Monthly Archives: April 2025

Bottoms, Tops & Tests

April 10, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, LABD, LABD-25-06, Positions, SPBIO, XBI

Biotech Bottoms, Gold Tops, Miners Test

Bear markets, different rules.

Huge, swift declines, followed by face-ripping, short-covering rallies.

Yesterday was a day just like that.

When price action is moving quickly, one of the dangers is being hypnotized.

Biotech Bottoms

Looking at the biotech data from yesterday, the XBI, posted a bottom of, wait for it, 66.66.

Where have we seen that before?

As the prior update stated, the LABD-25-06, trade was exited in the pre-market yesterday. XBI was at support and that was the reason for exit.

At the time it was unknown, later in the session, we’d get (potentially) the largest short-covering rally in history.

Currently (as of 8:03 a.m., EST), XBI, is trading slightly lower.

Depending on the regular session action, the short trade (via LABD) may be re-opened (not advice, not a recommendation).

Gold Tops

For gold (GLD), large volume, wide price swings can be signs of trouble.

Yesterday was huge volume and price bar, resulting in a ‘Force Index’ reading of ‘257.8’-mil.

That does not necessarily mean anything until it’s put into context.

That last time there was a similar high-energy move was March 8th, 2022; a ‘Force’ reading of 243.1-mil, that put in a top, not exceeded for nearly 2-years.

Miners Test

Then, the miners, GDX, GDXJ.

For this update we’ll look at the Juniors, GDXJ.

Junior Miners, GDXJ, Daily

There was a breakdown (with gap) from the wedge. That breakdown has been tested.

Along with the test potentially complete, the price gap from last Friday’s action (4/4/25) has essentially been closed.

Positioning

Short the GDXJ, via JDST as Trade JDST-25-07; the stop is (equivalent to) a few ticks above yesterday’s (56.18) GDXJ high (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Biotech Nears Support Levels

April 9, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, LABD, LABD-25-06, Positions, SPBIO, XBI 1 Comment

Trades Closed in Pre-Market

As biotech XBI, nears support levels (charts forthcoming), all short trades have been closed in the pre-market session (not advice, not a recommendation).

Trade LABD-25-06, was closed just after 7:00 a.m., EST with a profit slightly above +27%.

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Biotech’s ‘Inside Action’

April 8, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, LABD, LABD-25-06, Positions, SPBIO, XBI

Holding The High

Early yesterday, biotech XBI, got stretched into an apparent squeeze.

That squeeze printed a high at 75.86, which as of this post (10:43 a.m., EST) is holding.

The chart shows what’s technically called ‘inside action’ or an ‘inside bar’. Today’s trading is taking place within the range of yesterday’s bar.

Biotech XBI, 4-Hour

There’s a lot going on.

The expectation was for this morning’s open to post above yesterday’s high; it didn’t happen.

As of this release, price action remains tight, not pushing significantly higher or lower.

Tight action typically precedes a directional move.

Positioning

With the above conditions in play, a short has been re-established (LABD-25-06) with a very tight stop … one, or two ticks, above yesterday’s XBI, high. (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Silver Retrace Target(s)

April 7, 2025 By in GDX, GDXJ, Gold & Silver, SILJ 1 Comment

Using The Futures Low

It was a wild ride in overnight trading for most markets; silver was one of them.

The chart below shows what’s missing on the regular session.

A huge swing lower that bottomed out in the first 10-minutes, after the Sunday (futures) open.

There’s no real commentary on the chart; we’re just showing retrace levels.

Silver, SLV, Daily

It’s reasonable to expect, if silver continues to retrace higher, the miners (GDX, GDXJ, SILJ) will as well (not advice, not a recommendation).

With today’s session complete, SLV has made it back to the 38.2%, level.

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Will It Bounce?

April 6, 2025 By in 1987, CVNA, KMX, Martin Zweig, ZeroHedge

Carvana, In Position

Yesterday, it was CarMax.

Today, it’s Carvana.

Before we get to Carvana, yesterday’s update also said, we’d have no shortage of ‘post-mortems’.

Well, here they are:

“Mr. Market Will Keep Searching (Lower) For A Put Strike” – Goldman Hedge Fund Honcho Warns ‘Trading Environment Remains Exceedingly Fluid’

Why It Should Not Bounce Here Yet

Why It Should Bounce

You can’t make this up. Those two headlines (above) were one after another on ZeroHedge.

That’s probably enough. You get the idea. 🙂

In the case of Carvana, let’s look at what the price action is telling us is the most likely event.

Carvana, CVNA, Daily

After-Hours on April 2nd, trading posted briefly at 243.6, within the purple oval, creating an ‘Up-Thrust’.

Last Friday’s action penetrated support and is holding.

Note the price range of that day’s bar is less than Thursday’s, with volume slightly larger.

For now, CVNA, has stopped dead at support.

There may be follow-through on Monday, but with the (YouTube) crowd and others expecting a ‘crash’, that makes is less likely (not advice, not a recommendation).

