Category Archives: SOXS-24-12

Nat-Gas is Back

July 22, 2024 By in Natural Gas, South Sea Bubble, SOXS, SOXS-24-12, SOXX, UNG, UNG-24-11

Reversal Action

Price action detailed below, shows upside reversal (not advice, not a recommendation).

It’s been a while since the last update on Nat-Gas, UNG.

Since then, price action sliced through support (shown in the update), posting new lows.

However, over the past week, the character has changed.

Natural Gas, UNG, 3-Day

Today is ‘Day 3’, for the chart’s price bar; tomorrow’s action begins a new ‘3-Day’ bar.

At this juncture, the prior three-day move to new (daily) lows has been negated with today’s action.

If positioning long, the obvious stop level would be the low of the current three day bar at UNG 13.89 (not advice, not a recommendation).

Anything Can Happen

The past two weeks has shown us, in no uncertain terms, that anything can happen.

So, it is with the markets.

Nat-Gas has been bouncing around historical lows for some time; plenty of time to wear out any (remaining) bulls.

SOXX Housekeeping

While under no obligation to discuss open (or closed) trades, as a courtesy, today’s price action forced closure of SOXX short trade; SOXS-24-12

Total profit on the trade, having twelve separate entries and one exit (today) was just over 19%.

We’re potentially at the top of the largest mania in history save the South Sea, expecting things to go in a straight line is (apparently) not realistic. 🙂

Let’s see what happens next.

Stay Tuned

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How To Use ‘Seasonality’

July 21, 2024 By in Livermore, Seasonality, SOXS, SOXS-24-12, SOXX, Trump, ZeroHedge

Three Months of Down

For the next three-months, until the end of October, the (net) seasonality of the markets is down.

That’s not all.

According to this link, we have a bevy of technical and fundamentals suggesting the overall direction of the markets is to lower levels (not advice, not a recommendation).

Lower is good … at least if one is positioned short.

With that, we’ll look at the semiconductors, SOXX, to see how seasonality might help on a (potential) short position.

Semiconductors SOXX, Daily

If the channel remains intact, we’re still at the beginning.

Of course, the very next session can completely blow this analysis apart. That’s the way of the markets.

For now, however, we do have a channel, we do have the above-mentioned seasonality; probability and pressure is to the downside (not advice, not a recommendation).

Turkey & Position

For those familiar with ‘Reminiscences‘, and ‘Turkey’, a.k.a. Mr. Partridge, we should all know the importance of maintaining position.

The objective, therefore, is to attempt to maintain a short position (via SOXS, or other short) as long as possible, given the trading channel and bearish bias (not advice, not a recommendation).

Simple But Not Easy

One of the very first things the Online Trading Academy (Dallas) told their class back in the day, working the markets with a profitable plan of action should be ‘simple’.

They also said, the problem is, it’s not easy.

Here’s just one unrelated example of a simple job (i.e. ‘protection’) that’s obviously, not easy.

Stay Tuned

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The A.I. Rope … Just Broke

July 17, 2024 By in Artificial Intelligence, NVDA, Semiconductors, SOXS, SOXS-24-12, SOXX, TSM, ZeroHedge

So, It Begins

SOXX, pre-market, down a solid -3.2%.

Taiwan Semi (TSM) is the primary reason with its own trading down over -5%,.

If this really is the top of the A.I. bubble, the potential (now apparent) reversal was covered well in advance, here, here, and here.

If this is not the top and there’s more to go, the SOXX would need to retrace significantly, find support and thrust energy to mount another rally (not advice, not a recommendation).

Note: MACD indicators are bearish divergent on both daily and weekly.

Making It Up, As We Go

Of course, the press has to make up a reason for the pre-market rout. So, for today, we have this and this.

Tomorrow is a whole ‘nother story, literally 🙂

Semiconductor SOXX, Weekly

The blue arrow notes only one other time (in history) in the SOXX, where downward thrust exceeded that of week ending, April 19th.

Otherwise, we have the usual suspects: Terminating wedge, dissipating energy, Fibonacci correlations for chief cook and bottle washer Nvidia, link here.

Stay Tuned

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Hanging By A Thread

July 13, 2024 By in Artificial Intelligence, NVDA, Semiconductors, SOXS, SOXS-24-12, SOXX, Up-Thrust, Wyckoff

SOXX Bulls, Lose Their Grip

For most of Friday’s session, SOXX bulls looked like they would make it.

Price action pushed up to within 1%, of a new all-time-high.

Levels threatening the A.I. reversal scenario right up until 30-minutes before the close.

Then, the air came out.

The SOXX, closed up for the day, but just under the breakout, shown in the chart below.

Semiconductors SOXX, Daily

Along with closing below resistance (blue line), price action did so on contracting volume.

Volume contraction implies, commitment to higher prices is weak (not advice, not a recommendation).

Sentiment, Volume, Price

That’s the reversal construct being used on this site.

First, the sentiment, then volume, then finally, the price.

Looking at the 5-Year Weekly chart of Nvidia, we can see it playing out in real-time.

Nvidia NVDA, Weekly

The professionals have already left the chat; storm clouds are beginning to appear.

So far, ‘Week 89’ reversal remains intact.

The Danger Point®

From an engineering standpoint, the SOXX, has met the requirements for a Wyckoff up-thrust (not advice, not a recommendation).

First: Price action posted an outside-down reversal (last Thursday), on increased volume and closed below established resistance.

Second: That reversal was then tested (on Friday) and did so, on contracting volume.

Third: MACD, divergences on Weekly and Daily timeframes; although near-term weekly has yet to tick lower but still (diverging) below the highs of this past March.

    Intuitively, you can feel that something’s up. The A.I. pump-n-dump set-up may have run its course.

    Stay Tuned

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    The SOXX … Day 55 (+2)

    July 11, 2024 By in Artificial Intelligence, NVDA, Semiconductors, South Sea Bubble, SOXS, SOXS-24-12, SOXX 1 Comment

    Margin of Error

    If you’re upside down in a diving stall, shown here, there’s no margin for error or you’re dead; literally.

    The big problem for engineers, it doesn’t work that way in the markets.

    Two days after this post, we have a potential reversal in the SOXX (not advice, not a recommendation).

    Of course, the engineers have long since left the room as there was an ‘error.’; not getting the (potential) reversal exactly right.

    If the AI mania is over, that update two days ago was off by two-days; the biggest bubble in world history … at least since the South Sea Bubble.

    So, let’s move on to the chart.

    Before we get started, also note, Nvidia has not made a new (all-time) high. This update identified that reversal correctly (so far).

    Semiconductors SOXX, Daily

    As of 11:05 a.m., EST, the SOXX has posted out-side-down.

    When Fibonacci counts get longer, there is more room to be off by a few days.

    If this is the reversal for the SOXX, a two-day margin is fully acceptable (not advice, not a recommendation).

    Stay Tuned

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