I wasn’t worried, were you?
Actually, we were worried enough this weekend to revisit “5 Plays that Make 500% if the Market Falls” as we took off our very profitable April 28th disaster hedges in last week’s dip, leaving us net long and just a little nervous going into the weekend. As I mentioned last week, I find myself in the very strange situation during capitulation cycles of having to push back against general Member sentiment as even the most experienced traders tend to fall victim to the combination of market and media manipulation when it’s as relentless as it has been for the last 10 sessions as the markets dropped 7.5%, pretty much without a break.
We first noticed the all-out media attack on the markets way back on June 15th, when CNBC featured the tag-team combination of Pimpco’s Mohaned El-Erian and Nouriel “Doctor Doom” Roubini – one who is pushing his bonds and one who is pushing his book and both of whom can be counted on to spin things as negatively as possible. That very effectively put the breaks on the rally from 9,800 on June 7th to 10,450 (6.6%) on June 15h and ran us back down to lower lows as EVERYTHING that happened since then was put into a negative light. I won’t rehash all the idiotic statements made by Cramer or the Fast Money crew or the rest of the Criminal Narrators Boosting Commodities – it’s either obvious to you or you’ll never see it at this point.
CNBC has been woking the markets over since May 21st, when I first pointed out how negative their coverage had shifted. Over the weekend, we discussed the workings of the game and the players that CNBC work for and, wouldn’t you know it – this morning, timed for lunch in the EU, Dr. Doom Roubini is their very special guest – AGAIN! El-Erian and Gross were kind enough to warn people this morning that “shares are no bargain as the recovery fades” and Barton Biggs is telling anyone who will listen that he liquidated half his tech holdings last week. Funny how they don’t tell you WHEN they are buying or selling, just a mention after the fact to “help you” make the right decision.
“The psychology of the stock market couldn’t be worse, yet the valuation probably couldn’t be a whole lot better,” said Phil Orlando, the New York-based chief equity market strategist at Federated, which manages $350 billion. “Because corporate earnings estimates are rising,…
