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July 3rd Watchlist

It is starting to feel like the melt higher is beginning. Some of the growth stocks and sector leaders saw some nice moves on an otherwise flat day, meaning big money is starting to chase the performance that is coming. Could be wrong, but getting ahead of the move may be a nice way to play things.

 

Earnings season starts monday, so maybe a somewhat quiet week. Today we have factory orders at 10am and a market close at 1pm. A possible uneventful day.

Will position myself with some more calls for Thursday Green Gap day. PCLN provided a nice move yesterday, LNKD surged and held its ground, and BWLD was flat.

Will be looking for more positions in those today. I will have a write up on BWLD this week, as I feel this is the next stock to really get some legs. With CMG losing its luster, BWLD should be the one to reap the rewards into earnings late July. $100 calls should be a nice play.

Also watching AAPL for the possible break of $600, where i think $610 would come very quick.

Stocks to watch today:

ISRG PCLN LNKD BWLD SHLD BBY AAPL

I wont be around too much today, so if i dont see you have a great 4th of July(if your from the US)

- Jimmybob

Shake n Bake

 

I have written countless times about the intervention in this market. How a retail trader can become brainwashed by the headline news, only to be blindsided by the 2-3%+ market squeeze ignited from some more can kicking by the powers that be.

One only need to look back to November 2011, to see the last time a floor was put into equities via the World Central Banks. This time it was Europe backstopping banks and it's countries serious debt issues. You see anyone talking about Spanish 10-year bond yields anymore and Spain's unsustainable debt level? Any more rumors of financial ruin for the eurozone?

The summer should provide for some quiet trading and a melt to the upside. There was some doubts to that thought 2 weeks back, when the market volume was telling of a possible break to the downside, but we remained bullish above the $SPY 127.90 level. 

Hope folks enjoyed the 'SHAKE", now it's time to "BAKE"

Happy Trading!

The Waterfall

How does that saying go? When it smells like shit, looks like shit, tastes like shit, and came out of an a^^hole... it probably is shit... right? Well yeah. So lets apply those adjectives to the world economy: little to no growth in developed economies, huge debt issues in europe, a slowing china economy, a U.S. fiscal cliff, along with political unrest and change in some of the emerging countries. The world economy sure as hell looks like shit and would probably would smell like shit if DEBT had an odor.

Amongst all the macro economic conditions, the markets has rallied off their lows from October of 2011. Has anything really changed since then? Well yes. What changed is that we learned the world Central Banks will continue to throw band-aids onto the wounds - tricks they learned from the 2008 crisis. While retail traders are fixated on the doom and gloom headlines on CNBC, big money is bidding up stocks, knowing they have a security blanket and a friend waiting to pick them up when they fall down.

If you have read this blog or followed this site for the last few months, you have seen I am a bear at heart, but short term bull. It comes from years of fighting the same thing folks are fighting now. Fighting a tape thats rigged, knowing there is some red button that gets pushed in some office at 3:30pm to protect the markets. Now with the advent of the high frequency traders, you have even more reason to be wary. You have computers trading anything but the fundamentals of the market. It is hard work being a bear, and quite honestly, you can feel a bit evil being one. It sometimes makes me feel like Jack Nicholson in  batman.

But here it is June 25th, 2012, and I think my market sentiment has started to change. Usually making money in the market comes from going against the grain. Buying when folks are selling, and selling when folks are buying. Puts now? Sell? Go short? Isn't that what everyone is saying? In a way, yes. But timing is where folks get things wrong. I was talking about SPY $127.75-127.90 as my line in the sand. We break that and I am full on BEAR... buy the ammo, get the canned goods, and run to a bomb shelter. Well not that serious, but enough to get me concerned.

Last thursdays action was the turning point for me. It looked like folks were 'UNLOADING" shares as opposed to "SELLING" shares. Of course we had our ramp up on friday on light volume, but it was not with conviction. Monday's action confirmed my fears. Looks like we will have some type of waterfall sell-off to $120-$122 in the SPY in the coming week or two. Again, if we hold SPY $127.75-$127-90, then we should be ok. But my gut says we have some acceleration of the selling we have seen, and the market will tumble.

Stay tuned for more analysis, and check out our watchlist before the open. Updated SPY chart below...

 

June 22 2012 Watchlist

Futures are green and the Vix is red here with 45 minutes to go to to open. We knew about the possible Moodys downgrade for months now, so to think it was one of the causes for the large sell off yesterday is interesting. Either way, yesterdays action seemed different then any of the sell-offs in may. Still somewhat a short term bull, but starting to question that sentiment. (SUBSCRIBERS ONLY)

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6-21 Watchlist

Yesterday was a volatile day, with big swings after the fed decision to extend Operation Twist until the end of the year. Figured the USD would get weaker, but it had held its ground, causing a sell off in Silver, Gold, and exacerbating the sell off in OIL. The VIX was down big even on the high volatility, meaning FEAR is leaving the market.

The fact that we are holding ground here is a also good sign IMHO – Just need some duct tape news from eurozone, and we can resume the bull run!

Some stocks to watch today:

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