Thursday, February 26, 2009

Still on the lookout for the Hulk.

Here is how an Incredible Hulk type rally can develop. It starts with some slight green on the screen...therefore the longs are not getting stopped out of their positions. Then some cash comes off the sidelines to start accumulating sending shares higher still. Shorts don't believe it and short some more but it doesn't work and stocks rally...this triggers stops from those short stocks. Individuals then stop calling the mutual fund companies with redemptions every day. Sellers stop selling because things are finally coming back. The trillions of $ on the sidelines starts to get itchy and coming in to buy. The fast money hedge funds see it going up so they are buyers instead of sellers. When does this scenario start to develop? It has nothing to do with news flow...we had a 1500 point rally a couple months ago when the news was still bad.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Looking for the Incredible Hulk

  • As the meltdown continues - the S&P is now down 170 straight points (18%) and has been down 6 of the last 7 weeks, I am getting more and more invested for a counter trend rally (this week?). A hint of a potential rally appeared Friday as many stocks underneath the surface performed well despite another -100 day for the Dow. That being said...it is important to have stops in place just in case. There is a significant rally ahead...when and from where is the hard part.
  • The reason I am accumulating on the way down is because I sense the Incredible Hulk may show up and things get so green, so fast there will be no way to get in without prices having already moved so much.
  • I bought some April calls on the S&P 500 on Friday.
  • The parade of bearish guests on CNBC is simply amazing to me. I know this is a scary time, I feel it too, but can every bear be so right for so long without being tested at some point?
  • It is very weird seeing the majority not being able to imagine things will get better ever again. I am not being a Pollyanna, I see the negativity...and the reasons for it that is causing the incredible media coverage all over, I read it all day every day just like you do. I just wonder if the worst case scenario that is now so widely discussed is the most likely outcome of if prices at least reflect much of the reality already?