F, TLT (bonds)

It looks like Ford has completed shaking out weak holders (and traders with stops, including us).  This is a breakout and we'd put a money management stop about 5% down.…

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All that glitters…

We are partially hedging our gold positions with GLL as this looks like negative developments to us.  More patient traders will observe the Basing Point stop at 110.25.

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Heads up. Head and shoulders? Does it matter?

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p30009483985&a=203282118 We sometimes admonish (also abjure, berate, harass and warn) our graduate students about finding bunny patterns in the clouds in their initial enthusiasm for identifying patterns.  Being the world's…

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Is it over yet? S&P, F, C, BAC

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=0&mn=6&dy=0&id=p69418865904&a=2032821185 This is beginning to have the feeling of a Kilroy (H&S) bottom.  Today's surge powered across a signal line. Now.  Careful.  The nature of signals is this:  In trending…

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