As we expected on Friday morning, the EU stress tests were not good.
My comment to Members at 3:41 on Friday, as we had an “incredible” (as in NOT credible) rally into the close was: “Notice how we went down on very heavy volume but we went up on two massive spikes – one at 2:45 and on at 3:05 and the rest was just suckers being reeled in to follow the move who got sold right back into. I’m still liking SQQQ, Aug $22/23 bull call spread is .55 now and you can sell the $21 puts for .50 for net .05 on the $1 spread. LOL – CNBC is surprised. Bill says “Hey, look at that, a rally in the last 20 minutes!” It’s only surprising when there isn’t one…”
After the bell, we discussed the fact that you can still trade the index puts after hours and the QQQ weekly (7/22) puts at .70 looked attractive too. That left us a bit bearish going into the weekend (as planned) so last night (yes, Sunday) I sent out a 10:16 Alert to Members to with trade ideas to go long on the Futures (Down, S&P, Nasdaq and Russell) while taking the short position on oil (/CL) at $97.50 and gasoline (/RB) at $3.15. By midnight we had our highs for the morning and at 2:49 am I commented it was time for the 3am trade (bullish on markets as the Dollar pulls back) and we set our stops at 4:46 and went back to bed and the market topped out 20 minutes later and gave us yet another bullish reload back at our levels – NOW, at 8am.
What were the bullish levels? Today there were for futures crosses above 12,375 on Dow futures (/YM), 1,306 on the S&P futures (/ES), 2,345 on the Nas (/NQ) and 623 on the RUT (/TF). We’re not to proud to make the same play over and over and over again – as long as it keeps working, right? This is the great thing about futures trading – it lets you make little adjustments to your portfolio LONG before the rest of the market is in play. Had the markets gone straight down – we would not have needed to chase as we took the aggressive puts into the close but, as they found a floor –…
