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PREMIUM: Never-Ending Liquidity

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by Silver Singularity


Hi Slopers, time for another post and, boy, what a year so far!

Where to start? Well, NVDA I guess! What happened with that stock is the most mind-blowing thing I have ever seen so far, and I’ve been trading since 2012, even TSLA in 2021 wasn’t even close to being as impressive as this one.

The only thing I can recall that felt the same was Bitcoin in 2017 and 2021 but even if crypto is behaving like a risk-on asset it’s just not comparable to stocks IMO.

For some perspective about how strong that mania has become, at $973 on Friday NVDA was up 97% and a whopping $1.2T (almost) in market cap added YTD.

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High Retests Likely

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I mentioned in my post on Tuesday morning that the historical stats for the rest of this week leaned bullish, and that the stats for next week after the holiday all lean bearish, and after the low on Tuesday afternoon we’ve been seeing that deliver so far.

I capped the chart below after the close on Wednesday 14th with the very decent looking rising wedge that had formed from the low on SPX, and that looked as though that might break down on Thursday 15th, delivering a decent right shoulder high on a possible H&S right shoulder.

SPX 1min (after close 14th Feb) chart:

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