When a real expert warns of a crash, it may look something like this (time stamp 6:42).

Note the condescension from the other panel member.

Then came Monday, October 19th, 1987.

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Assessing The (market) Damage

April 5, 2025 By in Car Questions Answered, CVNA, DIA, IBB, IWM, IYM, IYR, KMX, QQQ, SOXX, SPBIO, SPY, XLF, XOP 1 Comment

Sifting Through The Rubble

There are sure to be plenty of post-mortems over the weekend; usual suspects giving us their assessment on what’s already happened. 🙂

Sometimes the question, is not ‘what’s happened’, but ‘what has not happened’.

That’s where the opportunity may lie.

Market Implosion

Over the past week, there were wide price bars, with action unstable in all major indices (ETFs): DIA, IBB, IWM, IYM, IYR, QQQ, SOXX, SPBIO, SPY, XLF, and XOP.

However, what did not implode (completely), are the car dealerships; specifically, CarMax and Carvana.

For this update, we’ll look at CarMax.

CarMax, KMX, Weekly Close

On a close basis, KMX, has bounced off the lower wedge boundary and is near the resistance area (magenta line).

Price action could be positively biased in the coming week as a result of ‘tax refund’ car buying (not advice, not a recommendation)

According to ‘Car Questions Answered‘, it’s a yearly ‘thing’.

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While The Market Panics

April 4, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, Dr. Elder, GDX, GDXJ, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, LABD, LABD-25-05, Positions, SILJ, SPBIO, XBI

‘Closing Positions’

We’ll cut straight to the chase.

The biotech short LABD-25-05, has been closed: Profit on the main position is +61.25% (not advice, not a recommendation).

While the market is hysterical, price action in XBI, indicates the current down move is losing (some) energy, hence the reason for the exit.

Biotech XBI, Daily

Exit was made at the lower channel line (demand line) contact.

The market could certainly continue lower from here.

However, from past experience and watching huge profits erode to only mediocre results, the same mistake is not being presented here (not advice, not a recommendation).

Meanwhile, the gold miners don’t look like the safe haven everybody thought they were.

Update on that, later.

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Markets Implode !

April 3, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech, GDX, GDXJ, GLD, GLL, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, LABD, LABD-25-05, Livermore, Positions, Semiconductors, SILJ, SOXX, SPBIO, XBI

Is This It?

Those on this site daily, knew something was about to happen in a big way.

It was just, when.

Now, markets are volatile if not imploding.

Nearly all sectors reversing at once.

As of this post (10:55 a.m., EST), some of those are attempting to recover (GDX, GDXJ, SILJ) with others down hard (not advice, not a recommendation).

There were plenty of clues:

Massive volume increase in GLL, strange activity in biotech, then resignation at the FDA, failure of NVDA to get back to a 50% retrace, the list goes on.

As mentioned yesterday, one sector that’s continuing lower is biotech, XBI.

Biotech XBI, Daily

There may be several trading channels in effect. Only the most aggressive (so far) is shown.

Note the locations of short positioning via LABD (not advice, not a recommendation).

As of this post, the initial LABD short, entered on March 25th, is up over +40%.

Going Forward

So, what happens now?

For this trade, Livermore said it best (paraphrasing):

Position on the right side of the market (the correct direction), then wait.

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Carvana Hits Target … After-Hours

April 2, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, CVNA, LABD, LABD-25-05, Positions, SPBIO, XBI 1 Comment

That Makes ‘Twice’

That’s two times in a row, Carvana hit a target area (presented on this site) in the after-hours session.

The last time was here, CVNA printed 310, in the after-hours on February 19th.

Then, just hours ago, price action thrust higher into the zone in this post, printed at 243.6, then collapsed.

We never got to ‘Day 34’.

However, the real story may be in biotech XBI, with huge swings in both directions; currently (as of 6:35 p.m., EST) trading below today’s regular session low.

Charts to follow.

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Biotech Craters on FDA News

April 1, 2025 By in $SPSIBI, Biotech, Bloomberg, LABD, LABD-25-05, Positions, SPBIO, Wyckoff, XBI, ZeroHedge

Someone, Always Knows, Something

One week ago today, was this (emphasis added):

If the trendline is in-effect, meaning the market’s hanging in mid-air in a false breakout, getting back into that trend may result in some dramatic downside action.

Well, we got the dramatic downside.

Biotech XBI, collapsed nearly -11%, and 3X Inverse Fund LABD, is up +38%, and climbing.

As Wyckoff said a century ago:

‘Someone always knows something … and that ‘something’, shows up on the tape.’

It turns out in this case, showing up on the tape, was this, and this.

Biotech XBI, Daily

The chart from the week-ago post, has been updated.

As is typical, the ‘reason’ for last week’s price action comes out later, after the fact.

Positioning

At this point, trade LABD-25-05, is being maintained (not advice, not a recommendation).

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