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It was only last month that the media felt the need to offer a reassurance like this one:
Anyone notice that, now that the Dow Industrials has risen about 7,000 points, no one is running around screeching and wringing their hands about closing the markets? Yeah, I thought not. The world hates bears and loves, loves loves the bulls.
I got in my head an epic piece I want to write about this entire situation, but that’s probably best for a weekend.
(more…)The first email came in August 2014.
TK, – Had my big meeting with the doctor’s yesterday evening and it is not good at all. Seems my diabetes has weakened my heart substantially as well as kidney damage. So, we are now on a strict regimen for controlling that. heart is so bad, candidate for a heart transplant. NOT going to happen. the good news is, cholesterol is good as blood pressure. Also, losing weight as directed. Down to 221! So, going to do whatever I have to do to stop the “bleeding” as it were. just to keep you informed. – – Dutch
And, six years later, I got this on the 4th of April 2020, only a few weeks ago:
(more…)A while ago, we introduced our Statistics data panel. An important part of that panel was the Advances/Declines data, but we had to get rid of it because the data vendor stopped providing it. Undaunted, we decided to create the data ourselves! So I’m delighted to let you know the Statistics data panel is back, and frankly I think the data is better than ever (since we created it this time).
The Slope of Hope system calculates each day the number of stocks that increased in value, the number that decreased in value, what the sum total of those values is, and what the “running” total is back to the beginning of its calculation, many years ago.
(more…)The past two months have had the equivalent of about two years of news and market activity compressed into an incredibly tight and vivacious space. This is an incredibly difficult market to trade. Now that the weekend is upon us, allow me to reflect on an important personal anecdote and how it is informing my current approach.
The time leading up to the February 19th was a total and utter grind. It was an era of a VIX in the sub-teens and a relentless notch higher every single day for the bulls. It was horrific. And then, out of the clear blue sky (and many weeks after the virus was widely reported on the news), we got our first good, hard dip. For me, it was like a tall glass of cool water in the desert.
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