Has the market topped or not? I am, in fact, inclined to think the latter. And yet...
Quite the gap lower today in the trend leader. And look at that volume! No fear? That's interesting. What was that you say, Chip Diller? Thank you, sir, what?
Hmmm. The decided trend lower in momentum (MACD) appears to have a lot of downside room remaining. So, it certainly looks like Chip could get what he's asking for.
Q: What do NASDAQ and my garden's tomato plants have in common?
A: Both are burgeoning with fruit ripe for harvest.
Oh, the underlying weakness hinted by McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index divergences!
Yet before the fruit falls from the vine an Oscillator bounce from current, decidedly sell-side momentum to a more balanced position probably is in order here. After all, money manager lemmings have been, in fact, diligently hedging long equity positions with Put options over the past two weeks as the market traded sideways. So, with one week until August expiration the question is whether there are players willing to press their bets, rolling forward position insurance to September?
And if two weeks insured proved fruitless (which today's trade did), then what's another week when a fool and his money has a hankering for chasing dead equity in a dream that sees de-leveraging as being good for stocks?
Revisiting an old post
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