President Obama's Baby

The President takes great pride in Saving Detroit.  He did it by allowing anyone with a pulse to buy a car on Credit.  They are now defaulting in great numbers, and is close to the 2008 levels.  When this door closes, the economy will suffer some serious losses.

My Long Logic

A Decision Has Been Made

It sure apears that front running the Fed's March meeting is the play.  for me that means I drop my short positions, take the loss and go long high beta (LABU), and oil (UWTI).  I will also buy some DUST as risk on means slam gold.

I will continue to monitor DAG, as well.  I will post entries and stops for my subscribers via Twitter.

Hard Resistance?

Last week was a tough one for me.  My father passed away and they live 3000 miles away.  So I was distracted from the markets  a bit.  But I am now back.

I went short on Tuesday day, after riding the reversal for three days.  I left those trades on, those being SDS, TVIX, and SRS.  The week after OPEX is usually weak.

Strategically:

Two things are going to happen; either we (the market) decides to front run the Federal Reserve anticipating them folding and blast through 195, or force the Fed to fold by driving the market lower than 181.

I think a case can be made in either direction.

The short case says 194/5 can't be broken even with driving the most shorted to cover, oil shorts to cover, and vol longs to sell.  The Yen is breaking higher again, as well.

On the long side, Biotech is firming up, as well as Gold and the miners suggesting major liquidity is forthcoming.

Monday's have been red of late, and if so I will set stops on my shorts, if Green I will take my losses and wait for a better setup and go long LABU.

I am also interested in taking another run at DUST

I added DAG to my watch-list as I think food prices will run with any new liquidity injected into the markets.

Reversal in Process

After Thursday's hard push down was rejected, we rallied Friday over the hourly 22 EMA, which also happened to flip positive slope.  This tells me to respect a reversal.  We caught the reversal with a short vol and a long Biotech trade, and are still holding.  We'll see where this peters out.

I expect there will be a raid on gold and silver, and I had a sell signal that was rejected Friday for no gain/loss, but will reenter short if it sets up again.  I m bullish on the PM's but that move was too far and too fast and tempting for the robots to short.

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Enjoy the week ahead.

Just Waiting on Yellen

We are having our predictable push into the Humprey Hawkin meetings.  Unless she is explicit on easing we will continue the trend down.  For now, pretty light,  short the Energy producers and temporarily short GDX.   I am looking to short IWM and SPY soon.  Likely to use SDS, TVIX, and TWM as the vehicles.

Also, as I was under the weather and super bowl last weekend, I did not update my results.  They are below.

We're Turning Japanese, I Really Think So

The second breakout attempt of 2016 has just failed.  It failed at the 50% retrace line, and broke back below the 38% line.  That is around the 191.50 area.  That should prove difficult to move higher though on this go around.  If 187.70 area fails we can expect a move back below 180 area.

The cause for alarm this time is Japan.  Believe it or not the market did not think Japan went negative enough.  Japan is in a deflationary collapse, and all of their efforts to reflate are not working.  Essentially they are running out of ways to arbitrate the interest rate differentials, and when you go negative, it is like quantum physics, the rules change.  Instead of forcing borrowing and credit creation which causes the inflation they want people and businesses simply leave the banking system and the country.  That is a big problem for them, and the rest of the world as it drives deflation worldwide.

We now have the three largest trading nations/blocs, all exporters, with negative interest rates or rapidly devaluing their currencies, or both.  This will crush the profit margins of our multi-nationals due to currency,  and our domestic companies through price dumping into our shores.

Remember growth cannot separate from interest rates, and margins follow growth, and stock prices follow cash flow.  All of this brought to you by the smartest people in the room.  This will not end well.  Cash, Gold, and Treasuries are the safe havens this year.