind par 5 that you wait for when playing golf. It is just money out there waiting to be earned.

Too bad it is not quite that easy but you get the drift.

COMMON GOUND BARRY AND BLOGGER?

Readers of this blog are clearly aware of the issues Blogger has had recently that have hampered my abilities to make the product as good as I would like.

First, the old editor which is awful being the only usable one at the moment, and second the change of the design template which does not allow you to go back to the old one.

In the face of all that they send out a massive email to everyone telling us how great everything is with them and all the new features they have introduced. Huh?

This makes me wonder if Barry's thugs are not running this also and just lying about yet another problematic situation?

One political thought before getting to it, anyone pondering why Blago would all of the sudden go quiet out of the blue? He chose prison over death is my opinion, no way Barry wanted to be on that stand. With all the bad things they have done is there any reason at all to believe he might be innocent of what Blago had accused he and dead fish of?

Yesterday I mentioned my orders had been triggerred on the long side of the stock indexes, below is a chart of the NAZ which is the one I played.

You can see that once again this is not a perfect trade, they never are. The trend oscillators are going up, yet the longer term momentum measure at the bottom is entering the flat line sell zone. We do have one of the 2 accumulation/distribution indicators racing ahead of price, which should mean some more short term momentum upward. The bottom graph may be telling is that this is not going far, time will tell.

One of the challenges of Caddyshack trading is that you have to some how find a base to make decisions from. If you always require everything to be "perfect" you will never make a trade. You have to establish general parameters for what you are looking for. This fits the bill for that plan. Often at the first test the long term momentum will not be confirming a trend change, so I have to take a leap of faith to a degree on these trades. After all trading is nothing more than a series of stabs at things. We have to hope that more work than do not, and that we manage our money properly. Beyond that, there is no way to attain perfection that I know of.

Wasn't it curious how yesterday when bad economic news came out we had that big rally. It was also interesting that it happened when Bernanke went on record saying they would do whatever it takes! He should have just said including buying futures when we need to in order to keep the stock market up. I would release the balloons if he finally fessed up, but he basically did in that statement. He is probably laying the ground work for what is cleary going to come out at some point. There are just too many people that know about it and write about it now for it to stay quiet for much longer.

I am traveling today and over the weekend, so there will not be a Saturday post. Larry Williams is doing another seminar that I am attending. He was not going to do any more until he recently changed his mind. It is a can't miss for me especially since he limited it to a one time shot with a select group of students.

It appears to me we are still on track for a sell this rally against weekly resistance above here in the next few days but I will have to observe how we trade before determining that.

LESS IS MORE

Just to apologize, blogger will not let me put spaces in between paragraphs today so I am sorry this is just one big narrative. I hope Blogger has not jumped the shark, it sure has been a great tool up until recently.

One thing I have never been able to figure out is that when I go through periods with technical problems or travel, and miss a day here and there of new posts, I get the most traffic to the blog. I guess that means that people get tired of hearing me pound Barry? I had the biggest one day traffic I have ever had in my blog the other day on a day I did not have a new post up due to technical difficulties with Genesis. I am not sure how to take it but I guess with a thick skin!

Above is the chart of the VIX. Regular readers of this blog know that I think this is the single best tool to pick swings in the SP500. It has it's shortcomings just like anything else, but overall it is very good. Unfortunately right here it is giving conflicting information. The trend of the VIX itself is up, yet the trend oscillators are both pointing down. This kind of mirrors what the SP500 chart itself is telling me, so as a result, I just don't see a trade there at the moment. It does appear to me that we are on the verge of this dip now not being a buy, but I just cannot tell yet.

When I am unsure I do nothing, so that is the plan in this market here. We do seem to be getting a good lift off in alot of other markets today so that may be a sign that we are going to hold here, but I just don't know plain and simple.

