Not good enough risk/reward

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  • on November 15th, 2011

We sent this off to our subscribers (in the newsletter) after the close today:

 

Usually we’d be in anticipation swing mode right now — that is, putting on positions that we think will hit tomorrow.   We held off as we didn’t like the risk/reward as we found good arguments for both sides.
 
For the bears: 

 
1. We don’t have enough set-ups we love — it really is still slim pickings.  However, once we break through the range this will change fast.
 
2.  The volume is atrocious.  Note how the Euro  ($6E_F) is doing nothing (i.e. not confirming today’s rally) — and currency traders (also bond and commodity) tend to be more “right” than equity traders.     Equity traders running up the market on no volume for a Thanksgiving rally.
 
3.  One of our favorite “tells” , the Ags ($POT $MOS $AGU) , are doing nothing and look terrible.  
 
4. The “solution” to the Euro mess will likely involve money printing so why are gold/silver stalling?
 
For the bulls:
 
1.  The resilience of this market is astounding.   No matter how bad the news, and yields surging in France this morning was pretty dismal, the bulls buy the dips.     This is a huge point.
 
You take all these arguments together and what happens is it puts us on the side-lines.    The risk of a break-out head-fake we believe is too high for us to anticipate anything right now.    There will be easier markets to trade and this certainly isn’t one of them.
 
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