Archive for the ‘S&P 500’ Category

Closing Into A Short-Covering Rally

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I made the best (relatively speaking) of a bad situation.  I disobeyed my slow stochastics indicators on Monday when they were all indicating that I should have gotten out of the short-term puts I was in.  Plus, we were in the third day of a three day down leg.  I ...

Possible Retracement Levels

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

1360ish on the S&P would be the top of the fairly recent descending trendline.  Fed day is coming up next week.  0.835 to 0.840 on the NZDCHF should also indicate a top to this bear market rally I will be looking to get short again at those points. A graph from 2sweeties.

Kicked In The Teeth

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

The DJIA's 400+ move to the upside today confirmed my worst fear in that a Fed intervention could rob those of us who are short in this market.  Basically, Bernake dropped a $200 billion gift on the market this morning and caused widespread pain amongst the bears (me being one ...

1320 = S&P 500 Floor

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The 1320 mark continues to serve as a pseudo floor for the $SPX. Intraday today, it hit 1320.04 and bounced right back up off of it. Very frustrating. Should this floor continue to hold, we should probably see a rally back up to the 1385 level on ...