Bull against bear

Financial markets, macro economics, politics and everything else concerning the global markets. The writer is a long time investment banking operative in the nordic markets. The blog is usually updated once a week with specific trading advice. On a monthly basis, the goal is to provide a strategy update. In addition to that, there will be posts of more general content, housing bubbles, investment strategies and more.

July 18, 2013

Weekly update 7/18

After this mornings squeeze above all time highs I am quite comfortable entering short positions on a daily, weekly and monthly time frame.

We now have reports out from the strongest companies as well as infinity + 1 speeches from the Bernank. What else is there really?

We also have neutralisation of overly bearish sentiment as is witnessed in the AAII sentiment survey as well as put/call ratios and data from individual broker firms.

Hedged positions can consist of:

Long SPX, short tech in general or weak companies like BBRY, NOK, LOGI, AAPL, LXK, HPQ. Remember that the market boat has lifted these as well over the last months.

Long SPX, short commodities.

Long Germany, short PIGS.

Basically these are the themes that I have held as a base all year.



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