Thursday, August 24, 2006

The calm before the storm.










Breakout, buy. Breakdown, sell.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Equity or Debt?

After 3+ years of outperformance of the $SPX v. the 30-year bond, stocks are on the verge of breaking down and beginning a trend of underperformance v. the long bond. Buyer beware.

Synchronicity...









The emerging markets are weakening. Will the EEM lead the markets down as happened last May?

The train left without us...

Despite last week's rally, the momentum did not spread as the "hottest 100" momentum stocks barely participated. Is this a negative divergence implying more weakness ahead?

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Long way down?



Despite the recent rally, stocks (using $SPX as proxy) still remain on the high-end vis-a-vis the $VIX. Historically, the ideal buy point for the $SPX has been 25x $VIX. Should $SPX 1000 be your downside target?

 

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