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ES consolidated yesterday and overnight without delivering much in the way of retracement. Will it retrace more definitely today? Well the setup is there but these can get steamrollered by a strong trend upwards, and I think we are in one of those here. We shall see. The setup is there for a possible retracement into the 1525 area if the current high isn't broken with confidence:
I'm going to save everyone the obvious joke about Netflix
releasing a show called House of Cards as their stock price defies gravity and
continues to float on a cloud of hopes, dreams, and Carl Icahn's influence. But seriously, how sweet an irony it would be
if a show titled House of Cards marks the top of Netflix? I'd have to rank it amongst one of the
funnier things to happen on Wall
St. in quite a while. I will make my argument for shorting NFLX on
several fronts; fundamental, technical, and "seriously, its trading at
what and I can short it?!?!" common sense.
(Editor’s note – Gary Tanashian gives us the post below, which is timely given my newfound love of gold. Just to be clear, particularly for the miners, I am long precious metals as a bounce play; I am as bearish on miners as ever – – I don’t feel nearly as strongly about the metals themselves – – and have every intention of shorting the bejesus out of miners once they’ve bounced; however, some of the battered miners might spring 50% higher from current levels, so it pays to wait – Tim)
The noise of the day includes much hand-wringing about gold
manipulation, gold’s precarious technical situation, the end of gold as a
useful tool for protection against inflation and even the end of its
bull market. But maybe a simple look at the facts works better.
Central Banks’ Balance Sheets vs. Gold. Source: DoubleLine Funds
I wrote about the Commodities Sector ratio of DBC:SPX here on January 20th. DBC had been underperforming the SPX, essentially, since mid-2011 and was in a large triangle formation on the Weekly timeframe.
Since then, it has weakened further to make a lower low and has broken below triangle support, as shown below on the Weekly ratio chart of DBC:SPX. There is a slight positive divergence on the Momentum indicator, but it has not hooked up yet.
Slope isn't exactly the go-to place for long ideas most of the time, but I wanted to at least show a little balance and offer up some bullish-looking charts. More particularly, I wanted to show some that weren't so completely over-the-top in price that they might actually still be good prices (unlike, say, Campbell's Soup – CPB – which has vaulted to heights most folks would never associated with cream of mushroom soup). Anyway, here they are:
