Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Mild Panic Alert!

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While I am not going to go into any details on this indicator right now it is a "real money" indication that I've constructed to measure the amount of fear or panic taking place in the market.  Currently it is showing similar fear levels to 4-9-12, 3-6-12, and 8-1-12.  Those all led to rebounds in the market.

But you can see from the chart that it is possible for panic to move up quite a bit to reach even the levels in mid May of this year.  

Any bullish reversal bar at this point should be respected for an upside rebound, but it is a situation like I have mentioned before, where we are probably pretty close in time to a significant low, but we may see some rapid price changes in a few days before the low occurs.

Given the pattern at play in the market right now, I've mentioned that we may see a rapid move back below the June 2012 lows.  So unless we see a real nice set-up develop on the long side here, I would play this by tightening stops on short positions, and then using any rebound as a possible re-shorting opportunity.


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