Monthly Archives: December 2024

‘Massive’ Short Squeeze, Really?

December 21, 2024 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, LABD, LABD-24-21, SPBIO, XBI, ZeroHedge 1 Comment

Hey, Rocky! … Watch Me Pull Hyperbole Out of my Hat

The financial press says, on Friday, the shorts got slaughtered.

Is that true, or just more hyperbole?

To find out, we’ll take a look at the active short in biotech XBI, and see if there was a ‘slaughter’, or something more constructive.

Biotech XBI, Daily

The last post inferred, ‘there’s no end in sight’ (not advice, not a recommendation).

Is that still true?

A present, we have a channel (with center-line) whose sections are a Fibonacci multiple.

If the channel is still in effect and the next session does not decisively break to the upside, then we can see price action is testing and validation that right side.

The good part or scary part depending on one’s perspective, XBI is validating the ‘supply’ side of the channel (where selling occurs).

Way down lower, is the ‘demand’ side … way down.

Stay Tuned

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Biotech Down … No End In Sight

December 20, 2024 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, LABD, LABD-24-21, SPBIO, Wyckoff, XBI, XBI-24-01 Tags: , , , , 1 Comment

Parallel Channels

Moves that take years to develop, once started, can go on much longer than anyone would expect.

Depending on your viewpoint, biotech XBI, has been congesting sideways (in a range) from one-to-three years.

Either way, the current breakdown suggests the potential for a sustained down trend (not advice, not a recommendation).

Biotech XBI, Daily

Remember, Wyckoff said the market itself, will tell us what levels and trendlines are significant.

If the current (right-side) channel is valid, the market itself shows us a similar channel in the past.

Two things to note.

First: Record Volume

As far as known (source, TC2000), November 15th’s volume of 30.3 million, was the largest ever recorded for the XBI:

That’s ‘thirty-point-three’ (thirty-three), you can’t make this stuff up. 🙂

Second: Short Position

There were two attempts to short this market.

Trade: XBI-24-01

Actual, sell-short, closed with -0.40%, loss

Trade: LABD-24-21

Leveraged inverse fund LABD, currently open with +27.31%, profit (as of 9:02 a.m., EST).

Volatility & Leveraged Inverse

The objective is to trade short using LABD, for as long as practical (not advice, not a recommendation).

If the XBI begins to get volatile with wide swings and chop either up or down, slippage-decay on inverse funds becomes prohibitive.

LABD-24-21 may be exited at any time, without notice.

Stay Tuned

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The CarMax Question

December 19, 2024 By in Biotech, Car Questions Answered, Interest Rates, KMX, Real Estate, Russell 2000 Tags: , , , , 1 Comment

Something’s Not Right

If the future’s so bright for CarMax, with them beating estimates for earnings and revenue, link here, why did it sell-off immediately after the open?

Trading, (as of 12:20 p.m., EST) currently at 85.15, below well-established resistance.

As we’ve seen by now, relying on financial numbers, any numbers, is akin to a ‘snipe hunt’ (remember those?).

The prior update on KMX, said this:

“Let’s see if KMX, uses earnings as an ‘excuse’ for launch to 38.2% retrace level (or higher).”

Adding to that, we had ‘boots on the ground’, like this.

Now, based on price action, we have the potential ‘false breakout’, exactly as was forecast, link here (not advice, not a recommendation).

CarMax KMX, Weekly

The breakout appears to be failing or has failed already (not advice, not a recommendation).

With other markets in full-blown melt-down like biotech, real estate, interest rates and the Russell, it’s possible CarMax adds one more economic reality to the mix no matter what the ‘numbers’ say (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Silver/Gold Miners (crash) Channel

December 18, 2024 By in GDX, GDXJ, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, SILJ Tags: , , , ,

Unfolding Quickly

The past two months have seen the miners, GDX, GDXJ, SILJ, reverse down, hit a low, then upside test and now, reverse down again.

For years, the big picture analysis of this sector has been consistently bearish.

Sure, there we upside opportunities but the (more) dynamic moves were to the downside.

All of which, brings us to now.

Senior Miners GDX, Weekly

A sideways market is a bear market; that’s what we’ve had for over four years (not advice, not a recommendation).

A ‘terminating wedge’ taking a year to form has broken to the downside.

Then, an upward recovery (test), that reversed last week, continuing to the downside this week.

Looking to the left on the chart, we see the ‘repeating’ channel.

This notation shows a down-channel of this type has happened before. The market itself, has set its own precedent.

At this juncture, this week’s right -side channel line is declining at approximately -95%, annualized.

Decide for yourself if that type of trend constitutes a ‘crash’ (not advice, not a recommendation).

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All Jobs … ‘Fake’

December 17, 2024 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, LABD, LABD-24-21, SPBIO, Wyckoff, XBI Tags: ,

What’s The ‘Real’ Message

Like a scene out of Animal House, we have Tomfoolery going on with ‘official’ data, out of ‘reliable’ sources.

Turns out, at least in this case, the data’s fake.

Earlier in the year, we had 800,000 jobs. That was fake as well.

The message that most if not all have missed, is the market’s response to the fakery:

The markets have responded to revelations of fake data by doing … nothing. No wild swings, no major gaps lower or higher, nothing.

That’s the real message.

This site’s focused on what the market’s actually telling us, not what the (fake) financial press tries to tell us.

All of which, brings us to biotech.

Biotech Sector SPSIBI (SPBIO), Daily

We’re using ‘pure’ index (in this example) as the XBI, has minor differences, obscuring the Fibonacci sequence.

Price action’s consistent with establishing and confirming a right-side trend line (not advice, not a recommendation).