One other thing that I have noticed which I think is a bit unusual, is the very high correlation between individual stocks and the indexes. You might say, what a dumb ass of course. In reality this is rarely true to the degree it is right now. Often stocks trade on their own fundamentals and are often influenced by the indexes, but not to the degree that they are right now. I think the reason for this is simple. The last hope for somehow kicking this can down the road a bit more, is the stock market. There are so many problems outside of it, that it is the last man standing. The government has manipulated the indexes to elevate the markets so this is what you get. Now all the charts look the same.

I suggest you keep this in mind when trading stocks and determining risk. Do not get aggressively long or short unless you think the indexes are going in the same direction.

THIS IS INTERESTING

This weekend as I went through all the SP 500 stocks I did not find a single one with my primary sell signal in place.

I am having some technical difficulties with Genesis once again today with data. As a result I cannot post any charts. My plan in stocks is to look for buys in this pullback to the lows. There are quite a few in place right here. Today's small range reversal bar up does not give a buy signal in the indexes, so I am unsure whether this dip is a buy. What I had been hoping for was a short term rally off this dip, which would move into the weekly sell zone. Then I would get more aggressive on the short side from higher levels.

Hopefully I can get back to normal posting in the morning.

THE PICTURE BELOW IS SELF EXPLANATORY

As you can see everything is down on the weekly SP 500 chart. I do sense a big drop is coming, maybe yesterday started it I don't know. The daily chart still shows a buy on this dip at the moment. However, if we just continue to decline straight down, it will negate the daily uptrend in the trend oscillators. I do think there has to be some type of catalyst if we are going to get one of these mega drops like some people are calling for. As is always the case, I have no idea what that might be. It is not likely to be an economic story since most of those stories are already terribly negative and we have not broken down sharply yet. Maybe this means there will not be one and as a result, we will not have a huge breakdown. For now, the weekly chart is down, so it is sell the rallies here until this changes. Maybe the daily chart will generate a buy entry that will take us into a sell on the weekly.

The dollar has now by my definition entered a weekly downtrend. We have a gap below the lines as I have talked about before. This means sell rallies when this develops.

Looking at his chart you can see both trend oscillators are down along with the price move, leading the way here. Things do not look good here to me. Stocks and the dollar are moving together. Since this has been the historic relationship it tells me that not much market manipulation by the PPT is currently happening. They have created alot of unusual bed partners the last couple of years with their tinkering. We have to expect them to show up again, but you have to wonder how much ammo they have left. The Larry Williams forecast shows more down here for the next few months. Since it is right on track with this market, that is what I am expecting as well. I see no current reason to be bullish here other than maybe on oversold bounce which we probably will get soon.





The last chart to look at is Copper which looks ready to take a tumble to me.










The longer term trend oscillator is down, the shorter term one is rolling over, and we have a gap in place from a few weeks back. I will be looking to sell rallies here if we get them.



Good trading to everyone.

DO WHAT A SAY NOT WHAT I DO

I thought of this topic as I listened to a fat person with a terrible physique talk about how children need to eat better and lose weight. Of course as I looked at the first lady with that huge ass and legs saying this, it was so reminiscent of a problem in our world. There are experts all over the place telling you/coaching you, for a fee, on how to do something they themselves cannot do. Maybe she should start with herself first, if I looked like her I would hide in a weight watchers program not bark at people about how they should eat better. Why in the world would anyone fall for this? At age 50 I have 8% bodyfat or less, and ripped abs. I am qualified to tell people how to get fit, I have accomplished it. When I seek advice on any topic, I want someone who has done what I am trying to accomplish. How could someone who hasn't done what I am trying to do, possibly guide me to a place they cannot get to?

How is this relevant? I show actual trades I do with real money on this blog. The above trade is the GOLD trade I entered on the short side this morning. You can see at the red arrow where the order was filled. I talk alot about GOLD here for a couple of reasons. First, it has become such a hot topic due to hype from people like Peter Schiff as well as prominent economists. Second, because I see trading opportunities here to make quite a bit of money. Volatility is what we want as traders, the direction does not matter. When you get a market that is being moved by speculators and not fundamentals, there are big swings that can be played.

