Good evening, my awesome Gold and Diamond members. I wanted to do a brief post this evening about this chart:

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Good evening, my awesome Gold and Diamond members. I wanted to do a brief post this evening about this chart:

Courtesy of SlopeCharts, let’s take a look at what percentage of U.S. stocks are above their respective 100-day moving averages.

It seems folks believe that things are going back to exactly how they used to be Real Soon Now. I find this particularly reflected in restaurant stocks. Gloomy sourpuss that I am, meh, I don’t think so. My view is that we’ve simply pushed prices back up to major reversal levels. I offer you the following dark visions of doomed dining.

I’ve mentioned my 100% commitment in my options account to my October 16 $34 puts on the Brazilian fund EWZ. I noticed something curious last week which another reader wrote me about: this fund’s propensity to shoot up higher in the morning and then retreat afterwards. Even in the past couple of days, we can see this plainly:

Sadly, my prediction that 2020 would represent resistance for gold held quite true. We might a nice run at it yesterday, but then – – boing!!
