You would think the media would have learned from the Fiscal Cliff non-event that there's no reason to cry wolf but, unfortunately for an ill-informed citizenry, "WOLF!" = ratings. In fact, they even have a guy named Wolf giving us the news (but, ironically, he gets no ratings).
It's the end of the month today so, probably, the markets will flat-line but we had our fun yesterday as we jumped right on the bullish bandwagon at 9:42 (we were, as noted in the morning post, already bullish from the previous day) with a bullish play on the Nikkei Futures (/NKD) in our Member Chat at 11,250 (same entry we hit last Thursday, in fact) and those gave us a 200-point ride at $5 per point, per contract for $1,000 gains on the day. The Nikkei actually tested 11,500 after hours but we were long gone by then.
The Dow is already over it's previous high so we'll be looking at adding some Dow components today and tomorrow – in case they get away from us. As the S&P is testing our 10% line, they are the logical index to watch closely and we also have a very clear indicator of when to get out of the short hedge with a small loss if they do pop 1,520 and hold it over the weekend (or if AAPL finally gets going, of course).
This morning we had another opportunity to go long on Copper (/HG) at $3.565 and Silver (/SI) came back down to $28.85 – exactly where we drew a line in the sand early Tuesday morning in Member Chat, where I called it "the best long of the moment." As I noted in Tuesday morning's post, the Dollar is under 81.85 (81.69) so it's a no-brainer to make this entry to make some Egg McMuffin money in the morning.
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