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I offer the same layered chart that I did back on March 29th: please note that the summation of advances/declines (blue line) is more and more out of synch with the nominal index values (notice how much has changed in the rightmost 40% of the chart compared to the “steady as she goes” beforehand.
Please note this vitally important retracement level on IWM. We peaked on November 8th, ground our way down lower through June 16th (eight months of bearish deliciousness!) and then have spent the past two months in this hellish, awful, horrific counter-trend rally, which has just about nailed the major Fibonacci level to the penny.
Last time my virtual portfolio went through this midnight prison-raping ended on March 29th, with the main difference being THAT counter-trend rally (about which I whined endlessly) lasted two WEEKS, whereas this goddamned cursed soul-sucking monster has been going on for TWO GODDAMN MONTHS. Behold my loss of, yes, $400 BILLION dollars………..
Well, THAT was a shit sandwich! At least for any bears besides me. Jesus!
I was watching the CPI release with great anticipation. You can imagine how I felt when I saw that think spike go raging higher on the screen. It felt like an OHLC bar was being shoved through my stomach. So it seems that the Sloper verdict about how tame inflation would be was on-the-mark.
The only things I did right over the past two days were:
