Thursday, January 8, 2009

Vix, Yen and TLT -- vix running into resistance

Vix ran into resistance at its upper 10 day BB today, while the Yen strengthened sharply. TLT was more or less flat for the day, not following the Yen higher.

Vix was setting up a nice reversal pattern to the upside with yesterday gap up and big white candle -- today's candle is more uncertain, not quite a bearlish shooting star, but not quite a bullish white-black harami. Same story with SPX.

The Yen direction is also up in the air -- in isolation the past few days look very bullish, but taken in context with the move down from the highs, this latest moves, retraces 50% of the drop, and stopped at resistance.



Let's see how the markets react to the payroll numbers tomorrow -- for the past year, tyhe market has sold off the day payroll anticipating weak numbers. But this year there was no sell-off (although perhaps Wedensday's down counts?)

From Wall Street Journal's Marketbeat Blog
The Pre-Jobs Selloff
Month Covered Dow Change Jobs Change
June -166.77 -100,000
July -205.66 -67,000
August -344.65 -127,000
September -348.22 -403,000
October -442.48 -320,000
November -205.45 -533,000

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