Back to the Bottom (of the range)
- Posted by Leigh Drogen
- on December 8th, 2009
I’ve been warning you for a few weeks now that momentum in the market has stalled out. Many weekly time frames were looking ripe for a pull back if not a complete end to the rally, see $AAPL. Market leaders have been slowing getting picked off, one by one, like apples from a tree. Traders started to make calls of a melt up once again, every time that happens we get a pull back. Dubai shook us up a little, then we saw a few bear traps above important resistance, and now this morning. I’m not trying to blow the situation out of proportion, we are only down 90 basis points on the $ES_F at 8:45 AM the time I write this. But we are trading below important support at 1098 and the 20 day moving average. I am very confident that we now move down toward 1077 which is the location of the 50 day moving average.
The US Dollar sits at a major cross roads this morning, located right on the 50 day moving average. In my opinion it will decide which way we move out of this range in equities. I believe we’ve seen an intermediate term low in the $USDX.
My momentum book is +30% cash and my only trading position is in $GLD which I will hold until it makes a new 20 day low. Continue to trade small until the market shows its hand.
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Leigh Drogen is the founder and chief investment officer of Surfview Capital, LLC, a New York based investment management firm employing an intermediate term long/short momentum strategy. More »
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