I stated clearly how important NVDA was to today. Well, it terrified us all to death, but it did NOT cross the line, and today is looking awfully good again!
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I stated clearly how important NVDA was to today. Well, it terrified us all to death, but it did NOT cross the line, and today is looking awfully good again!
How relieved I am to have had the good sense to detect that, considering how a certain person was being a total douchenozzle privately this weekend, it meant something bad was coming. Yeah, I’m a chartist, but I’m also partly human. I can read people. TSLA is getting absolutely bombed, and I’m delighted my family can stand at a safe distance and watch the carnage. Those Fibonaccis have been working beautifully for MONTHS.
Things have changed very swiftly. Just seven days ago, it looked like this market would just go to 100,000 on the Dow without interruption, and all hope would be lost. As it is now, I think the price action forthcoming is going to make Tom Lee’s mascara run. It’s delicious.
From our “Try Not to Overthink Things” department, I offer you the following.
Yesterday, based upon the enormous and well-formed topping pattern in UPS, I decided to buy October $150 puts. I then noticed yesterday that UPS reported earnings this morning (if you need some help with the relationship between yesterday and today, I direct you to Ms. Harris), and that made me a little nervous, so I trimmed back my position a bit out of nothing but cowardice.