Insipid Tuesday

If a day's trading lacks character, is flat, dry, bland and stale, it's more often then not, a Tuesday. Today was no exception, as evidenced in the following charts; lackluster, irksome, dullsville. Yet in spite of the tiresome, washed out, murky action, there was still enough to make a buck......and write a blog.

SPX - 120 Minute

Above represents two days of the SPX on a 2-hour chart. After Monday's gap-up opening, prices have simply gone horizontal and are not yet threatening the stop/reverse BW levels.

DXD - 120 Minute

The double-beta Dow 30 Bear ETF above shows Monday's gap-down, followed by a slow drift downward through the close Tuesday. Only one bar even threatened the downtrend, but prices ultimately resumed their trend lower into Tuesday's close.

XAU - 120 Minute

Our recent gold picks (AUY, SWC, NG, & ANV) all had good days today, but the bigger cap Gold & Silver Index above basically lingered. An example of good things that can happen when you put a little effort into stock picking instead of merely relying on a broad-based index.

Dueling cliches:

Sell in May and go away;

Never short a dull market.


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