To relate this back to the subject of today, I commit actual money in real time to my comments here. I am not a paper champion. At times I might make very opinionated remarks, so be it. I state what my research tells me, I do not care if it matches consensus or not. The "consensus" won't reimburse me if their views are wrong for the money I lose by following them. I always suggest that people be careful about listening to ecnomists. If they could trade they would be traders, they would make alot more money. These folks are just classroom geeks who have read about what should be. They have never hit a ball out of the infield. They will not make you wealthy.

Do your own research and make your own decisions. I do that and would have it no other way. I will give you an example of one of the best things I ever did that actually cost me money. I was attending a Larry Williams seminar in Rancho Santa Fe many years ago. He of course is someone I look up to a great deal, and have a good relationship with at this point. Back at that time I barely new him. He was teaching a bond trading system, and actually trading a million dollars live with his own money with that system. He entered a short trade during the seminar. At the time I was long due to what my own system was telling me. I stuck with my trade, which was against Larry's. His wound up being correct, and mine was wrong and I lost on it.

What I told him afterward was that one of the most important things I learned that day was that you have to be disciplined and stick to what you know to do regardless of what anyone else might tell you. I to this day am about as good as anyone at doing that. I trade based on my own tools and really don't care what anyone else is doing. It does not always result in every trade being great. However, how do you reconcile in your mind a loss that you took based on what someone else told you instead of what you yourself decided to do?

I throw out what I do in here as food for thought. I do not think anyone should blindly take a trade just because I am in it or I say to take it. Put together your own plan based on what people that have had success tell you. Make it your own. If you want to trade just based on someone else's ideas alone, give them your money and let them manage it.

Within the realm of that advice, the opposite extreme is something you also should not do. I had lunch with a friend yesterday who trades. He had just returned from a very intense two day seminar hosted by a top trader. His goal is to try and catch larger moves. He tends to be very jumpy and trade almost in a random fashion. He loses money consistently. In spite of all my attempts to get him out of this, he does not change. He is a swashbuckler. I asked him to give me a general overview of what he learned. As he is doing so, he shows me one example after another and at one point he says the following. "I don't care what anybody tells me, if the low of this bar goes I'm gone." He was referring a where he would have a stop loss, and it was completely contradictory to what he had just learned from a master. He said "I know if this low goes the price will go down." My reply was to ask him if he had researched that particular pattern and knew the statistics on it. The answer was of course no.

Next I went on to state that if you are losing money doing what you are doing and you just spent alot of time and effort in an attempt to change that, why are you interjecting your own arbitrary opinions based on no research and overriding the pro? He also has no money management system whatsoever. He trades the dollars, not the logic. I have tried to get him to be more organized with money management and have not been able to. At the seminar, the instructor told him his biggest problem was money management!

The moral of the story of all of this is as follows. Find some people who have actually traded and made money to learn from. Next take what you learn from them and blend it into your own style. Stick with what you know. No matter how good you are there are periods where you will lose money. I just had one last month. They are not easy to deal with, but they are a reality of this business. You have to understand the parameters, be organized, be disciplined and be persistent. This it not an easy busines, it is difficult. However, you can be successful if you stick to it and operate with prudence.

ANTI BARRY TRADE CONTINUING

The chart above shows the exit from my Dollar short trade, price hit my target this morning. As I watch other currencies soaring and the Dollar getting clobberred, it is clear the "Barry is a lost cause" trade the other countries are making is carrying on nicely. We all know he is an idiot, but it is another thing to find an opportunity where something has a direct correlation to something he did, and also that we can act upon it. This was one of those "teachable moments." How ironic that this is one of his arrogant phrases, yet the best use of it is to bet against the US when he does something stupid. Get me on CNBC and I will break the trade out to the masses!

Could I have held this trade longer? Of course. Should I have held it longer? Possibly, but I followed my rules so when my target was hit I exited. We are pretty far along in this downtrend, and technically the weekly uptrend is still intact, albeit hanging by a string at this point. Moves will always go beyond where I take profits, that in and of itself does not bother me. I have been looking to get short some of the other currencies up here thinking the dollar would find support somewhere down here. As a result, I selected a shorter term target on this trade. Time to move on.

