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4 in a row with no relief!

In my 10+ years of trading, it has never been tougher than trading this week. Both banks and oil led us down. Banks kept us down while oil looks like it’s trying to recover. The only thing I traded today was ES, the S&P emini. Looking over the trades, not one was more than 5 minutes and several were under 120 seconds in duration! Oh my! Sure it was a down day, but all my trades were long.

Check this out….you would think we would go a lot lower with a VIX of 349!!

Sure it’s a bad tick, but I thought I’d grab a picture of it just to remember. :)

The TRIN again closed high at 2.99. Remember what I said a couple days ago when the TRIN closed at 3.82…The Arms Index says: TRIN close over 2.0 results in bounce next day 9 times out of 10. No bounce? Market in trouble…..and we got NO bounce…and yes we’re in trouble.

So we’re down 4 days in a row. A 3 or 4% correction is no big whoop, but that is assuming tomorrow the markets get back on track and show some bullishness. If not, the bear is back and we may be on our way to some new lows.

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Fade the Gap

Fading the opening gap seems to be the thing to do the past two days! The S&P eminis were a total chopfest during the morning. But then the bears took the reigns and bye-bye market. Volume was a bit heavier today than yesterday, but it wasn’t a panic. Yes we had a confirmation of yesterday’s bearish engulfing pattern, we lost the 200-day moving average, and we cussed up a storm all afternoon…What the $%@&*!

Many indicators have quickly gone from overbought to oversold. The TRIN closed at 3.82. The Arms Index says: TRIN close over 2.0 results in bounce next day 9 times out of 10. No bounce? Market in trouble. So I guess we have to wait until tomorrow to see how it goes.

Remember, after Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F . . .

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Advance/Decline and PIGSHIT!

The Advance/Decline volume was amazing on Friday….just look at that number…-124:1. You don’t see that very often :!: And the TRIN got up pretty high also: 13.53 at the close, it was even higher during the day. Take a look at this chart.

Now the TRIN I take with a grain of salt. It does not seem to be as accurate since the advent of reverse ETFs. But, according to the book The Arms Index, a TRIN close over 2.0 results in a bounce the next day 9 times out of 10. No bounce? Markets are in trouble. My gut says we’re in trouble. :-(

The newest acronym I found this weekend? the PIGSHIT economies – Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Ireland, Turkey. Now, doesn’t that say it all!

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