Can Bonds Deliver as Retail Stocks Cave and Utilities Rebel?
We begin with , which is doing a yeoman’s job of sinking. It is approaching the lower half of its long-time descending channel, and I think energy is speaking truthfully to us about what’s ahead for the economy.
The , global equities, is sinking away from its long-term broken uptrend.
still have an absolutely solid chance of rallying, provided prices don’t’ sink back again into that green-tinted zone.
iShares China Large-Cap ETF (NYSE:) continues to weaken beneath its right triangle.
One of my three sine-wave trades, the small caps iShares ETF (NYSE:), had a nice down day today and is behaving itself perfectly properly.
got kicked in the balls, thanks to both severe weakness (investment bank downgrade) as well as profit-taking on tech in general.
The same holds true for , which is of course very dependent on a single stock, Nvidia (NASDAQ:).
Bonds, precisely as I hoped and predicted, as sinking away from that broken red uptrend.
My second “sine wave trade”, utilities, was annoyingly strong today, perhaps as a defensive play. I actually bought a few more puts as it strengthened, but it sure as hell better start to weaken again soon.
My third and final sine wave trade, retail, went down today, which is a good thing. I’ve got March puts on all of these (IWM, , ) and am really needing these to work out before I get aggressive with my trading again.
It was an exceptionally long day (trip to the airport, miserable red-eye light, lots of driving, lots of packing, all the while trying to do my job more-or-less) so I’m going to turn in.
