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Next Week: Earnings Galore

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Next week is going to be dead quiet for economic news; Monday is a holiday, and Thursday is the only day with any meaningful reports, and even those aren’t that big a deal. And on Friday there’s absolutely nothing, which is pretty rare:

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So it’s going to be earnings, earnings, earnings (for a welcome change). On Tuesday alone, among others, there’s AMD, BHI, CREE, DAL, HAL, IBM, JNJ, and XLNX. It continues to get busier, and then the week following is when the absolute cascade of earnings starts coming, including giants AAPL (the 27th) and GOOG (the 30th).

I’m shorter than ever at this point, with a commitment level of over 110%, and I intend to keep pushing that higher, assuming we can see some meaningful erosion!

Looks Like Miners are Done Falling

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Ever since they bottomed in mid-December, miners have been on a tear. Until yesterday, I was skeptical, but now that GDX and GDXJ have completely blown up their last levels of resistance, I’d say the long-term bottom is probably in. They’ll probably sell off to somewhat more attractive levels than what we’re seeing now, but maybe the gold bugs are, at long last, going to see their glory days return. The precious metals bear market – – at least for miners, I’m not 100% of the metals themselves – – seems to have finished up late in 2013. (more…)