The short term indicators are now extremely oversold, much more than they were on Tuesday when I thought we'd see a bounce on Wednesday. Unless some even more dreadful news comes out over the weekend about the PIGS, it's looking like the market may in fact close higher Monday.
Need convincing? Check out this dramatic view of the daily VIX:
Over the last two weeks, the daily VIX has gone ballistic. This is a classic exponential rocket, crazier than what happened in January, or even anything in 2008 at the height of the Lehman panic. I suppose the VIX could go higher Monday, but the odds are against it on a purely technical level.
That said, the weekly Dow has broken below its latest regression trend channel and amazingly is still looking overbought on all the indicators. So my plan right now for next week is to buy on Monday for a few very short term trades, then wait for this correction or whatever it is to work itself out. I'm still 40% in cash but not in a big hurry to do any major shopping just yet. Last week hurt, but it was not as bad as it could have been. I was down 4.12% on the week but that still beat the Dow which is about all the positive spin I can generate.
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I tried to go long a small position on Friday too. But it got stopped out at breakeven. So I am planning to try again next week.
ReplyDeleteYou have very good patient and discipline. I have much to learn from you. It's been great reading about your bull-side perspective through Thursday's mess.
Thanks. One of the nice things about swing trading is that you don't have to have a heart attack over every crazy gyration in the market.
ReplyDeleteIt's not so much that I'm bullish as that I'm contrarian. And right now, everyone seems to be in Chicken Little mode. I don't believe he situation right now is any worse than in was in late 2008 or early 2009, and we all saw how that turned out.
Even so, the charts do not yet show an all-clear. We'll have to have a bit more patience and wait for a bullish candlestick to show up before buying. The nice thing is that we've fallen so far so fast that we won't be leaving much on the table by waiting.