Friday Rock Blog: Phil Collins Shorts EWJ (Japanese stock ETF)

Disclosure: I have a bunch of EWJ puts.

Saturday Rock Blog: Frank Zappa's Hot Rats and Ugly IWM Breakouts

Disclosure: I am mostly short, including a significant long position in TZA

Saturday Rock Blog: Touch or Low risk shorts abound! (e.g., DD and JNJ)

Disclosure:  I am short JNJ own DD puts.

Saturday Rock Blog: Drop (US Real Estate)

Big Wave Riding or How the S&P 500 looks like its about to tank or Monday Night FOMC-Week Rock Blog

With the recent rapid rise in interest rates, a surging yen, plunging global equities, new bear market in gold, and spiking VIX, many investors seems to be scratching their heads at the modest ~5% correction in US stocks ($169 to $160).  If the world is going through a significant deflationary correction (like every index except for US stocks suggests), then why haven't stocks dropped more?  Its anybody's guess and there are many things to point to such as the accommodating FOMC (no tapering!), improving US economy, or possibility of fiscal stimulus.  

Its anybody's guess and there are many things to point to such as the accommodating FOMC (no tapering!), improving US economy, or possibility of fiscal stimulus.  Frankly, I think it could be just a question of leading indicators vs lagging indicators, and the US stock indexes seem to be the latter case these days (a lagging indicator).  US stock investor shave grown complacent due to the Bernanke put, and have absolutely no fear of a meaningful correction.  That could all be changing right under the bull's noses, if you put all of the puzzle pieces together.  Lets keep it simple, based on the above SPY chart I would be looking for shorts anywhere $162 to $165.  If SPY can break ~$166 then the bulls could squeeze us up to new highs.  However, I think a break of $162-ish spells doom for the bulls with ~$153-$156 (5%-7% lower) targeted by the  rising 200 dma and measure rule ($169 - $160 = A, $160- $165 = B).  

Probably what will happen is a huge move one day this week related to the FOMC.  Either the market will go into some sort of panic and tank, or the bears will capitulate and send stocks into an upwards crash/capitulation, such as I've spoken of recently.  I also wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of huge fake out, for example, a spike to new highs followed by a drop below $162 in the same day.  If you start to see the volume spike then you'll know the big wave is upon is.

Disclosure:  I have no SPY position but I have many other shorts, including S&P500-correlated indexes like the Russel 2000 and the Dow Jones Industrials.  I am long the yen and short gold.  So I am short, and I intend to stay short unless we break recent highs.  If we slide through recent lows it'll be time to hang ten.

Saturday Rock Blog: Escape

Lose Yourself to VIX

If this thing breaks 20... yikes.

Disclosure:  Yeah, I own some puts (on other stocks).

Broken Link

Looks like LNKD could head to ~$125 so long as it holds below ~$165.  I have no position but puts are tempting.

Nothing But Tears (Coming for JNJ)

There are many extremely interesting charts right now. We've are in the midst of one of the longest winning streaks (base don various metrics) in decades for US stocks and this has lead to some really nice formations.  Over the next few days I'm going to post some breathtaking charts. I think we are really close to a major turning point (based on bonds, yen, topping patterns, etc) but will we crash up in a capitulative top or has it happened already? Regardless, I am convinced the price action will be fascinating. I am going to update the blog later this week (long overdue), but first, enjoy some sweet charts. JNJ is one that has many people puzzled, the stock had been soaring until the recent correction which looks very healthy by most standards. If it weren't for the fact that we aren't having a baby boom right now, if the steep uptrend hadn't broken, if that beautiful inverted hammer candle hadnt formed at a new all time high, and if the CCI and stochastics weren't flashing bearish signals, I might be bullish on this 50 dma bounce. Instead, I'd look to get puts when the stock reaches the 87.50-88 area. I have no position currently. To quote the words of our former dear leader, "this sucker might go down".

ChicagoStock: Wave 5

Friday Rock Blog: Get Lucky

Friday Rock Blog: Jane Says

As you can see from the above, I see the potential for this past week's high to be a major top.  Some aspects of the recent price action look like capitulation but neither the volume nor the severity of the decline have me convinced.  I have come around to thinking that the only way this five year bull market ends is with a capitulation event where price and volume spike, then reverse.  Upward breakouts from rising wedges (see weekly below) usually end in tears, but we still have a few more months till the wedge apex.  If this is capitulation, then it feels more like the beginnings of it rather than the end.  More and more people are talking about the stock market these days, and it seems like the public is getting in now, finally... 1000 points later (150%).  I have longs and shorts but I'm long SPY aggressively long via calls right now.

Disclosure: I own SPY calls

Saturday Rock Blog: Space Oddity

Saturday Rock Blog: Any Way You Want It

Disclosure: I am long DGLD (short GLD x3)

Saturday Symphony Blog: Four Seasons

The S&P breaks 1600!!!

Yen and Dow Seasonal Since 2007

Saturday Rock Blog: Good Enough

Saturday Rock Blog: Sky is the Limit

The Russell 2000 (small caps) broke hard today

In today's lovely daily candlestick, IWM broke through two seemingly important price points and more importantly  its flattening 50 dma.  The small cap ETF did all of this on 100M shares traded, second only to the first trading day of the year (~3x avg vol).  This now brings into focus previous a previous area of support around ~$89, then nothing but air for another -$4.

Disclosure:  I own TWM (inverse IWM)