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The Boring Data Behind My Biotech Short Thesis

First off, I loved posting this savage entry earlier today–it was a wholesome gathering of words, imagery, and music for the Sunday audience.  But I figured do a dry follow up to support the colorful case made.  Below I list the supporting data, enjoy.

MODEL AND CONTEXTUAL CASE:

  • The consistently wrong S&P model—fading my S&P model has been a winning trade 76.1% of the time (46 samples). The model is long S&P going into the week.
  • Exodus Hybrid Oversold: Tuesday market close will mark day 10 of the cycle.
  • Two out of the last three weeks saw the Utilities sector lead the way.
  • Rose Colored Sunglasses—this short signal is 10-for-13 and signaled today. Here is every past instance, on the NASDAQ, with boxes drawn from Friday-to-Friday on the 5-day signal:

RCS_Signals_11162014-10042015

WHY BIOTECH?

  • Last week, despite IBB (primary biotech ETF) being up 1.71%, there were 67 biotech stocks down -10% or more. There were nearly 150 biotech stocks down -10% or more the previous week.
  • The biotech industry has the highest price-to-sales ratio:
price-to-sales_sorted_10042015SOURCE: Exodus Market Intelligence
  • We are in a seasonal safe haven for shorting biotech:
biotechSeasonality_10042015SOURCE: Exodus Market Intelligence

THE SETUP AND PLAN

  • Two IBB charts, for risk management purposes.  First the daily, then the hourly:

IBB_10042015 IBB_10042015_zoomedIn

THE VEHICLE

BIS

 

 

 

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8 comments

  1. earl

    He’s a never-ending pasta bowl of Exodus magic.

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  2. skwebby

    so, a general market reversal with biotech as the fall guy?

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  3. Option Addict

    Not sure if you noticed, but on Wednesday there was a crazy shift that day. I had twenty stocks down 4% or more, and had 130 up 4% or more….just on that day itself. That was the day after the first positive divergence that occurred on Tuesday.

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    • Raul3

      Interesting, I did not. I’m overdue to overhaul some of my stats–I plan to incorporate a bunch of breadth data when I do. So far I’m just using it from an observational perspective.

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  4. Sloop

    GREAT ALL MY MAN!!!

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  5. Sloop

    FUCK!!! I mean CALL

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