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COMMENTARY for Thursday
TODAY'S ACTION for Thursday
Rick's Picks for Thursday
The futures dove hard yesterday afternoon after rallying moderately. The Wall Street Journal was hard-pressed to explain it, but we know better, since a purely technical target at 1074.50 that was proffered here very nearly marked the top. The decline may have jolted some traders, but in Hidden Pivot terms it achieved nothing of interest on the hourly chart. A print down at 1047.50 was needed to turn the hourly chart bearish, but panicky sellers could muster only 1055.25. As of early Wednesday evening, there were no compelling spots to try bottom-fishing. A midpoint support at 1055.75 was too close to the intraday low, although its ‘d’ sibling at 1051.25 might be serviceable if you’re bored enough to force the trade.
Bid 2.05 for two November 95 puts (DAVWQ), day order. That’s about what they should sell for if the Diamonds trade as high as yesterday’s opening price, 98.36. Stocks seemed too spooked at the close to suggest that that much of a recovery is likely, but DaBoyz will be doing their best to unload at at least somewhat higher levels, since they too were caught by surprise.
I want to reiterate the 192.91 target, which looks as promising as ever (see chart), notwithstanding the fright-wig plunge into the close. We took a close look during yesterday’s tutorial session and saw a ripening short, presumably using out-of-the-money puts in the October series.
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Take any dozen good reasons for being bearish right now and they still don’t equal the bullishness of the chart shown. The undeniably compelling rally objective is 13085, a 4.8% move from current levels, and one can only surmise that the dusting the 12158 midpoint received on the last pullback (12/28) all but clinched a finishing stroke to the higher number. Moreover, it implies that bears shouldn’t get their hopes too high even if, in the next few days, the Dow plummets 324 points to retest the midpoint support. As of now, that would signal not weakness, but a screaming opportunity to get long. Hard to believe, really, but that’s what the charts say.
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Will Gold Be the Turd in G-20’s Punchbowl?
by Rick Ackerman on September 24, 2009 12:01 am GMT · 9 comments
With a glower of contempt toward the bankers, gold remains easily aloft above $1000, developing thrust for the next big move. We wrote here a while back that blast-off from $1000 would follow the realization that G-20 can do nothing to restore stability to the world’s tottering financial system. Now, the question is whether anything at all will be “realized” in the wake of the Pittsburgh meeting. We hesitate to call it a summit because the event seems to have slipped off the news media’s radar. Unable to recall the actual » Read the full article