Ramp & Holiday Camp

Two more days until Christmas Eve – how time flies! Do you remember how long it took when we were kids, opening one door after the other on our Christmas calendar? It was a magical time for me, especially when I was a young little bugger growing up in Austria. Yes, we are talking Lederhosen but before you get any ideas – all remaining pictures have been destroyed in a nuclear incinerator. Anyway in those parts, there is simply no chance escaping Christmas, you will be assimilated. Especially if the village you grow up in transforms itself into Santa’s Village right at the start of December:

In comparison Christmas here in Spain is rather drab – I just can’t get into the spirit of things when it’s 20 degrees Celsius (~68 Fahrenheit) outside. Not that I’m complaining really – if I have a choice between sipping Glühwein in the cold or running around in a t-shirt in mid of December, I’ll pick the latter anytime. Twenty years of living Los Angeles has ruined more life!

Now you already know that when the Mole gets chatty there’s probably not much going on market side – and you would be right! I just poked around and didn’t see anything worth tinkering with. Equities are back near their all time highs – actually the new March E-Mini contract already breached them. As you know pretty much anything can happen in low volatility tape and whoever jumped on this squeeze near the bottom now has plenty of opportunity to shake out weak hands during the holiday tape. I personally won’t take a wager here either way, at least not before Christmas.

Nothing much else going on over in forex or the futures, so I best leave you to wrapping presents, brining turkeys, last minute shopping excursions, shoveling snow, yelling at your spouse, assaulting fellow shoppers over some damn toy – however you choose to observe the most magical time of the year. Truth be told and all cynicism aside, I myself am looking forward to some much needed downtime. It’s been non-stop all year here at the Evil Lair and I could definitely use a few days of relaxation. Which brings me to the…

Holiday Schedule:

I will be posting here tomorrow and the morning of the 24th – not expecting much excitement but if there’s anything juicy worth our time I’ll report it. Thursday and Friday I’m off of course. Next week (days between Christmas and NYE) I’ll only be posting once per day, most likely before the market opens. That is assuming there’s anything interesting to talk about.

Thor, CrazyIvan, the Zero, etc. – all premium services will run as usual. I can’t promise there will be a lot of entries but we put them up as we see them. See you guys later.

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Cheers,