Equities stared down the abyss this morning and then decided to take a step back as life may yet be worth living. So my condolences to all you perma-bears who yet again expected the end of the world as we know it. Please forgive my sarcastic tone but whenever ZeroHedge and its like switch into fifth gear and panic among retail traders hits a fever pitch, that is when I operate the best. Visions of samurai Mole mercilessly but calmly swinging his katana come to mind.
Look folks – emotions and mental masturbations – please leave all that to the losers. There are a ton of them, which is why their collective voices have a tendency to drown out any uttering of reason [...]
I (Volar) posted some relatively bearish evidence yesterday. But sure enough something interesting did pop up.
Not saying something is not developing longer-term, but this and another one for the rats might make you take some VEGA off of the table for at least a day or two…
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Thus far the SPX managed to yet again bounce off that diagonal that’s been providing support for the past two months now. But as the old saying goes: You can run but you can’t hide!
At each step on the way the tapeĀ offers us three scenarios with – up, down, sideways – simple. Evaluating the odds and inflection points of those three scenarios is key in staying on the right side of the trade. And although the tape looks like a veritable clusterfuck and is bound to confuse or scare the retail schmucks it’s the kind of setup I revel in. Why? Because this gives me plenty of ammunition to define my setups and to evaluate risk and odds of [...]
FWIW I (Volar) donāt trade much in July and August for seasonality reasons.
Sorry I have been gone from ES- just been utterly busy and mostly out of town.
Anyways, I would first like to show you a chart pertaining to āfundamentals.ā From ZH to every other blog, Muppets flock to the US news and data to seek the end of the world. None of them even consider that 30% of S&P earning are from abroad, let alone in 5 years more cars have been sold abroad than the US has people. Incomes are growing abroad, and until that changes dont get too hung up on useless data here in the US.
Here is a chart that places things into perspective.
So, when do you [...]