What's surprises me is that the XLF and XHB have actually outperformed the SPY over the last 3 months, when IndyMac, Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, Merrill, AIG, WaMu, Wachovia all lost their lives. What else could seriously go wrong, besides the economy spiraling into a black hole. The XLF was up 9.92% and the XHB was up 27.8% on the SPY during the last 3 months! How crazy is that?? Shouldn't hedge funds be making those returns on the S&P and not sector index funds?
Looking specifically at the XLF, it needs to clear above the $20 support level with strength to catch a major bid, and it needs to break above the downward trend. Plus you can see two capitulated lows on those volume spikes (between $15-20). That could in fact be a double bottom but it seriously depends on this bail out, which will unfreeze the banks and bring liquidity back to main street. If the bailout fails again confidence will not be restored and we'll probably see another volume spike to the downside.
The XHB has been in the $15-25 range since last August. It hit all time lows ($15) this July, and since rallied to $20 even during the September mortgage/bank massacre. It looks like there's a floor between $15-20, and again if the bill passes it will provide liquidity to the mortgage market as the tax payers scoop up the worthless mortgage paper from the banks, which would allow builders to work off existing inventory and raise cash.
These last charts show investor sentiment indicators of XLF. The chart below shows XLF Implied Volatility spiking recently. It's implying a big move ahead and I'm pretty sure volatility is being bid up in anticipation of the House vote. Either way once the news is out IV will be sold and the XLF will move in the appropriate direction. The XLF put/call open interest ratio is at 0.82 which is bullish bias and you can see the open interest configuration below with the large chunks of out of the money calls open. Plus short interest has been breaking down since June. So it will be interesting to see what happens here, and hope for the best.
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Greenspan Says Markets to Recover as Investors Return (Update1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=ax1QCC1nFsjM&refer=home
"Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said financial markets and the economy will recover ``sooner rather than later'' from the worst turmoil in seven decades.
``Trust will eventually reemerge as investors dip hesitantly back into the marketplace,'' Greenspan said today in a speech at Georgetown University's law school in Washington. ``From that point, history tells us, financial and economic revival sets in. I suspect it will be sooner rather than later.''
Greenspan urged lawmakers last week to back ``extensive'' measures to tackle the worst financial crisis since the 1930s and head off a recession. The U.S. Senate passed a $700 billion financial-market rescue package yesterday loaded with inducements for the House of Representatives to approve the measure following its rejection of an earlier version Sept. 29."
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Sell Signal of the Day, Greenspan Edition
http://seekingalpha.com/article/98441-sell-signal-of-the-day-greenspan-edition
I like you're blog. Looks like that 1000 point pop never really panned out, a lot of longs losing money here with so much confusion and intervention, hedge funds included http://www.marketfolly.com/2008/10/affluential-hedge-funds-suffer-in.html..
I like you're blog. Looks like that 1000 point pop never really panned out, a lot of longs losing money here with so much confusion and intervention, hedge funds included http://www.marketfolly.com/2008/10/affluential-hedge-funds-suffer-in.html..
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