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Patience Young Grasshopper

Game Plan – Highly Selective Market Swings via ETF Baskets. Basket Trading is the ONLY THEME for FEBRUARY (or until correlations break 1). Campaign – Searching for a successful test of S2′s, watching for major break through Nov. lows. PRIORITY- VIX double bottom. Watch spread between VIX and Variance Futures Week of Feb. 02 WED:Looking [...]

XHB: Home Builders Top Holdings for Traders

Help Investment Capitalist Cover Costs

It’s not free running a free blog, much less something like a Proprietary Trading site based on Global Macro financial research. Every reader knows that they get something out of the site and for each reader it’s unique. Some like the geo-political twists, some purview based on Quantitative Global financial research. While most of you [...]

Strategy Update….

After market euphoria turned into pre-market despair with MSFT spoiling the party. We made new lows but internals became bullish around lunch time.  Looking for successful test of 815 in S&P.  Bullish posture still stands, trade SKF for cash flow and hedging.

June Swoon in Equity Markets?

The SPX bottomed 3/6/09 at 666, and has never looked back, as the index galloped into the longest buying stampede in decades. Major indices are in the process of forming an intermediate “top” with insiders selling like mad. At the same time, many of the leading groups are breaking below their relative strength support levels. [...]

Trading Ideas for Week of December 1

Week of December 1 FRI:Can we bring on order mgmt. clerks to serve as my trading assistants? This would allow me to fully exploit my research. SPX likely headed for 800 then 760 IF 844 is broken decisively. JPM closed just above lower boundary of broadening d/t channel and above short-term downtrend suggesting rally could [...]

Capitalist Socialism and the Net Net of It All

The largest share redistribution of the country’s financial companies is about to take place right before our very eyes. This is the final crescendo of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Massive share sales of the strongest banks that are standing right now. .. All of a sudden, showing strength for the past several weeks and [...]