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Carvana Launches, After-Hours

December 6, 2025 By in AMZN, AMZN-25-01, APP, Artificial Intelligence, CVNA, HOOD, NVDA, S&P, S&P 500, Semiconductors, SOXX, Wyckoff Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

To be Part of S&P

Now we know the reason for nine-straight higher closes.

Wyckoff said a century ago:

‘Somebody always knows something’

That ‘something‘, then, shows up on the tape.

Inclusion in the S&P notwithstanding, ‘fundamentals’ for Carvana have not changed.

Here’s a recent report on what’s happening behind the scenes. Note: In the comments section, one reply suggests the assessment of CVNA is ‘overblown’, ‘dramatized’.

From a Wyckoff analysis standpoint, it doesn’t matter.

The tape itself will let us know, if or when there’s a change of character (not advice, not a recommendation).

Carvana CVNA, Daily

After-hours high, was 450.00

Just in the past four months, APP, HOOD, and now, CVNA have been included in the S&P.

At this point, we have the following:

APP is being investigated by the SEC.

CVNA, has ‘interesting’ numbers, currently being sued with class-action, questioning the core fundamentals.

Let’s not forget, several years ago, HOOD has its own class action resulting from their platform lockups.

Other ‘Fundamentals’

For those watching, the SOXX is at (or near) all-time highs.

We would expect Nvidia to be the leader (as it has done), but it’s lagging, still below its earnings release peak.

Looking at Amazon, proxy for the ‘consumer’, last year from October lows, to highs in December, Amazon posted a solid +29.3% gain.

This year, it’s completely different.

Amazon posted all-time highs that were quickly reversed.

From the lows of October 17th to Friday’s close AMZN is only up 8.77% and appears to be in a downward channel (not advice, not a recommendation).

Stay Tuned

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Bank Bust Ahead?

October 18, 2025 By in Banking, Credit Destruction, Positions, Wyckoff, XLF, XLF-25-08, ZeroHedge Tags: , , , , 5 Comments

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

What if there’s not enough money in the coffers, for a bank bail-out?

Last week’s chaos is still in the ‘next shoe-to-drop’, stage:

Auto Loan Delinquencies Surge 50% As Cracks Deepen Across U.S. Credit Markets, link here.

The Bizarre Bankruptcy At The Heart Of This Week’s Regional Bank Meltdown, link here.

“This Is Crazy”: Goldman Stunned By Regional Bank Meltdown; Its Clients Demand Answers To These 3 Questions, link here.

Wyckoff Had The Edge

The market itself told us ahead of time, something’s up.

The top in XLF, identified here. On the heels of that, literally hours before the Dow melt-down, this post.

Note: The Dow post even suggested potential action:

“From a Wyckoff analysis standpoint, it’s all there; a push through resistance to all-time highs, a struggle, then new daily low and now today, a possible upside test.”

The Dow pushed higher in the first fifteen-minutes of trade and then collapsed.

Focus Amidst The Chaos

The analysis links above are a reminder; as the chaos increases, focus is to remain on price action itself.

Let the market tell us its (own) next probable direction.

All of which brings us to the chart.

Financial Sector XLF, Daily

The zoom area shows at least three contact points on a possible trendline (Wed, Thu, Fri).

Short position XLF-25-08, entered early on Thursday, and pyramided late on Friday (not advice, not a recommendation).

Expectations, Next Week

Obviously, the expectation is for continued downside. We’ll probably know late on Sunday, if that’s likely to happen.

The XLF is labeled as EXTO (extended trading hours) eligible. If there’s even a hint of (sustained) upside pressure, the exit may come as early as Sunday night (not advice, not a recommendation)

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Delta’s at The Top

August 23, 2025 By in Airlines, DAL, DAL-25-03, Ed Dowd, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Great Depression 2.0, Interest Rates, Positions, Prechter, Semiconductors, SOXX Tags: , , , , 4 Comments

Apex, Terminating Wedge

Was the Fed speech a turning point?

Remember, markets typically move in the opposite direction first after the Fed, then resume their main trend.

On Friday, markets were generally higher on interest rate hopes. It’s called ‘hope’, as the Fed’s not actually done anything.

Let’s word that more accurately. The bond market has not (yet) told the Fed to lower rates. When it does (if it does), they will follow and present their case as if they are leading the market.

Decades ago, Robert Prechter Jr., in a research paper, proved this point. More recently, Ed Dowd repeats the fact, link here (time stamp: 37:48).

