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Nightly Report (by BBFinance)

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One of the pitfalls of my style of trading is that I am always early for a trade. I have been writing for a while that I expect weakness around December 19-20. This has to do mainly with the liquidity flow or lack of it. The Fed is sucking away some US$ 20 billion on coming Wednesday (selling more T Bills) and that kind of stuff normally affects the stock price. But this was expected and known and I twitted my readers in the morning not to chase the rally. I told them that I expect weakness and when it comes I will go long. In fact about a week back I wrote that I expect SPX test around 1200 level before bouncing back. So here we are today.

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Nightly Report (by BBFinance)

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During the day I tweet many times to my readers.  I would like to quote one in particular in the afternoon;

We might have reached the bottom. Max. Downside another 10 handles in SPX, but I am not betting on it. If it was me, I would close all short.

May be SPX did make a triple bottom. Whatever it is, my algorithms and indicators are saying that we have a short term bottom. I was ready for SPX 1200 +/- 10 handles, and here we are.

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