Here is another trade setup I am watching, BONDS.

We see the trend oscillators pointing down and price now bouncing. I am looking to short this bounce hopefully in the next couple of days. It is interesting to me that this market has not declined more with this huge stock rally we have had in the last 2 weeks. This may be telling us that this rally is about done. It is almost as if this market is hanging tough as a flight to safety spot just in case the stock rally rolls over here. Nonetheless, that is basically speculation on my part and has nothing to do with the trades I make. If this sets up in the next few days I will take the trade. There are alot of people calling the Bond market a bubble up here. They might be right I have no idea. However there is a difference between GOLD for example that is rising on pure speculation and not fundamentals, and BONDS which are rising on pure fundamentals. There is a known historic precedent for rates declining during times of economic stress. It cuts to the heart of the very nature of how money flows. With GOLD there is no such historic correlation. This makes these two markets completely different in terms of their bubble status to me.

However, if you believe economic prosperity is right around the corner, shorting BONDS would be a good play. I just have a short term pattern setting up, no more no less. I have no idea whether or not this market is a bubble.

TURNING JAPANESE

Here we have the EWJ which is the ETF for Japan. This market appears to have made a bottom. Both the trend oscillators are confirming at least that a near term low is in so dips here should be bought. There has been alot of talk about China and Japan as the next great economic powers. It certainly appears with that blockhead/communist that we have at the helm, that it won't be us.

Of the places I am considering moving due to where I see things going here, the far east is not one of them. I cannot stand cigarette smoke, so there is nothing for me over there even if the economy over there out performs ours. For the moment, it appears buying the dips there is the play. We may also be moving into that situation here with the US stock market on a short term basis. I still think the weekly is in a downtrend, but we are not up to where I would be looking for shorts, and my indicators on the daily charts are nowhere near sell signals right now.

BH if you are reading today, the short position I mentioned to you is not close to being put on now.

The above sp500 chart shows a definite change in upward momentum telling us to look to buy dips. For those still bearish, you can see one item on this chart that supports that case. We have the top oscillator having exceeded the peak of the prior top, yet price is way below the same level corresponding to that peak. This generally indicates buying exhaustion, so there should be a retracement in reaction to that exhaustion. It is how things look once that retracement happens that will determine whether I get long on a dip or not. It is too early to tell right now if a dip is a definitive buy or not. My wish list would be for a small dip and another leg up into the weekly resistance, which would setup a sell for a larger move down.

Will it happen? Who knows, but I know what I will do if it does. Have a plan and be prepared to execute it accordingly. I am sorry for the shorter posts lately. Having to use this old editor with Blogger until they fix the problem makes doing this very time consuming. I just do not have endless time in the mornings to do this. Once they get it fixed, whenever that is, I will get back into more charts. Having to load them, then rearrange the HTML code just to get them close to the right location just sucks, and takes too much time.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED

I was of the opinion that there would be a bounce, and boy has there ever been. I had thought it would be a selling opportunity, but it does not appear to be now. This has been a moonshot, and gapped higher tonight as I post this. From a weekly perspective we are still in a downtrend, but from a daily perspective we no longer are. I have labeled a 5 point Megaphone pattern. This was originally written about by Edwards and Magee and has more recently been plagiarized by a few people claiming it as their own. Of course they are misrepresenting the truth, something very common in today's world.

Often you will see these at key turning points. I was aware of this when we were at the lows, but I just did not have any other buy signals, and these signals are notoriously inaccurate. They are not near good enough just to trade on their own. It is really more for observation than anything else. One so called owner of this concept, by himself of course, claims these are 70% accurate. They are nowhere near that, but they are a tool that if you personally can figure out how to know when they will work and will not, you have something valuable to trade with. I have never been able to figure out how to consistently trade them, so I don't trade them at all.

