Thursday, January 25, 2007

1-25-07 Summary and Plan

Today's action:
  1. Nasdaq closed 1.3% lower to 2434, with a bearish engulfing.
  2. ^VIX shot up 13% from historical low in recent weeks, which usually indicates a market top and major trend reversal. But the timing is always tricky and can be early for a few weeks. Like a month ago, it also shot up when Nasdaq closed sharply lower.
  3. QID closed up 2.4%. Looks like the market is tired and ^VIX's action indicates that we're near the market top. The great run since last June maybe over.
  4. Tomorrow market's reaction to earnings, such as MSFT, will tell us more about the market direction. BTW, the up trends in Nasdaq, S&P 500 since last June are still intact, unless Nasdaq can break below 2400 with huge volume, bulls still can claim it's a consolidation, not a major correction.
  5. RIMM down to 127. As I mentioned yesterday, it went down from triple tops and 13 EMA crossed 50 EMA, it's just a matter of time it will go down to the 100 area.
  6. PM shares, GG,AEM,GLD closed down 1-2%, but looks like consolidation.
  7. Silver shares, SSRI and PAAS closed down less than 1%, and it may pull back since both have a great run recently.
  8. USO,OIH and XLE all closed sharply lower. Yesterday's reaction was over and back to basics: economy maybe slowing, and as a result, oil demand should lighten up as well.

Plan:

  1. Watch PM shares, will not add unless there is a 3-5% pullbacks in GG and AEM. May even consider take partial profit on SSRI and PAAS.
  2. Watch QQQQ, will not add QID unless it decisively turns lower.
  3. Add RIMM Jan 2008 put on any big bounce.
  4. Won't touch energy shares for now.
  5. Will watch FXI, if it shoot back up, may consider buy a put option.

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