With that said, there has not been a new daily low … yet.

So, there’s still the possibility of breaking the downtrend (line) and morphing into something different.

Stay Tuned

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A Tale of Two Markets

December 16, 2024 By in $SPSIBI, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech, LABD, LABD-24-21, Semiconductors, SOXX, SPBIO, XBI Tags: , , , ,

SOXX Powering Higher, XBI Pivoting Lower

To borrow from the Dickens classic:

It was the bullish of times, it was the bearish of times.

Bulls have regained control of the semiconductors (SOXX) for now and negated the ‘false breakout’ analysis link here.

Meanwhile, bears have moved into biotech XBI; currently testing underside resistance and axis line.

Since the active trade (LABD-24-21) is in biotech, we’ll review that market (not advice, not a recommendation).

Biotech XBI, Weekly

The weekly shows us the ‘Axis Line’ has been part of XBI price action for at least three years.

Moving on to the daily, more detail.

Biotech XBI, Daily

There was (decisive) downside penetration, November 15th. Then, an attempted recovery that so far, has failed.

The notation ‘Short?’, was the date of this post.

As the semiconductors battle over who’s in control, for biotech, the bears seem to have established a foothold (not advice, not a recommendation).

Stay Tuned

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The Seven-Year ‘Wedge’

December 15, 2024 By in $SPSIBI, 2007 - 2008, Biotech, Bonds, DHI, Interest Rates, LABD, LABD-24-16, SPBIO, TLT, XBI Tags: , , , ,

Massive Top Formation

D.R. Horton, (DHI) is the largest cap in the Residential Construction Sector (www.tc2000.com).

During the last blow-up (2005 – 2008), DHI, declined top-to-bottom over -91%.

Will it be different this time?

One thing that’s likely, the next implosion could be hit with widespread market and broker outages (not advice, not a recommendation).

The last (notable) time was here.

As far as known, feel free to comment to the contrary, this site’s the only one that incorporates outage potential (and reality) into its trading plan.

Case in point is this link.

The firm’s trade records show, on that Monday, the account was short: LABD-24-16.

The broker outage and panic helped the position. The trade was closed on August 8th, with a profit of 11.15%.

Enough said, let’s move on.

D.R. Horton DHI, Monthly

There it is, seven-years in the making.

We’re at the lower wedge boundary now.

Recently, bonds (TLT) had a minor move higher (rates lower), lasting two-weeks.

However, last week, TLT reversed down and eclipsed the previous two-weeks of gains.

Rates are now moving higher … again.

Stay Tuned

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Silver … To ‘Blip’ and Back

December 14, 2024 By in Gold & Silver, Silver Collapse, SLV, Solar Power Tags: , , , ,

A ‘Basic Material’

A ‘blip’ is all there was.

The last update on silver SLV (link here), had this to say:

“The 50% retrace area is shown. It will be interesting to see if SLV, gets that far.”

Well, SLV got that far, just barely, held for three days and then reversed, ending the week down.

While the hyperinflation mania rages on, click-bait by click-bait, the market itself tells us the truth … or the more probable truth.

That truth (below), silver (SLV), is poised for a series of downside reversals (not advice, not a recommendation).

Silver SLV, Monthly

One ‘terminating wedge’ within another; upside Force (pressure) is declining and bearish divergent (not advice, not a recommendation).

Silver may be considered a basic material like copper (also in decline) with over half of production used for industrial applications.

The COP-OUT

There’s dissent in the ranks.

As economies are stressed or fracture world-wide, the amount of free money available for ‘games’ essentially evaporates.

Case in point is here.

Already shown, the effects of economic decline (silver demand) with solar company bankruptcies, link here.

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Broadcom … Explodes !!!

December 13, 2024 By in Artificial Intelligence, AVGO, Basic Materials, Semiconductors, SOXX, Spring-to-Up-Thrust 1 Comment

It Does Not Mean, What You Think It Means …

Like something straight out of The Princess Bride, this morning’s Broadcom (AVGO) explosion, probably doesn’t mean what the ‘investing’ public thinks it means (not advice, not a recommendation).

The link above, tells us AVGO, has launched higher on a ‘bold A.I. forecast’.

A Forecast !!! … what maybe could, or might happen in the future, if nothing bad happens along the way, … maybe.

Well, let’s go to the sector itself, the SOXX, and see what the market’s really telling us.

Semiconductors, SOXX, Daily

The bubble trend break discussed here, remains intact.

Any number of notations can be made on this chart.

There’s a downtrend line from the October 15th high (not shown), with today, as the fourth hit on that line.

The low of November 27th, to today, could be classified as ‘spring-to-up-thrust’.

The list goes on.

However, the main point, and to leverage on yesterday’s update, is this:

If the building blocks of economic activity (Basic Materials) are in a (potential) long-term reversal, how are any of these so-called A.I. ‘data centers’ and the associated infrastructure going to be built?

Asking for a friend. 🙂

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Stealth Collapse … Basic Materials

December 12, 2024 By in Basic Materials, DJUSBM, LIN 1 Comment

Look No Further

It’s been a long time since Basic Materials ($DJUSBM) were discussed; we’ll get right to the point.

The building blocks of the economy, basic materials, show a long topping process and reversal (not advice, not a recommendation).

One sector ETF, is IYM; its top holding is Linde PLC.

Linde PLC, LIN, Daily

Putting it all, on one chart.

The trading channel, ‘top-to-pivot’, Fibonacci 34-Days.

Downside projections are shown (magenta lines).

At this point, price action is hitting and hesitating at (nearly) each projection lower (not advice, not a recommendation).

Stay Tuned

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