Charts and Coffee on December 31st, 2008 at 7:28 pm Central Time

This is a new static page called Correlation Divergence. The goal of this page is to keep track of relative relationships between historically highly correlated securities (e.g, SPY and DIA) and divergences in their correlation. Practical applications include observing these trends to implement hedging techniques such as pairs trading or simply adding support to go [...]

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Charts and Coffee on December 31st, 2008 at 12:59 pm Central Time

At the request of my readers, I’ll be updating this static link each Sunday with my portfolio holdings as of close of trading on the prior Friday. I will categorize positions by long stock, short stock, long index, short index, and junk long. The term “junk long” means positions are opened with approximately a 0.5% [...]

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Charts and Coffee on December 31st, 2008 at 11:08 am Central Time

The goal of C&C Fib Levels is to provide guidance for trading the markets beneath the November 2008 lows (also known as 2003 support levels on many of the indexes). These levels are referred to as FLs in my posts.
$SPX/SPY

950
910
880
850
805
785.51
746.01
715.00
693.22
671.43
644.48
600.93
372.50
$COMPX

1954.32
1238.09
996.58
804.55
671.17
536.59
371.00$RUT

493.09
472.54406.68383.87365.96353.39346.45340.81325.25300.10265.97232.76191.67125.26
XLE

39.86
35.26
31.66
29.12
26.59
23.45
18.39
XLU

25.09
20.75
19.25
18.07
17.25
16.42
15.39
13.80
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