President Obama comes back early from holiday and everyone
"hopes" this means a deal is imminent. But the market is a
psychological machine that currently has all this euphoria adding up to
+3handles yesterday morning and -5handles on the day…because of that news? The
early morning strength just didn’t add
up if youre not wearing the christmas-rose colored glasses.
Technically the broad market suffered some real damage last week. Friday 12/21 was the heaviest volume selloff in the SPY since the reversal bottom on 11/16. High volume is typically a sign of a reversal especially after a strong selloff (sep 14th to nov 16th selloff was 8%) or after a strong rally (nov 16th to dec 18th rally was ~8%). My take, looking through monetarily or psychologically unbiased glasses, is that the broad market is in trouble. Anyone in this business for a while knows the "hope" trade never works and reality is what you see...not what you think.
Having said all that on the day after christmas (sorry to be such a scrooge) it is clear to see i am leaning very bearish. The announcement of a fiscal cliff deal, in my view, will be one of the biggest "sell the news" events of the year. On the way down, 1400 will be good psychological support and the first battleground followed by 1370/80 and then the area surrounding the November lows near 1340/50. The only thing that will change that view is a high volume broad market rally over the September highs of 1452.
Technically the broad market suffered some real damage last week. Friday 12/21 was the heaviest volume selloff in the SPY since the reversal bottom on 11/16. High volume is typically a sign of a reversal especially after a strong selloff (sep 14th to nov 16th selloff was 8%) or after a strong rally (nov 16th to dec 18th rally was ~8%). My take, looking through monetarily or psychologically unbiased glasses, is that the broad market is in trouble. Anyone in this business for a while knows the "hope" trade never works and reality is what you see...not what you think.
Having said all that on the day after christmas (sorry to be such a scrooge) it is clear to see i am leaning very bearish. The announcement of a fiscal cliff deal, in my view, will be one of the biggest "sell the news" events of the year. On the way down, 1400 will be good psychological support and the first battleground followed by 1370/80 and then the area surrounding the November lows near 1340/50. The only thing that will change that view is a high volume broad market rally over the September highs of 1452.
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