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#1 Drano

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 11:10 AM

I just got this from MarketWatch Alerts

"U.S. stocks gain in early trades Monday, extending Friday's big advances"

That's a Sell. Whenever they breathlessly alert you to some trivial move, you can pretty much fade it.

Looks like NAV will make out on his puts. We don't have a turn yet, so I'm not shorting this piglet yet. That's just our discipline.

Mark

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#2 relax

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 11:47 AM

Hehe, mark has a point, but i don't think one should overestimate the intention of journalists on a monday they can be uinspired like anybody else at work and be in a lets-get-this-over-with-mood

#3 OEXCHAOS

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 12:00 PM

The correlation is pretty good, no matter what. I'm theorizing that it is a function of human psychology, not random chance nor evil intent. Though I'm more confident of the former than the latter. ;) M

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#4 slupert

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Posted 20 August 2007 - 07:08 PM

I just got this from MarketWatch Alerts

"U.S. stocks gain in early trades Monday, extending Friday's big advances"

That's a Sell. Whenever they breathlessly alert you to some trivial move, you can pretty much fade it.

Looks like NAV will make out on his puts. We don't have a turn yet, so I'm not shorting this piglet yet. That's just our discipline.

Mark

Sometimes the silliest indicators turn out great. Bravo !


does nav have a blog?