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Strength from Weakness

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I am almost afraid to utter (or write) that things are going well, for fear that the Forces of Evil (Geithner, Bernanke, etc.) will do something else to help the bulls. But we're off to a fantastic start. I've trimmed back my irresponsibly large FAZ position at a very nice profit, and I'm enjoying gains almost across the board, including from these two old favorites:

It's way too early to talk about any kind of "shift" happening, but if we can – – – please, Ursus Major! – – bag a pair of back to back down days, it's something we can consider.

FAZenstein

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Want to see two really interesting graphs that share a lot in common with respect to price action and volume? You do? OK!

You guessed it; the top one is FAS (back in March) and the bottom one is FAZ (as of today). I'm (slightly) ashamed to admit it, but after a lot of analysis, I took the plunge in FAZ again at $4.80. It's a pretty big position, mainly situated as a hedge against my nutty cheapo stocks in my IRA.

As for what happened to FAS since March, you certainly know that………