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COMMENTARY for Friday
TODAY'S ACTION for Friday
Rick's Picks for Friday
Despite the bearish rant in today’s commentary, the stock was in a minor uptrend projecting to 173.82 at the cl0se, provided it can get past a lesser resistance at 172.69. I’d suggest shorting any ‘D’ rally target on the 15-minute chart with a very tight stop, however, since the stock looks like it’s no longer easily capable of inflicting much pain on bears.
December Gold appeared to be struggling Thursday night to seize the advantage afforded by its breach of a midpoint resistance at 1142.80. The sibling target is 1155.60, and we should therefore use that Hidden Pivot as a minimum rally objective for the near term. Alternatively, a dip below 1125.2o today — unexpected at the moment, based on the technical evidence — would turn the hourly chart bearish.
The futures had a fabulous chance to fall apart yesterday, since they were weaker than we’ve seem them on any day since Halloween. Instead, on the hourly chart, the weakness could not penetrate even a single prior low “along the wall” of the last rally. This suggests to me that although there is not enough buying power to move the S&Ps to the next rally target (1132.25), there is even less enthusiasm for hard selling. Friday nuttiness could change this dynamic, but bulls needn’t stir from their sleep unless 1102.25 is exceeded. To the downside, 1073.75 is still where trouble begins. There’s a midpoint support on the way down at 1087.75 (D=1080.25), but it looks too close to some prior lows to be of value for bottom-fishing.
I was unable to work up much enthusiasm for bottom-fishing in the E-Mini S&P, but this vehicle looks somewhat more appealing, since a midpoint support at 10269 occurs, so to speak, in the middle of nowhere. You can bottom-fish via a 10271 bid, stop 10264, good till noon EST. ______ UPDATE (1:27 p.m.): This is the sloppiest action I can recall, going back months — a market adrift. The expected bounce from 10269 lasted all of five minutes, stopping out longs with a $70 trading loss.
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Goldman Weakness a Noose Around Bulls’ Necks
by Rick Ackerman on November 20, 2009 8:16 am GMT · 15 comments
In a moment, I’ll get to the deadness of Goldman shares and the fatal implications this may hold for U.S. stocks. But first let me share with you a link to “The Day the Dollar Died,” an extraordinary (and scary) script for a day that is probably coming. The author is a blogger named John Galt, and he has described in detail what will happen when the dollar collapses. Readers of these commentaries will know that we expect this to happen in mere hours, not weeks or months. Galt’s scenario, as the title suggests, plays out so swiftly that » Read the full article