I See… Dead Stocks

Even though last week looked and felt like a great week I’m going with the thesis that this move is a dead cat bounce and an opportunity to put out some shorts. There were a lot of shooting stars made on Friday. Many of them were caused by stocks failing to hold above their middle [...]

Reversal of Fortune

We certainly had an action packed day on Friday. The market was already flashing signs of a reversal, based on all the bearish candlesticks I mentioned Thursday night. It looks like Intel’s news may have provided the spark to exhaust this latest rally attempt. We had a textbook one-day reversal on Friday, and all the [...]

Expired

Well the market certainly had a change of character today. For the last 3 months or so, bad news has been treated as good news, and good news has been treated as great news. Well today we got selling on decent economic news. Not only that, but the bulls weren’t able to gun ‘em in [...]

QQQ/NDX Bearish Engulfing

I noticed yesterday that the NDX/QQQ was a bit weaker than the NASDAQ as a whole. CNBC just did a piece on the bearish engulfing pattern made by the NDX yesterday. They did this while showing a line chart, instead of a candlestick chart (WTH?). So I thought I’d post the candle version. Here it [...]