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I used to have three dogs. Now I’ve got two, one of whom is more of a fluffy throw pillow than a dog, since he’s too old to do anything except sleep. Thus, I’m really just down to just a single blonde mischief-maker. To stave off depression for the both of us, I’m walking him three times a day instead of just once, because his friend and walking buddy is gone.
In my last post on Monday 30th December I was looking at the options after the big rally from the lows over the previous week. I referred to the prediction I made in my post on 20th December looking for the rally and then lower lows:
‘How long might this rally last? Well given that today is 20th December I’m thinking this rally may well take us into Xmas and fairly shortly thereafter into lower lows. We shall see. ‘
We have now seen those lower lows on US indices and the question now is what happens next. I see two obvious main options here and was looking at these in detail in my premarket video yesterday morning.
(more…)Here is a novel and succinct way to illustrate annual returns for the stock market of a period of many years. I guess I’m a 1931 kind of fella, which is the year my late father was born.
Even with weeks of semiconductor stocks blasting higher, and Jensen Huang loudly declaring in Las Vegas that NVDA was going to provide consumers with their very own AI supercomputers (thus leading to NVDA hitting a lifetime high today), the leveraged long ETF for the semiconductor sector (SOXL) is still configured as utterly broken. That shattered trendline matters.
