This Week in Trading. The bounce in the markets we expected last week arrived. We closed out the short positions we established on 04 April, 2022. We closed SQQQ for a gain of +68%, TZA +45%, and SPXS +38%. We noted that we were about to pass through a significant storm in the markets at […]
The 17th Week of Trading 2022. Holding short positions, especially leveraged short positions, is like holding a tiger by the tail. Great fun until you get savaged. We’ve been short with leverage of all the major indices in the United States since April 4th, 2022. Despite our warning last week to rig for stormy weather,
The 16th Week of Trading 2022. The 16th week of trading started off optimistically for market participants. At the same time, we at the impartial lens were busy furling the sails, battening down the hatches, and tightening up our stops. It was all plain sailing for the markets into mid-morning on Thursday, all indices moving
The 15th Week of Trading 2022. The shortened week of trading started badly for US markets and ended badly. All US indices were down on the week, the tech-heavy Nasdaq suffering the most, down almost -4%. The European markets performed well last week, with the UK’s FTSE 100 up +0.85%, French CAC 40 up +1.98%,
The 14th Week of Trading 2022. After an initial surge in US equities to begin the trading week, the attempt to breach the wall of moving averages failed. The rest of the week saw all US indexes trade lower into Friday’s close, with cryptocurrencies leading the way, except Monero., Monero had an exceptional week of
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This piece was originally written in March 2013 but is even more relevant now as we enter into uncertain times in 2020. “If I have seen further it, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Isaac Newton “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from
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