Any bears still aggressively pressing into this are playing with fire IMO - you know what they say about hogs... Edit: Intermediate term, short...
Shorts will try to jam it back down, but I think the easy money on the short side (intermediate term) has been made...risk definitely increasing...
Positive divergences all over the place...
Couldn't agree more Spec
Myself and several others have posted that we are starting to accumulate at these levels - just b/c people aren't making threads screaming about...
Commercials are massively net long while specs are massively net short...something to think about (hint: at the 2000 top it was just the opposite).
I am as well. Panic on multiple levels - retail running for the hills (check mutual fund flows), hedgies liquidating, etc, etc. Short-term...
I agree. I am more bullish than bearish here. Sentiment has gotten out of control bearish lately. Remember the top in 2000? Nearly everyone was...
You can almost cut the negativity out there with a knife - hell even Cramer has turned into a bear!!! I think we are closer than not to an...
Multiple hedge funds (esp "market neutral") are in distress right now and liquidating positions causing dislocations in various areas - probably...
Mainly due to all the "smart" money getting crushed...the fact that ordinary investors are getting hurt too brings me no pleasure. I'm not...
Lots of hedgies getting raped, which I do find mildly amusing :)
Hedgies under stress likely the cause of widening spreads - they could go wider still depending on how things go.
Lots of Chicken Littles on here...lol... If the world financial system truly is failing then all the money you make shorting won't be worth...
CNN.com Headline: Breaking News The Dow closes more than 300 points down -- one of its worst days this year. Fear really starting to...
The herd is scared...
Interesting times...no doubt about that :D
I wonder if she keeps her yard well trimmed... :D
Lots of people leaning on the market here...ramp higher in the cards??? :confused:
Agree. XLF is a crowded short and subject to massive whipsaw.
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