The data is being released every other day or so and will be current probably by this weekend hopefully.
October 2013
Monthly Archive
October 31, 2013
October 31, 2013
As much as I agree generally with the quote, in the market, it is very dangerous.
October 30, 2013
Just surfing around blogoland the general concensus would seem to be that the bull market continues, but it is not loved.
The thing is; what else is there? Inflation is present and the PV of money is eroding. Markets rising to new nominal highs offset that erosion, so investors stay long. Bonds are showing close to negative real returns, why would you want to be in them? Commodities are treading water. I quite like commodities, but accept that it will take some significant time to pay off. With the world in recession and relying on credit expansion for the tepid growth, commodities are a long game.
Short term trading, which would be for positions of about a year, should embrace market neutral strategies. These protect you against the unforeseen disaster and allow you to participate more confidently in the bull move. It avoids the necessity of having and justifying a market outlook based on anything, fundamentals, politics, or squiggles on a chart.
Longer term [long only] strategies require you to buy and sell and obviously require ‘timing’ decisions. You need some form of decision model that you will emotionally adhere to, to plan these buy/sell decisions.
October 29, 2013
The COT data from 8 October has now been released.
October 27, 2013
The COT data is the old data from October 1. So, again, no current data is available.
October 27, 2013
Earnings, despite the new highs, are not optimistic currently.
October 26, 2013
October 25, 2013
The COT data has been released this week, so there will be a duCati Report this week. Obviously the weeks in which there was no data will not count towards subscriptions.
October 25, 2013
Switching out of SPY into the 30 individual Dow stocks. This is only for portfolio tracking purposes, the COT number will continue to track the S&P500.
October 23, 2013
It looks as if the market is going to have some weakness. Hardly an issue after the run up in prices. Timing is always a bit of an issue, but this is another classic buy-the-dip. We are retreating off of new all time highs. There is nothing much else out there investment wise and inflation and money debasement continues unabated. Buy-the-dip, just wait for the moment for the all clear from the pattern.
