Testy Tuesday – 1,920 Or Bust!

That’s 2 closes over 1,920.  

It’s almost enough to make us regret cashing out our Long-Term Portfolio last week.  We didn’t expect to call a perfect top, when you have a large portfolio it can take days to unwind your positions and, despite the very low volume – we’d like to thank all the retail bagholders who bought our shares at top dollar in the last few days.

[Chart by Dave Fry]

Thanks Dave and Bill and Jack and Joe and – well, that’s about it as volume is so low, there can’t be more then 3 or 4 guys trading in this market!  

Last June started off with low volume too – as well as record highs – and then we dropped 5% into July.  We’re simply taking our 119% cash and waiting for the dip – is that so bad?  

Yesterday was only the 3rd lowest volume day of the year and the action was wonderfully fake around a PMI report that was released, revised and then revised again – all in the same morning!  

In the end, they decided on 56.4, which was in-line with consensus but not before giving us a glimpse on how quickly this market can fail on bad news. 

In our Live Member Chat Room, we took full advantage of the over-reaction on the bad news to go against the panicking sheeple and buy TNA (3x bullish ETF on the Russell) in a 9:57 Alert I sent out to our Members.

That trade was so obvious I tweeted it out as well (you can follow me here) saying:

Those calls came in cheaper (because our timing was perfect) at $1.50-$1.40 and they topped out at $1.70 and finished the day at $1.61 but should be cheap again this morning, which is why I’m mentioning them now as they make an excellent upside hedge – in case the market does better than we think.  

Since we sidelined $598,000 last week ($98,000 in profits in less than 6 months), we decided to spend $3,000 on 20 of the above contracts – that way we won’t cry if the market flies back up on us.