Long ideas have become pretty rare from me, so I thought I’d at least throw one out that still looks pretty good – Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
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The Flagging Dow Industrials
Only three charts today as I’ve had a lot on this morning.
One reason I do my optic run views on my seven main US equity indices is because while SPX is often the technical leader, by which I mean not that it moves fastest, but that it is delivering the cleanest trendlines/patterns and fibonacci retracements, that is not always the case. That leader at the moment is the Dow Industrials, and my first two charts will illustrate why that is.
The rising wedge on SPX that I tweeted on Tuesday night hit the very well defined wedge resistance (tweeted at the high yesterday) and then broke down on the frankly very predictable not really news that QE3 had ended in October as planned, and the usual assurances that the Fed would be fighting hard to keep interest rates near zero until the stars fall from the sky. Now those of you who have been looking at my work closely for a while might have wondered why I was giving strong weight to a pattern on SPX that was mediocre due to the poorly defined support trendline, and the answer to that question is of course that ………. SPX 15min chart: (more…)
Not So Precious
I mentioned off-handedly to my Slope Plus subscribers yesterday that gold was my biggest short position. Well, “precious” metals are getting slaughtered (again) this morning, with silver being hit particularly hard. It certainly is puzzling, given the trillions of new fiat dollars kicking around, but there you have it.
