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More Good Reasons to Buy

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The surge in equities today is brought forth by one compelling reason:

  • We are not bombing Syria right now

I propose that there are many other reasons to, as Cramer would say, “buy buy buy!”. They are as follows:

  • We are not bombing Iran right now;0902-war
  • We are not bombing France right now;
  • We are not bombing China right now;
  • We are not bombing Canada right now

I’m really not sure what you are waiting for. Buy some LNKD! It’s only got a P/E of 1,000! It’s time to get in on the ground floor.

Mind The Gap

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I covered the short term bull case on SPX pretty thoroughly on Sunday, so I won’t cover that ground again today, and here is the link to that post ‘Cave Taurus’.

Since then ES has rallied as high as 1649, breaking up from the double-bottom there with a target in the 1665.25 area. That double-bottom has an equivalent on SPX and if we see that break up in regular trading hours (RTH) then those patterns are both targeting the same area. 50 hour moving average support is now at 1642. ES 60min chart: (more…)