Although the equity futures such as the /NQ are continuing in their directionless, meandering, maddening drift, day after day………
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Don’t You Dare!
Well, after nearly an hour of waiting for the Grok 4 livestream to start, I’m just going to compose my last post of the day and send it out, since the livestream is neither live nor streaming.
Simply stated, the market hasn’t gone down since April 21st. Hardly a downtick in sight. For obvious reasons, I am feeling this particularly acutely, and as of Wednesday’s close I was still at a whisper light commitment level of 73% (with one portfolio a vanishingly tiny 23% commitment level, which is just plain sad).
Yet if you look at an of the index charts below over the past three months, not only has the market done nothing but go up, but it has done so with increasingly smooth and predictable regularity. It’s a true bummer. Seriously.
Grok 4 Livestream
Kindly note that Elon and the boys will be live-streaming the introduction of Grok 4 this evening at 8 PST. I’ll be watching! Just tune in to XAI’s channel on X.
Honey Nuts
In the “thank God I’m not short that” department is Kellogg’s, which this evening was announced to be the target of a takeover which is sending its surprisingly-young stock up by about 50%.
Interesting Momo
I went through the nearly one hundred charts in the “momentum” list I wrote about earlier today, and I found eight of them I found especially interesting:
