This all the mayhem around rocket stocks, I was tempted to short Firefly Aerospace (FLY) last week based on nothing but its price gap. I confess, I just couldn’t get up the courage. What a shame! Look at that hard reversal.

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This all the mayhem around rocket stocks, I was tempted to short Firefly Aerospace (FLY) last week based on nothing but its price gap. I confess, I just couldn’t get up the courage. What a shame! Look at that hard reversal.

My RIVN long is doing dandy, but I wanted to at least give a heads-up to an important resistance point in the form of a price gap formed between the last day of 2023 and the first day of 2024 at $23.10. To me, that seems like a good price target (or just below it).

With all the sloshing and swishing throughout the day, when it was all over, the S&P 500 futures closed up 0.07%. Whoop-de-freakin’ ding-dang-doo. Good Lord, this market has become dull.
With that dazzling introduction, as we await the FOMC in 3.5 more trading days, below are some key U.S. stock indexes and, important, their key resistance levels. It would make things a lot more pleasant with the bears if these resistance levels were respected and not exceeded. Here, close up, is the NASDAQ Composite:

The market started off down hard this morning yet as is so often the case, buyers are pushing their way forward, trying to reverse the tide. Let’s take a moment to hone in one something specific, however: precious metals.
Silver has had, shall we say, a spectacular year. Once more, the metal has reached a new lifetime high (nominally speaking, of course).

One can’t help but wonder if the next leg down is imminent…………..
