A quick look at volatility in oil, the Euro, VIX, gold and TLT versus the SPY shows TLT has been the Relaxed Man choice. One problem with laying these excitable indices on top of SPY is that it makes SPY seem downright boring, which those of us who play in the steaming cauldron of short term trading know is far from reality.

These are 4 hour bars which tend to deliver a different view of market momentum than daily bars since each 2 bars essentially display 1.5 days.  The 4 hour time frame is more common in 24 hour based futures and FX markets but has some interesting possibilities when used with the equities markets. BTW, the Prognosticator is bullish on SPY in that time frame although we are waiting for the LR7 of the TSF (blue line) to confirm.

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