Some of my favorite charts have lousy options markets, but here are a couple of nearly identical wedge patterns which might be good ideas for a simple short sale.

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Some of my favorite charts have lousy options markets, but here are a couple of nearly identical wedge patterns which might be good ideas for a simple short sale.
Plus, I’m not quite sure how they are going to end this. What’s the epilogue going to say – – that she’s awaiting sentencing? Anyway………..I’m suspecting this is going to be a dud, but:
Here’s how Facebook has been doing for its shareholders, having made half a trillion dollars vanish into the same place from whence it came, which is thin air:
We did our monthly free public Chart Chat at theartofchart.net at 4pm EST on Sunday looking at the options on equity indices as well as looking at the usual wide range of other markets. If you’d like to watch the recording that you can do that here or on our February Free Webinars page.
At the closing print of January an RSI 5 sell signal fixed on the SPX monthly chart. There was already an RSI 14 sell signal fixed but the RSI 5 sell signal is a much more reliable and shorter term signal that has much improved the odds that SPX will deliver the ideal backtest of the 3800 – 3900 area that I’ve been writing about regularly since my August 6th post last year.
(more…)Howdy, people. Well, it’s an electrifying morning. as I’m typing this, the /ES is collapsing 0.04% and the /RTY is exploding higher by 0.06%. It’s even better than a weekend. In any case, the /ES has just been lumbering around, mercifully avoiding a breakout above that horizontal.