SP 500 Daily Chart: The Silence of the Turkeys

While Americans were celebrating their Thanksgiving Day holiday, the rest of the world gobbled 40 points from the December SP 500 futures.

Bears are doing high fives and the serial top callers are rolling.

Let’s see if the correction will continue after the pilfering pilgrims are back on their prop desks.

Then again, maybe the Reverend Lloyd is just bringing in the sheaves. Why waste a crisis?

Up the trend, then down again. Trend is the trend, until it is not.

This *could* be the November selloff that was expected. Le Prop is on the short side to an acceptable degree. It could be a short ride, and so not taking it heavily short until we break this trend.

Until that point we either buy weakness and sell strength within the trends, or sit on our hands and do nothing.

Why is gold selling off, isn’t it supposed to rise in times of crisis? Well, it did, and quite impressively, in the past week or so, in anticipation of this major failure in the world of paper finance. And now there is selling on the news.

Those who look for a one to one linear correlation between action and reaction will be sadly disappointed and confused, because that is not how the game is played by the banks. They trade in information, in dark pools and private whispers, and the dollars are the means of keeping score.

This is why timing buys and sells is so difficult, especially in hotly speculative markets like the US equity market, just for an example, because the game you are allowed to see on the table is not necessarily the one that is really being played. So better to play the long trends, where the short term does not matter.

But all is not lost. We still have a feeling that the word has gone out from Timmy to Lloyd that the puppies will not buy their puppy chow if the markets are gloomy, and this is why we are in a flat to rising trend in stocks.

Keep in mind that there is always an up and down movement within the trends, especially those whose action is artificial. We are nearing the downstroke on the charts on the overnight trade, which catches most small players unable to adjust and set up to take losses both in the running of their stops, and the severe adjustment from panic selling on the open.

So that’s our play, but if we break the trend, well, it’s a nice time to be in that safe harbor after all.

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