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November 9, 2016

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Market Commentary

What more can I say that has not already been said about the events of the past 24 hours? A brand new administration, along with a majority congress to boot. Right now I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing as the Market generally likes gridlock….a majority administration generally causes uncertainty. But we had a full Republican admin & congress from 2003-2007, and a full Democratic admin & congress from 2008-2010, and in both cases markets went higher.

We now have a few clear weeks in order to place trades before the next FOMC event, which might be a non-event at this point.

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Offensive Actions

Offensive Actions for the next trading day:

Nothing planned tomorrow at this time, I would like to let the market normalize and then look this weekend for potential whale setups.

Defensive Actions

Defensive actions for the next trading day:

Any vertical debit spreads that we set up are risk-managed from day one, and no defense is really required.

Strategy Summary Graphs

Each graph below represents a summary of the current performance of a strategy category. For an explanation of what the graphs mean, watch this video.

Non-Directional Strategies

Semi-Directional Strategies

Directional Strategies

Technical Analysis Section

Market Internals: Volume was big today. Breadth was mediocre with +151 advancers minus decliners.

SPX Market Timer : The Intermediate line turned up above the Lower Reversal Zone, showing a bullish bias. No leading signals at this time..

DOW Theory: The SPX is in a long term uptrend, an intermediate uptrend, and a short-term uptrend. The RUT is in a long-term uptrend, an intermediate uptrend, and a short-term uptrend. The Dow is in an intermediate uptrend and short-term uptrend.

VIX: The VIX fell 23.27% to 14.38, back inside the bollinger bands. The RVX dropped 13.41% to 19.12 and is back inside the bollinger bands.

Fibonacci Retracements: The SPX had retraced more than 50% of the Brexit rally, but not quite 61.8% at SPX 2061. It had also retraced more than 38.2% of the full Feb-August rally.

Support/Resistance: For the SPX, support is at 2080 … with overhead resistance near 2200. The RUT has support at RUT 1090 with overhead resistance at about 1300. All three major index charts that we follow are now showing a Golden Cross with the 50 day moving average crossing above the 200 day average.

Fractal Energies: The major timeframe (Monthly) is still highly-charged with a reading of 54. The Weekly chart is now fully-charged showing an energy reading of 61, due to the recent chop. The Daily chart is showing a level of 46 which is starting to reflect the move to the upside.

Other Technicals: The SPX Stochastics indicator rose to 33, below mid-scale. The RUT Stochastics indicator rose to 10, oversold. The SPX MACD histogram rose above the signal line, showing a return of upside momentum. The SPX is back inside the Bollinger Bands with Bollinger Band support at 2091 and resistance at the upper band at 2169 and is at the upper band. The RUT is inside the Bollinger Bands with its boundaries at 1157 to 1244 and price is below the lower band.

If Central Banks go “all-in” to save each sovereign economy, this will not be sustainable in the long run. We will continue to monitor price action that will show us if the character of the market is moving towards a change in character to a Quiet/Trending Bull again. For now, we’re seeing necessary corrective action come in to “shock-start” markets and volatility again. Markets have become complacent to all of the central bank monetary policy and that’s not a good thing..

Position Management – NonDirectional Trades

I have no positions in play; I will wait on the first significant pullback to allow me to secure put spreads below support.

Offense: If this dip in price hits the 2050-2100 level on the S&P, we are game on for back month put spreads. I’m a little concerned about how deep this move could go depending on the results of Tuesday’s election. Might be best to wait on a big VIX spike first; my preference would be to locate something below the January lows at SPY 180 or lower. That will probably prove to be overly cautious but my number one goal is always risk management.

I have no positions right now:

No setups at the current time as we allow election risk to pass.

I have no time spreads at the current time. My preference is to take these on DAILY exhaustion and not WEEKLY exhaustion signals, since the weekly exhaustion creates unwanted price volatility. Similar to the LP Condors above, I will likely have to expand my view to include equity candidates that are showing a likely short-term consolidation. This is never my first choice due to the additional variables that we encounter.

I have the following positions in play:

SDS Stock – I still own 100 shares of this stock from 2011 and will continue to write calls against this position with every correction/pullback.
VXX Stock – I own 12 shares of this stock and will hold until Armageddon occurs.
SLV Stock – I have 1000 shares of the SLV that was assigned at the $15 level, and will continue to write time against these shares on every rally. I will look to sell more calls in the next bounce higher in SLV.
SSO – Waiting for the next pullback to sell puts against the SSO, preferably at the 50 level or lower. .

Nothing to do at this time with current positions.

Position Management – Directional Trades

Thoughts on current swing strategies:

8/21 EMA Crossover -We’ll look for the next crossover.
RSI(2) CounterTrend – Awaiting the next signal.
Daily S&P Advancers – if I see the number of daily S&P500 advancers drop into single digits near the close of any trading day, I will go long shares of the SSO.

Looking for the next edge. Price has been so choppy that it’s been difficult to identify the next edge.

No positions at this time.

I have no positions at the current time. We’ll wait until after the election to look for new candidates.

The “Hindenburg Strategy” is meant to capture “value” from successive corrections that lead up to the final “death spiral” with a Bear Market. The basic principle is to buy 3-month out long puts on the SPY, and to finance those puts by the sale of credit spreads.

To remove the current series of puts, I will look for a move down to and below the SPX 2100 level. We are there now but the NOV position is not profitable. If we see a real “waterfall” decline with the price coming down to about the SPX 2000 level I will at least close the NOV position and hold the JAN to exit as those positions get ATM.

I never got the upside “burst” to allow me to sell call spreads above SPY 230 that I wanted; now I can concentrate on selling put spreads at some level below SPY 190.

We currently have the following positions in play with this strategy:

SPY NOV 197 Long Puts – I entered this position (8/22) for a $1.56 debit.
SPY JAN17 193 Long Puts – I entered this position (10/24) for a $1.33 debit.