Sunday, January 5, 2020

Missiles & drone attacks to impact trading.....

When all Indices were making series of new all time highs, a drone attack disrupted this uptrend.

Market will and should wait for retaliatory attacks and counter attacks which may become norm.

War of words and missiles will dominate news....

Tweets will get uglier by minute and action may follow....

How market takes this is yet to be seen.....

Market has to figure out " how much is rhetoric and how much is reality "

While we wait for verdict .......

Indices are comfortably near all time highs...

Here is the picture of RSI :

S&P 500        65.74

Nasdaq          68.27

DOW            62.20

SOX             62.68

IWM            61.61

XLE             66.35

GLD            81.90

Analysis of above tells me that GLD is overbought and rest of market is buyer friendly healthy....

Any dip or pullback needs to be dealt with patience or strategic buying for swing trading.

We have entered an era of uncertainty and volatility short term.....we just have to watch what develops in International arena......

I have a strong feeling that Trump strategy will fail miserably this time and will be counter productive.....thus good for market.

Good luck with your own interpretation of non market driven events and your own comfort level.

BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.

Saleem

6 comments:

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hi Saleem,

Trimmed SOXS @ 21.83

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

Sold AMRN $20.64

Bought MRVL @ $25.98

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hi Saleem,

Last week: +2.27% (YTD: +0.60%)
Notable Winners: PSNL AVLR DDOG
Notable Losers: PS

It was a great shortened week as I positioned with some key individual winners, but also found success in some short exposure. The market has started the year with some volatility, but that should provide opportunity as well.

Current Portfolio: FAZ (25%), PLAN SOXS AVLR DDOG CSOD PS MOMO PSNL, cash 8.1%

Stocktrader

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hi Saleem,

I do find the underperformance of the Russell 2000 curious considering the small caps often see the best flows in the new year.

Stocktrader

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hi Saleem,

Good luck with the swap to MRVL--semis on this pullback seem the right call!

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...


Hi Stocktrader,

Last week UP .61%

YTD UP .61%

Saleem