It does appear to me that if we move up another 20 points or so in this, we should meet some good resistance and a possible weekly sell spot might be something to look for.

I got stopped out in my short trade in Heating Oil today. When we get these explosive stock moves, virtually everything on the board except the dollar goes straight with it. As much as it pains me to say this, until proven otherwise you probably should filter all trades no matter what market except for the softs and meats, with what you think stocks will do. Shorting anything during stock rallies for the last year has been impossible to do profitably. I have never seen anything like this but it is what it is. I did short the DX today which of course will often trade opposite of stocks on a day like this. This also did not used to be the case. Again, it is what it is, deal with it.

As much as it may be tempting to short this moonshot if you are bearish, this has squeeze written all over it and I would not recommend it until we see it show signs of stalling. Remember, trade what is not what you think should be.

ENERGIES LOW ON ENERGY?

There was a question in another post about Crude Oil and my reply involved Heating Oil, so here is how that chart looks. We see the longer term trend indicator still in a down position but getting close to breaking upward. The shorter term indicator has far outraced price as indicated by the red arrows on the chart. This could be a situation where the market has punched itself out on this bounce and we resume a downward move. However, it does appear to me that if we rally through this area here, most of what I watch will have turned upward, and the trend will then be up. I have orders in to short this market below Friday's low as indicated by the red arrow on the chart. This is heating oil, but crude oil trades along side of it, and they do move together. I selected Heating Oil simply because of another filter I use that I do not discuss in here that tells me if we turn down the probability is a little better there than in Crude. After today I do not know if this sell setup will still be here, so it needs to trigger today. The energy markets appear to be back in sync with equities so unless we get a stock market decline today, this trade will not likely be filled.

A reader asked me a question about how to manage his current Crude Oil short. My answer may have come across a little mixed. The point I always try to make with anyone is that you have to have your exit strategy determined before entering any trade. I know exactly where my stop loss is for the above trade, it will be above Friday's high if my short order is elected. The minute I get filled, I will place the stop. If the trade moves in my favor, I will move it down according to an exact plan until it is either hit or my profit objective is reached. That part of trading should be very simple. If you get yourself into deciding these things after you are already in, emotion will get the best of you, and you will make poor decisions.

Since the reader entered at the market ( not what I do ) vs on weakness ( how I enter ), it is hard for me to tell him or her how to get out, because they are in a trade I would not be in. However, if you have an area where you think if price gets there you are wrong, then that is where your stop should be.

I am very short on time this morning, I will make up for my lack of content tomorrow. I went to Lake Havasu at the end of last week which is why I did not post anything for 2 days, chillin in 117 degrees!

BREAKING UP THE PERFECT GAME

On the way to setting up the perfect short entry, things got messed up yesterday. That very sharp short covering rally turned the very short term indicators I like to use for timing, up too sharply for a near term short entry. As a result, I think we are going to go up for a longer period, perhaps a week or two. We may not do that since I think things are pretty bearish overall, but that is what is going to be required now for my entry patterns to give me a way in here. We could just rollover here and I would miss the trade, I don't get em all unfortunately. What I do is get most of them that have my patterns. I know the odds are good that when my patterns are there, the markets will move in the direction I am looking. If they are not I look to another market. I am not married to only trading the stock indexes, I make most of my money elsewhere in all honesty. This is just because there are alot of other markets so there just wind up being more opportunities collectively from them, when comparing them to just one stock market.

I like to have all of these lined up to do a trade or at least 2 of the three, so this is not looking good now but you never know what will unfold going forward. If we were to roll down today by the end these could come back into line.

Here is Gold which continues to crater, rallies are shorting opportunities here. Once again, I am not sure if this is "it" or just another pullback. This is certainly not the accleration that I think will be there once the exits get crowded. However, we are steadily moving down and this market appears to finally be moving on it's own fundamentals instead of speculation. I think we will have to take out a major pivot point to get $100 down day acceleration type of move that I think is in the future here at some point. Until then I guess if you are a gold bug you buy the dips. There is just not a trade for me right here at this point so I am looking elsewhere at the moment.

