Two good days in a row. I won't get used to it. The crapola bull-filled last 11 months has left me bitter and disillusioned. But seeing a bunch of green over the past couple of days has been nice. I was prepared for all the pointless "Buy the dips!" and "Get in now to ride to Dow 15,000" nonsense in the comments section. It's what you can expect.
The S&P 500 over the past couple of years was in a giant, upward-sloping channel. The highlighted area is the "above even the top" chunk. The madness exceeding the madness. At a minimum, I would expect us to at least re-enter the aforementioned channel.
The $VIX, understandably, has shot higher, given the approximately 200 points blown off the Dow 30. Fear is on the rise. Finally.
AutoZone is one of those nice shorts which has a tight stop but plenty of potential downside. It's one of those charts that could represent a major trend-shift but doesn't make you pay through the nose to see if you are right or wrong.
Bunge (BG), mentioned here many times already, is on its way to its target price. This is a short position (obviously).
A thoughtful reader sent me a suggestion of symbol CEG. This is a handsome looking short. I have no position in it, but I'll follow it from now on.
Big Blue, good old IBM, really got smacked today. I've got puts on both IBM and Honeywell (HON), both of which pushed much higher on the day.
I am showing NVR again simply because it is such a "Fibonacci friendly" stock, to use a phrase I coined a while back. The way it bounces off these retracement lines is really a sight.
I've unsuccessfully owned puts on Sears Holding (SHLD) in the past, and it has never worked out. Once more into the breach, dear friends.
Since I'm feeling a little better, I'll keep throwing the goodies your way. Here's the marvelous Naive Melody from you-know-who.
