Sell Rosh Hashanah and Buy On Yom Kippur ?

My sense is from a market timing perspective is that we are coming into some very interesting weeks ahead here closer to mid September.  I previously mentioned that there exists a triple bearish divergence in the S&P500.  These bearish divergences in a bullish uptrend can drag on for what seems like an eternity sometimes. But … Read more

Spot Gold Closes Over 1000 Again

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If you take a close look at the chart above you can clearly see that the spot gold price has successfully broken above the longer term down trendline since this mini bear market in gold started in March of 2008.

Despite this bullish action there is still a lot of talk that gold will break down again and maybe go to 850 or somewhere near that level.

I have a hard time believing that at this point.  I would rather just trust this simple chart which is saying to me that a successful break of the bearish downtrend has occurred and so now it should be assumed that we should eventually get continuation to the upside and probably at a faster speed than usual because there is zero resistance on the left side of the chart above 1034.

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I Screwed up the UAUA UAL Corporation Trade

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I hope this post does not turn into a rant.  I screwed up and missed the UAUA trade yesterday and it has been bothering me all day today.  I didn’t even bother to write up the possible scenario here at BestOnlineTrades and maybe that is partly why I screwed up the trade because I did not talk myself through the necessary parameters of this trade.

Two days ago I did my usual scans of almost 5000 nasdaq and NYSE stocks and nothing was coming up in my scans.  Nothing good was coming up anyway and so I was getting discouraged.  Also I have been somewhat off center lately because I have been confusing my own forecasts with that of other’s who are looking for market crashes and big downside.  I am not blaming others for my own general confusion now, I am just saying me dipping my hands into the cookie jar of other’s market forecasts has messed up my own judgement.  That is just a fact.

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What is the Current Trading Psychology?

In a word. Thoroughly confused.  I can still see the broad market trending higher maybe even for the rest of September.  The price action continues to show little interest in breaking down.

What is bothering me is that I started following Larry Pesavento’s forecasts recently and he keeps talking about a big market drop that is supposed to happen soon and happen suddenly and that will eventually break the March lows.  It has screwed up my own psychology of the markets because I have been generally bullish and am still seeing enough bullish setups in individual stocks.  The market still has not given signs it wants to start a major downward trend change yet.  So why try to pick a top?  It just seems fruitless at this point.

The monthly SPY price bar so far rejected the lows and now appears to want to expand topside.  To be sure, when the REAL correction comes it will come suddenly and a good portion of the damage will happen in a matter of hours.  But until that point comes I am still bullish on this market!

The entire rally we have had since the March lows has been on lighter and lighter volume.  This is a warning that eventually a nasty correction will start but the problem comes in trying to pick a top.  Low volume rallies can seemingly last forever sometimes.

There is a gap on the SPY ETF that would be filled if the SPY hits 107.41.  It is possible we are going to go up there and fill that gap in the days ahead and then turn around from there.  107.41 is not that far from where we are today on the SPY.

I am also seeing a possible triple bearish divergence developing on the SPY ETF.  It will probably take another week or two to develop but it is worth keeping an eye on.

In the meantime I am still focusing in on ABK because I think ABK at least has the chance of being a blockbuster trade, maybe even better than the gold and silver breakout.  I like gold and silver but the problem is those markets can take forever to move.  I want to try to find something that moves soon and moves big.

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SLV Silver ETF does a Confirmed Breakout from Inverse Head and Shoulders

The SLV ETF did a confirmed breakout from the large inverse head and shoulders pattern that has been forming for quite a long time. This is significant because it is basically saying that silver should now be in a new longer term uptrend. The breakout was achieved with a confirmed sign of strength in price … Read more