I am also still looking to short the British Pound as per my post yesterday, and also possibly the energies and a couple other currencies.

Good Trading to everyone today

POUND FOR YOUR THOUGHTS?

Above is a chart of the British Pound trade, part of the Barry is an idiot trade the world seems to be making. They are running out of the Dollar and into the currencies of the countries that seem interested in getting a handle on government spending. For those Dollar bears, you elected the right man it appears. Just when it was on a very nice comeback run this talk show host made it clear to the world he is clueless and they should run for the hills from the dollar and into currencies of countries trying to get a handle on this situation. It is not too late though. The Dollar has now fallen right into weekly support areas, and the Pound above seems to be setup for a short entry.

The first subgraph here, which tracks longer term momentum does show it being very strong in an upward direction here. The shorter term trend indicators are telling us the opposite story. If this reversal bar we currently have going holds today, I will likely be trying to short this market tomorrow if my last filter confirms it. I cannot run that until after the close, so I do not know if it will make the cut yet.

Here is the US Dollar which is in my buy zone right here and is also accompanied by a nice uptrend in momentum. It Barry's ineptitude powerful enough to thwart this setup here as a buy? It very well could be, we need to hold right here in my opinion for this uptrend to stay intact. Billions betting against his competence could well be enough to reverse this trend. If he could just keep his mouth shut for a week we might be okay, but that hardly seems likely.

Looking at all of this together, if the Dollar were to hold here, it should trigger some sell signals in other currencies like the Pound above.

HERE IS MY PLAN GOING FORWARD

Since I have stated that I think we are on the verge of a big breakdown in the stock market, I am just going to trade primarily from the short side until October or something changes dramatically.

Here is a chart of the VIX which appears to be telling us that Volatility is a buy which generally means stocks are a sell. However, it does appear to me we need a day or possibly two more for this to setup correctly. The stock market is extremely oversold as well which means a bounce is required for short entries. As a result I will wait at least until the end of the day tomorrow to look for longs here in the VIX and shorts in stocks. If we go down again, then I will miss it.





The same picture is brewing for GOLD. We have broken the daily uptrend and now are in a sell the bounce mode as long as the bounce does not go too far.

You can see the downtrends in the trend oscillators here with now a small reaction against them beginning. If I am right in my view on stocks, this market is also likely to drop substantially due to the big deflation wave that is about to hit. For now it is still in the weekly uptrend, so if it were to hold here the bigger picture trend remains intact. A nice little inflection point we have here.

The last market to talk about here is Sugar. This market is setup on a short term basis for a short entry. I am not posting a chart due to what a pain it is with this editor. I have to upload them, then switch to HTML mode and cut and paste the image code to the location in the blog I want which is why the spacing gets messed up. Too much brain damage for me today. Blogger with the old editor puts all the images in front of everything else at the top forcing you to have to relocate all of them. I suggest anyone looking at Sugar to look for sell entries tomorrow.

In what I will call a weekly dumbass award, I nominate the poor mans Barack Obama, Michael Steele. Is it a requisite that you be a numbnut to be the head of a political party? Not sure who I would want on my spelling bee team between he and Barry?

Good trading to everyone this week

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

I have not been able to get the new editor to load and of course Blogger has nobody you can call, so I guess it is back to the old one which does not work nearly as well. I guess for free this is still an awfully nice tool to have. My apologies for the erratic spacing, this editor is very difficult to work with. Above is the SP 500 chart which has completely broken down. There is nothing good to say about this at all except that we are so oversold that a bounce could happen at any time. My guess at this point now when I take into account this breakdown and all the other things that are going on, is that the lows of 2008 are probably going to get taken out by the time this whole mess is over. I have no idea how long it will take, but the bigger picture trend has now switched to down.

