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A smattering of newer issues continue to strengthen. The ones with surging volume are of particular interest. I don’t own any of these, of course. I am short 50 positions and am looking for more victims. Click any chart for a large version, and you can see the symbol and name in the upper-left corner.
My “triad” of strategy: bullish bonds, bullish gold, bearish equities, is my three-legged stool for 2020. I am pleased to see bonds (by way of TLT) with a bullish island reversal pattern this morning, after some fake-out weakness last Friday.
Welcome to the shortened week, folks (I have a dream too; that we never have any holidays again.) I’m having a terrific morning, in spite of the corrupt, blind, and malevolent pigs known as equity bulls trying to push things up. I’ve got a very healthy profit, and here are five standouts on this fine morning. It’s feeling like a stock picker’s market, and that gives me whatever is equivalent to a smile.
Well, since the mass media couldn’t dream up anything else, they decided to blame an obscure virus in China for the market movements Sunday night. Equities are down…….
I’m surely traipsing onto hallowed ground by saying so, but honestly, I don’t care much for this holiday. It has nothing to do with the man we’re supposed to be sitting around and remembering today. Whether today was in honor of MLK, Cole Porter, FDR, or Buddha, it’s not the person that rubs me the wrong way: it’s the timing. Hear me out on this.
See, I’m a workaholic. I’m shamelessly addicted to workahol. Yet every year, around November 20th or so, things start to slow down, as we enter the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year’s triumvirate of getting nothing done. Everything slows down. But, hey, I can work with that. I can maybe put together a family vacation. And there’s decorating to be done. There’s family to see. The whole schmear.
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