Markets were higher, including the SOXX, covered here, and in this update, airline sector Delta (DAL).

Delta Airlines, DAL, Daily

If there’s any one chart showing why this site primarily works the short side, this is it.

The last major move was an impulse downward, taking less than three-months.

The corrective move against the trend, has so far been nearly five months in choppy overlapping action.

DAL, finished on Friday at the Fibonacci 78.6%, retrace level (not shown). Unless the market decides otherwise, we’re in a terminating wedge.

Currently short DAL, as DAL-25-03, with stop just above Friday’s high (not advice, not a recommendation).

Weekend Wait

Now, the worrying starts … we can almost write the mainstream media script for the next few days.

Why will the Fed need to lower rates? Is unemployment going to continue higher? What about all the mass layoffs? How will the consumer be affected … and on and on.

As a reminder, ‘alternate’ (real) unemployment numbers are here. We’re already at 25%, Depression era levels.

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Gold Breaks Trend … Down

June 28, 2025 By in David Weis, GLD, Gold & Silver, One Way Pockets, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Wyckoff, ZeroHedge Tags: , ,

Spike Lower, or Long Term?

Seven weeks ago, was this post, giving a ‘heads up’, gold (GLD), had just printed massive upward thrust energy.

A print like that, happened only once before, near the 2011, top.

From that top, GLD, traded in a range for over a year before heading into a sustained decline.

That decline lasted three years, GLD down -46%.

So, here we are. 🙂

We’ve posted massive upward thrust energy seen only once before, a potential top, sideways action for just over two-months; then, trend breaks down.

Sounds about right.

Now, all-of-a sudden, professionals may be selling (or set, to sell), link here (not advice, not a recommendation).

Gold GLD, Daily Close

We’re going to look at GLD, a bit differently. That is, the repeating pattern of Spring-to-Up-Thrust, link here.

Human psychology does not change.

Buying on the way down.

From ‘One Way Pockets’, first published in 1917, the author had access to client accounts, analyzing their behavior over bull and bear cycles.

From his findings:

Once a stock had reached its peak and started a long decline, that’s where most of it was ‘handed out’. Sold to the public as it was moving lower … then, lower, still.

Wyckoff seconds this truth; ‘those on the wrong side of the trade, provide (most of) the fuel, for the way lower’.

Short Term, Long Term, or Not at All

As this update presented, we’ve had a potential top indication for GLD that’s only happened once before.

The last time, it was over four years before GLD, bottomed and started the next bull run.

It’s impossible to know if this time is different.

However, price action itself, will tell us the next probable direction.

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Tesla’s Plug, Pulled

June 10, 2025 By in Prechter, TSLA, ZeroHedge Tags: , ,

The Jolt, Is Gone

Last week, saw the largest ever, downward thrust energy for Tesla.

Price, whacked over -14%, in one day.

Then, ‘retail’ comes in to buy the dip (emphasis added):

Retail Investors Find A New And Extremely Dangerous Way To Chase TSLA, link here.

Pay no attention to the fact, on the fundamental side, EV sales are falling off a cliff, across the board:

US Electric Vehicle Adoption Plummets, link here.

Goldman Slashes Tesla Delivery Estimates On Weak Monthly Trends, link here.

All of which feeds into the (EV) supporting side of manufacturing:

Chinese-Owned Firm Halts Construction On Battery Plant In America’s EV Heartland, link here.

Then, on the environmental side, yet another EV fire:

New Footage Shows Abandoned Cargo Ship Laden With Chinese Cars Burning In Pacific, link here.

On the political side, it’s hard to gauge:

Musk Hit Bessent ‘Like A Rugby Player’ In White House Fight, Bannon Claims, link here.

‘Very Disrespectful’: Trump ‘Assumes’ Musk Relationship Is Over, link here.

The reason the politics are important, is because of the subsidies, link here.

On the price action side, we have the following:

Tesla TSLA, Daily

Pre-market trading (as of 8:56 a.m., EST) is around 315.15, slightly below the 50% retrace level shown.

Unfortunately (for them), the ‘retail’ investor, is telling us where the probabilities lay (not advice, not a recommendation).

Retail Woes

Before we feel sorry for ‘retail’, we’ve all been there at one point. Robert Prechter Jr., said it best when asked, ‘What advice, do you have for the average investor?’

