Lessons

1. If VIX is under 26, buy the dip. If VIX is over 26, sell the rip.

2. Always trade in the direction of the larger trend. Find the strongest trend in your time period.

3. Nothing as bearish as a failed breakout. Nothing as bullish as a failed break down.

4. Don't worry about the last dollar. Take your money and go to the beach!

5. No more than four positions at a time. Preferably 2-4. Scope out others. Pick the strongest.

6. Buy the strongest; sell (short) the weakest.

7. Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Weekend Update

Next week (between 3/8 and 3/15), gold will pause (at 1150-1160), and the dollar will pause its fall (between 79.6 and 80.1). The subsequent reaction will tell us if Gold is to triumph or the dollar. The Euro is batting for the dollar's triumph -- by continuing to fall apart as a monetary currency. If the dollar triumphs, then Gold will have a hard time going over 1160. However, I think that in the short-run, the dollar will decline.

I think the dollar will be weak in the short-term (1-2 weeks) and strong in the medium-term (1-3 months). In the short-term, the Euro may be stronger until 1.384. I personally don't see the Euro going beyond that level. It could, but I don't see it.

The Australian dollar will be strong in the long-term, and in the short-term. I think its bull market will continue for another 4-5 years, as a Commodity bull market started in October 2009. (Now is a really good long-term entry.) The AUD/USD is making a nice bull flag on the weekly chart.

In the short-term, the AUS/USD is a buy (until at least .9241 (175 pips or so)) where it meets a falling trend line that may cause a bit of resistance (the bull flag line). I believe that this high will come within the next week, and should coincide with a high in Gold, the EURO and the SPX. This will be a ST high.

To conclude:
In the long-term, I am bullish AUD/USD.
In the medium-term, I am bearish EUR/USD.
In the short-term, for the next week or two, I am bearish the USD and so I can be bullish the Euro, AUD and PMs. I will sell PMs around Gold 1155 to wait and see.

I think that after 1160, Gold will come down to 1130-1140, after which it will go straight up to 1300. This will be accompanied by the SPX going up to 1200-1240, which should all happen by May 1.

Basically, for the next four years or so, whenever the Euro and SPX are bullish, the AUD will be VERY bullish. The AUD/USD will probably predict moves in and roughly match the trends of the Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil and Indian stock indices.

Monday: Dollar rises EUR bottom at 1.357 or so, ES range 1025-1140. Gold 1135 -?
Trade: Buy GBPUSD 1.5075 (taking out short position). Buy EURUSD 1.357.

Tues Dollar falls; ES rises to 1140

Wed: Dollar falls; bottoms? SPX tops 1150-1160?

Thurs: Dollar falls; bottoms? SPX tops?

Fri: Dollar falls/rises. bottoms? SPX tops?


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