Depression Beater Portfolio: - see below - Updates below
(This portfolio is just a sample of my own portfolio - no recommendation to others is implied or intended)
5/25/09 (Commentary for Monday) The SPX price pattern WAS NOT AN IMPULSIVE RALLY and this leaves the market open for more decline this week. However, the CORRECTIVE PATTERN on Friday appears to need a C-wave up on Tuesday and the OPR/MO buy signal on Friday argues for a strong rally tomorrow. Friday gave us a Large Divergent Rally on the Option Premium Ratio and a Big Move signal on the McClellan Oscillator (+1.69) - together this gives us an OPR/MO buy signal. However, 5/26 is also a Turning Point Day - so we would sell our short-term call positions by the close. A plunging dollar continues to levitate oil, gold and other commodities. Gold and silver and the HUI/XAU have advanced in a EW 5-wave pattern from the important 4/17 (Economic Pi Cycle lows) - we have also traveled a Fibonacci 34 days from those lows - some kind of pullback is likely early this week.
- Gold – Gold and the XAU/HUI has done 5-waves up from 4/17 - and has traveled a Fibonacci 34 days from the lows - should see a pullback early this week into the first week of June - but the weak dollar keeps propelling this market higher. We believe that a mania in gold stocks will be evident by fall as all the "bank reserves" added by panicked governments begins to appear in the M2 monetary statistics.
- Stock - The market correction from 5/8 through 5/21 was shallow but the corrective bounce on Friday implies more downside after a rally on Tuesday. Take profits on calls tomorrow and prepare for more downside.
- Silver – Silver finished an EW 5-wave advance from 4/17 - look for pullback into early June.
- Crude Oil – Oil's advance is being fueled by a weak dollar - a short-term peak was registered on the 5/20 Turning Point day - looking for another small leg down.
- Bonds - Bonds are close to finishing an EW zig-zag pattern from late December - 116 on the June bonds should be watched for a reversal up - especially if the broad market has more downside after Tuesday.
- Dollar - If the dollar finishes a 5-wave decline from 5/20 Tuesday, look to sell all June calls on stocks.
TURNING POINT DAY:
The next Turning Point Day is 5/26 - this looks like a potential rally high and a corrective high from Friday.
Depression Beater Portfolio: New Updates:
(This portfolio is just a sample of my own portfolio - no recommendation to others is implied or intended)
Holdings:
1) Long 75 shares of SDS at an average price of 103.2249 on 11/18 - roughly 15% of portfolio. (The SDS price was hit by a cash distribution today that I did not anticipate - $11.46 a share - sorry for the lack of warning here - ETFs like mutual funds have late in the year distributions that need to be avoided if possible if you're in a taxable account)
2) Long 200 shrs of CHK at $16.00 on 12/1.
SOLD 200 shrs of CHK @ $20.82 on 4/16/09
3) Long 2000 shrs of SNG at $1.20 on 12/2.
4) Long 1000 shrs of DXO (2 X long crude oil ETF) at $2.84 on 12/10
SOLD 1000 shrs of DXO at $2.97 on 4/17/09
5) Long 500 shrs of DRYS at $11.87 on 12/17
SOLD 500 shrs at $5.62 on 4/16/09
6) Long 500 shrs of AUY at $5.89 on 12/17
7) Long 1000 shrs of TCK at $4.50 on 12/19
SOLD 500 shrs at $8.77 on 4/16/09
SOLD 500 shrs at $8.30 on 4/21/09
8) Bought 100 shrs of TBT @ $37.50 on 12/31
SOLD 100 shrs of TBT @ $49.51 on 1/26/09
REPURCHASED 100 shrs of TBT @ $47.39 on 2/5/09
9) Bought 1000 shrs of NG @ $1.61 on 1/12/09
10) Bought 100 shrs of COP @ $49.01 on 1/16/09
11) Bought 200 shrs of AMSC @ $16.50 on 1/16/09
SOLD 200 shrs of AMSC @ $20.36 on 4/17/09
12) Bought 2000 shrs of HL @ $1.80 on 2/6/09
13) Bought 1000 shrs of THM @ $2.08 on 2/9/09
Working orders:
1) Buy 500 shrs of AUY @$5.00 GTC (raised from $4.00)
2) Buy 1000 shrs SLW @$5.00 GTC (raised from $4.60)
Working orders:
1) Buy 500 shrs of AUY @$5.00 GTC (raised from $4.00)
2) Buy 1000 shrs SLW @$5.00 GTC (raised from $4.60)