His response was timeless: ‘Stop being the average investor’

What’s Next?

We’ve just had the largest downward force in the history of TSLA, a rebound fueled by apparent desperation, price action at or near the 50% retrace (from the 5/29, highs); the overall probabilities have become clear.

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U.S. Steel & The ‘Deal’

May 26, 2025 By in BA, BA-25-02, Positions, Wyckoff, X, ZeroHedge Tags: , ,

Another Short Opportunity?

A pattern is starting to emerge.

First, it was Boeing, now, it’s U.S. Steel.

Price action moves higher on news.

Trump Endorses U.S. Steel-Nippon Deal, link here.

Nippon purchase of U.S. Steel gets Trump’s approval for ‘planned partnership’, link here.

The ‘pattern’ begs the question: Can these upward ‘blips’ be sustained?

Blip Before Trip?

At this point, the answer to Boeing’s ‘blip’ from this site’s perspective is no (not advice, not a recommendation).

With that said, the short on Boeing (BA-25-02), could be stopped-out at the next session. Anything can happen.

Then, what about U.S. Steel?

U.S. Steel, X, Weekly

Price action has penetrated resistance which puts X, technically, in Wyckoff ‘Up-Thrust’ position.

There are several differences between the potential short set-up for X, and the one for BA.

First, the ‘spring’ portion on X, is missing, or not readily apparent like what can be seen here.

What Is & What May Be

Secondly, in Boeing’s case, events have already happened; production problems, design problems, quality control, labor disputes, bond ratings, already present.

Short trade (BA-25-02) anticipates, when ‘the blip is gone‘, focus on all things wrong with BA, will return.

The difference with U.S. Steel, a short would be in anticipation of things not yet present, to appear, such as the merger falling apart or some other event that negates the scenario.

Taking the two factors into account, no ‘spring’ portion of the set-up and anticipating things yet to appear, we’ll stand aside on shorting X, for now (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Sentiment … Volume … Price

May 24, 2025 By in CVNA, CVNA-25-03, CVNA-25-04, Michael Bordenaro, Positions Tags: , , , 1 Comment

Typical Phases of Reversal

Of course, it’s not obvious until it is, and then, it’s too late.

For Carvana, we definitely have the sentiment with the last earnings release.

A stellar quarter, but the future, not so much.

In just over two-weeks since then, bond prices are lower, rates higher and threatening to completely unravel, link here.

Carvana CVNA, Daily Close

Let’s put our recent (short) positioning activity into perspective.

That tiny little ‘blip’, at the far right, is where we’ve been attempting to position short (not advice, not a recommendation).

The area is expanded, below.

Prices are either congesting for a sustained launch higher or preparing to reverse.

That puts us at, The Danger Point®

Note that volume is contracting with Friday’s close, below the prior tops.

We have ‘sentiment’, now ‘volume’, then (maybe) price.

Positioning

Friday’s close could have been that ‘price’ part of the equation. We’ll see in the coming week.

The last update said, if there was buoyancy, CVNA-25-03, may be exited; that’s what happened.

Then, right at the close, another short: CVNA-25-04, with a stop near the session high (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Bear Market = Wealth Transfer

April 14, 2025 By in 1987, GDX, GDXJ, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-09, LABD, LABD-25-06, Positions, SILJ, SLV, Spring-to-Up-Thrust, Uneducated Economist Tags: , , , 1 Comment

The ‘Extraction’ Process

Bear markets are not (always) prices going straight down, a la 1987.

Bear markets are ‘price destruction’; a series of ups and downs that effectively drain (whipsaw) the typical market account.

The last two weeks have seen record breaking extremes; the latest being this update, indicating the market posted the largest volume ever recorded.

Dodging Bullets

A case in point, this site’s narrow miss on having a huge gain (LABD-25-06, short biotech) being completely obliterated in last week’s largest short squeeze, ever.

It’s (almost) a ‘no-brainer’, this type of market behavior is not bullish (not advice, not a recommendation).

Then, The Propaganda

If it’s not dodging bullets, it’s sifting through the propaganda, half-truths, and outright lies.

The latest of these, (could be) ‘China dumping dollars’ and other ‘collapse’ narratives.

There’s volatility for sure. That’s what bear markets are about. However, this link might help mitigate the hysteria around the ‘It’s all blowing up’ narrative (not advice, not a recommendation).

In the above link, how it really works, time stamp: 17:58

So, here we are. What’s next?