With an absolute idiot at the helm, this ship I am afraid is going to sink. The deleveraging that began that was kicked down the road by the PPT I think is going to reassert itself now in a massive deflationary wave. This is not a change in posture by me, readers know that I have maintained for quite some time, that we are in deflationary period. It is one of the main big picture reasons as to why I say GOLD is in a bubble inflated by small speculators. In a deflationary environment hard assets should not be appreciating other than be driven by speculation.

The cycles do call for an October buy spot but I fear now that it likely only to be a rally in a downtrend and not a major buying point. The doctoring of todays non farm payrolls report was once again an insult to anyone who is paying attention at all. The ADP report kind of makes what was reported Friday impossible. However, Barry as per usual just says F you I won and I can do whatever I want including lie to you about virtually everything including the unemployement data. I would suggest extreme caution now if you are a long term bull for stocks, I think you will have a much better spot than where we are now, much better, so do not get roped into buying this dip as a long term play yet.

You have to watch the reaction to the news more than the news itself, and today told it all. They doctored that report to make it much better than what it really should have been, and the market after a small bounce just continued lower. The exits are about to get pretty crowded. I am amazed that the PPT was able to maneuver prices up this high, it was a PICASSO. The biggest problem that I see out there going forward is the lack of bullets the PPT now has to fire if we get a big rollover here. Can they keep buying futures and lose hundreds of millions again like they did during 07-08? I doubt it. The public is turning up the heat on all the spending and where the tax dollars are going. I just don't think the stonewall approach Barry and his henchmen take is going to work forever. At some point after nicely protesting, the protests are going to turn nasty like what is happening in other parts of the world.

If you examine history and the original Tea Party, that did not happen until all the peaceful objections to the King were ignored. This recent justice department fiasco where we now know that black people can do things to whites and not vice versa is the icing on this cake. Which ever side of the political fence you sit on this is a very dangerous precedent. People will not allow themselves to be treated unfairly forever. You can bet on this, come election day if they try to rig the elections by blocking good honest citizens from voting, violence will break out. I personally would be the first in line to throw down with these guys if they tried to block me, would not flinch.

I fear more than ever than things are about to become really dicey in this country, but boy do I hope I am wrong. I just feels to me like we have reached the tipping point. The markets are going with this if I am right. One of the most troubling developments in my mind is the strength of the Pound and Euro now versus the dollar. These were two places that supposedly had more debt problems than we do here in the states. The markets are telling us that there is becoming a loss of confidence in the United States. It is no coincidence these uptrends accelerated after that retard argued with other foreign leaders against austerity measures. It was almost as if the powers that be in the rest of the world realized at that moment that he is an idiot and it is time to bet against us. You can look back in my prior posts to see where I said I thought a rally in the EURO was coming. The commercials had historic long positions and the small speculators short ones. Now we seem to have some political forces behind the move as were as the numeric basis. This bodes poorly for our markets here in my view.

GOLD

We had that huge down day in GOLD just the second day after I said I thought this could fall sharply at any moment. On the surface this looks ominous, but there is one interesting development with the POIV indicator. Notice how the purple line has a large amount of bullish divergence. This is very unusual for this to diverge this much, and is potentially a saving grace for the bulls. This has to be watched closely now because this is rarely wrong when you see it this prominent. It can be worked off quickly on a big down day so this is not a run out and buy the dip moment. The Pattern Maps are forecasting lower based on the last 10 days or so of bar action. If we happen to bounce up for a few days another shorting opportunity could present itself if the POIV "catches up" to price on the downside. If it does not we might move sideways to up.

This is all for today, working with this editor makes doing this take forever and I am out of time.

FORE!

MY APOLOGIES FOR THE PROBLEMS I AM HAVING WITH BLOGGER RIGHT NOW. I CANNOT GET THE NEW POST EDITOR TO LOAD AND THE OLD ONE SUCKS. I WILL TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT THIS WEEKEND.

BRIEFLY READ MY COMMENTS ON GOLD FROM THE OTHER DAY. IT IS TOO SOON TO TELL IF THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING BIG OR NOT, BUT THIS IS WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE WHENEVER THIS BUBBLE DOES FINALLY BURST.