Quote from MidKnight:
I don't think he would be invalidating anything if he agreed, it's just that AMT doesn't seem to act on this information. This thread is about cum delta and ways to interpret the data. It is the only logical assumption I can make about what the data is telling us about the market in these situations. Do you have a different theory?
With kind regards,
MK
I appreciate your post...
and you are right about two things...
1. AMT says there is NOT always a divergence before a trend move...
but to get a real trend up move a lasting up move their usually needs to be a divergent CDV support base with initiating buying inventory built up in it over a 4 point level that becomes an buy inventory level... i don't see where we got that...
2. and your right its a very tough call on what actually happened Friday in the last 7 minutes before the 4pm Eastern close...
Was it index re balancing, end of the month window dressing or was it Goldman and company running programs with Guv's money
(
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/04/goldman-sachs-principal-transactions_23.html) to keep moving the market higher so banks can get private money through buying of their large secondary offerings...
or was it a combo of all three...
the last (GS and Guv money) is what i favor the most... which would make a mockery of the the existing intraday volume profile and volume distribution - which it did... as in nonsensical.. and create a stop hunting upthrust spike into the close.. and print a Dow high (8500.33) for the public to see over the weekend to increase public consumer confidence...
as in whatever it takes...if you have a Guv who can abrogate legal corporate laws as they are doing in the GM case then why can't they be also ridiculous in the stock market...
you cannot predict this... the when of that...
and you can do this if you buy billions of dollars in notional value in SP futures a few minutes before the close as equity liquidity is decreasing to almost zero at the same time (since its a Friday close)... and the futures will drive the indexes higher...
even if i am right... and its just another 2cents on my part... its really sad...