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Good Morning Friends, Yesterday we had a huge gap down and then we gave it all back (and now we’ve given back all the gains from the drop again in the overnight).  So I know a lot of you might

Okay, those CPI numbers are coming in a few minutes, so let’s see how futures and commodities respond. Okay, they’re hotter than expected 1.3%! 9.1% was shocking. Someone ‘leaked’ Spain’s numbers yesterday as the US Numbers, 10% and I think

Good Mornings Friends, PLEASE look at the downgrading going on. Downgrades are coming in hot and heavy, 50 downgrades JUST today. And I’m expecting more downgrades and further downgrades to the downgrades. Analysts FINALLY waking UP! Volatility increases if SPX

Good Morning Friends. If you want to know if or when we reach a recession forget the talking heads, since the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBR) are the real trackers of the data, and at this point because we’re

Good Afternoon Friends, That JPMorgan Collar on the SPX is keeping us range-bound, and we are feeling a bit of reverse to the Volatility Means, so many of the underlyings should be near the center of the Bollinger Band. Which

The University of Michigan Survey of Consumer Sentiment was started in 1952, containing 70 years of data, and the reading it gave today was the worst ever in the history of the survey. Worse than the Kennedy Assassination, Financial Crisis,

Yesterday’s beginning of our “short cover rally” was literally followed by a HUGE amount of selling calls and buying puts across indexes and individual equities. It seems no one thought the Gamma Squeeze Short Cover set to expire on June