tommorow's freefall

Quote from michaelscott:

Look at the Russell Growth vs. Russell Value today. The only thing holding things up now is growth. The SPX continues to chopl hasnt made a new high since June 4th (over a month ago). Sooner or later, it will give and $hort will equal dollars.



agree, I bought some UWM and today it has done nothing but trade sideways.
 
Quote from empee:

Hi,

I dont really see any reason for the market to stop selling till S&P 1490. If so, tommorow should be a big red maybe -200 DOW pts possible. Anyone thinking anything different? Its possible I suppose we consolidate tommorow and then dump the day after, but just curious as to why anyone thinks this is "a short term bottom".

At least at 1490 the S&P has held in the past.

This is why most people lose money in the markets. They think they can predict the market but they're often wrong, as is the case yet again.
 
We still need tommorow's prices to close. At that point if we dont see negative progress I will agree this call was incorrect.

We may potentially go retest but I dont think so. I think we test 1490 and then go higher.

Oddly, "devi" chimes in after the market closes. If I had been right, would he have posted? Its survivorship bias of negativity.

Lets see how we close tommorow, I'll gladly admit I am wrong if we see it push back thru 1530 and close there for a day or two. Otherwise I think we are heavily biased to testing out 1490.

Regardless, the call was for today to be down or tommorow, so if we dont see the negative progress tommorow my call is clearly wrong.
 
Quote from empee:

We still need tommorow's prices to close. At that point if we dont see negative progress I will agree this call was incorrect.

We may potentially go retest but I dont think so. I think we test 1490 and then go higher.

Oddly, "devi" chimes in after the market closes. If I had been right, would he have posted? Its survivorship bias of negativity.

Lets see how we close tommorow, I'll gladly admit I am wrong if we see it push back thru 1530 and close there for a day or two. Otherwise I think we are heavily biased to testing out 1490.

Regardless, the call was for today to be down or tommorow, so if we dont see the negative progress tommorow my call is clearly wrong.

My problem with my short position is that I am actually bullish NDX. I can't see how SPX and NDX can go in opposite directions. That is why I sold puts and am covering my stock as it goes up. I will cover everything if we go up more tomorrow.
 
Quote from Landis82 on 07-10-07 at 10:39pm:

Agreed.
Unfortunately here on ET there are a TON of threads and people that simply make "blah, blah, blah," predictions without any sort of methodology whatsoever.

For example, one could very well make a technical case that the simple .618% retracement of the recent rally up from the late June lows comes thru at 1503 and that the market will try and hold 1503 SPX and make a low in the next day or two which will then take the SPX back up to the 1534 area.

Ka-Ching!
:p
 
Why cant you see the NDX and the SPX going in opposite directions? The $SPX is a value oriented index with an average P/E of about 17 where as the $NDX is a growth oriented index with a P/E of 24. The total market has a P/E of about 18.

I am not bullish on the $SPX, but I am bullish on small/mid-cap growth stocks in general and the $NDX. The $SPX will chop, maybe go a little bit higher or go down, however, I would concentrate long positions on the real index which is the $NDX.

Quote from noddyboy:

My problem with my short position is that I am actually bullish NDX. I can't see how SPX and NDX can go in opposite directions. That is why I sold puts and am covering my stock as it goes up. I will cover everything if we go up more tomorrow.
 
hi,

i have to say my call was wrong. I was waiting for a larger pullback to get long and was only 10% long when the market took off.

Undoubtedly, because of the negativity survivorship bias of this site, this post will come up again rather than my myriad of correct calls.

In either case, congrats to all longs! (Since I'm essentially on the sideline)
 
Quote from empee:

hi,

i have to say my call was wrong. I was waiting for a larger pullback to get long and was only 10% long when the market took off.

Undoubtedly, because of the negativity survivorship bias of this site, this post will come up again rather than my myriad of correct calls.

In either case, congrats to all longs! (Since I'm essentially on the sideline)

Kudos for admitting you were wrong.
 
Triple top on the SPY. Wait one or two more days. You might be rgith.

When we saw a triple top on the Qs back in the start of the year, it resulted in disaster.
 
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