The festivities have been halted, if only for a short while. Although the Dow is down a mere 5 points, most stocks are getting man-slaughtered, particularly those tied to crude. As a point in fact, crude always gets smashed in January, yet here I am long an abundance of oil stocks. Aside from all of the talk and bravado, I am prepared to lose no more than 10% on this opening salvo. At the moment, I am down a staggering 0.64% for the year.
It’s important to put things into perspective on days like today. I’ve been spoiled with instant double digit gains for months now and find it tedious to absorb paper losses. Naturally, due to the over-bullish and confident environment we find ourselves in, should the bids dry up, there will be many pikers caught permanently in the net. Because of the company I am with (pikers), I will exercise extreme caution when trading this tape, which entails going to cash at a drop of a hat.
Today’s sell off is simply too anemic to scare me out, so I bought more. I started a position in JOSB, despite their low-end commercials annoying me to no end. Goldman owns a bunch and there is a large short positions: a recipe for a squeeze.
Into the bell, I am sitting on my hands, keeping faith in Reverend Bernanke’s holy hands to set this fucker on its proper course.
Amen.
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