Gold & Silver, Update

Even though both gold (GLD), and silver (SLV), are trading lower as of this post (12:52 p.m., EST), the Junior Miners GDXJ, posted a new daily high, thus, short JDST-25-09, was exited (not advice, not a recommendation).

Today’s activity does point to a new potential (developing) set-up, this time, silver miners SILJ.

Silver Miners SILJ, Daily

The set-up (spring-to-up-thrust) may develop from here, or it could diffuse into chaos.

It remains a possibility, until price action itself says, ‘no’.

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Gold’s Breathless Break … Higher

April 12, 2025 By in David Weis, Dr. Elder, GLD, Gold & Silver, Gold Miners, JDST, JDST-25-09, Positions, SLV, ZeroHedge Tags: , , ,

Was Friday, The Last Gasp?

Another market, stretched to the extreme.

Will gold (GLD) pause or even reverse?

To answer that question, or at least look at the probabilities, let’s step away from the breathless, me-too herd, and see what’s really going on.

Silver, One Year Later

Before we get to what the crowd’s doing now, as a reminder, last year at this time (the crowd said), silver was supposed to be launching into a hyperinflationary breakout.

Remember that? Well, it didn’t happen. 🙂

This site posted for months, price action itself (SLV) indicated the probabilities were low for a sustained breakout, starting with this link.

However, there are times when the masses are correct. Is this one of those times?

Let’s take a look.

First, The Hysteria

To get a gage on what’s going on, we have a sample of the current mind-set, listed below.

‘Sell America’ Trade Sparks Gold-Rush, Dollar Crush As US Bond Yields Surge Most In 43 Years, link here.

Gold Euphoria, Bond Mayhem, Dollar Disgrace, link here.

The Asymmetric Gold Trade, link here.

Markets Live: Gold & Bitcoin Soar As ‘Sell America’ Trade Escalates, link here.

Citi’s Former Global Strat Head: Gold More Room To Run, link here.

Futures Flat, Gold Soars, Dollar Crashes After China Hikes US Tariffs To 125%, link here.

Gold Hits Record High As Dollar Dumps; Stocks & Commodities Remain ‘Tariff-ied’, link here.

Now, Reality, The Price Action

As with silver (SLV), we’re going to look at the characteristics of the gold (GLD) market to determine what’s likely to happen next.

Gold GLD, Daily Close

As David Weis used to say: “What do you see?”

The lower panel is Elder’s ‘Force Index’.

What we can see is that GLD, has met the characteristics, the set-up, that in the past resulted in a reversal (not advice, not a recommendation).

Hysteria on Steroids

Could gold go even higher from here?

Absolutely. Anything can happen.

When looking at the situation rationally, is this the spot where price action could stall, or even reverse?

As with silver, the price action itself says, conditions are in place for that potential (not advice, not a recommendation).

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Carvana … Edge of The Abyss

March 19, 2025 By in CVNA, David Weis, Wyckoff, ZeroHedge Tags: , , , 1 Comment

There Is No Bounce …

Normal market behavior when penetrating well established support, is some kind of bounce … higher.

What happens, when that doesn’t happen?

What does it mean?

Well, one way to think about it, is this link.

Experts Say: ‘There Is No Recession’

Since 1980, This Has Signaled The Lows Are In: Link here.

Is It Safe to Get Back In? Link here

Corporate Insiders Scramble To Buy Their Own Stock As Buyback Blackout Period Begins. Link here.

Last but not least, my personal favorite 🙂

Recession Canceled: US Industrial Production Jumps To Record High. Link here.

David Weis 1980s

Back in the 1980s, the late David Weis was a bond trader.

He published a series of trading articles using Wyckoff analysis; in one of those, this comment stood out (paraphrasing):

‘We considered none of these things …’

That is, stay focused on what the market is saying about itself. Ignore the press and any other distractions.

With that, we have Carvana.

Carvana CVNA, Daily

What can be said?

After penetrating support, some kind of bounce is expected … except, so far, it’s not happening.

This post is coming out before the regular open.

CVNA is trading a couple points higher (pre-market) but nowhere near the nearest 189-ish, resistance area.

The Fed has yet to announce their shenanigans for the day; that itself, could cause a bounce higher … or not.

While the press chases after squirrels and gold, the market itself (CVNA) is saying, if it can’t retrace higher but pivots down, it indicates significant weakness (not advice, not a recommendation).

Stay Tuned

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