There is short selling ban in Spain, Italy etc but buying puts seems to be fine. I haven’t traded any ETF’s directly since this started.

Hi Randy, sorry for posting my issue here in the comments. I am a new subscriber and everything was working fine until today at 2am. I got more than 1 thousand emails nonstop all the way back from 2013. It stopped at this movement, was that intended to happen or do I have some technical problem with my account?
Thank you

Silver caught a bid today. Wondering if its a bottom or a whipsaw.

Member @dfogart had the most logical reason for the relative strength in natural gas in recent weeks with the plunge in crude oil: https://rightsideofthechart.com/analysis-of-stocks-bonds-euro-us-dollar-3-9-20/#comment-10192

I do plan to compile a list of long-term investments/trend trade ideas when the time is right but I haven’t started that process yet as, at least for now, I believe that we are only in the very early stages of the first bear market in over a decade. Assuming that assumption is correct, then diverting resources (my time) to looking for entry levels on long-term holds that are months or even years away from bottoming will only take away from searching for opportunities to profit in the foreseeable future.

Just as all ships are lifted in a rising tide (bull market), all ships tend to drop in a falling tide. Proof of that can be found by pulling the long-term charts of any of the bluest of blue-chip stocks or the market-leading FAAMGs stocks from Oct 2007- March 6, 2009 (the last bear market). With that being said, I will share any standout long-term investing opps if & as I come across them, whether or not they appear to offer objective entries at the time or after a continued drop to a specific level(s).

Will do. I’m finally starting to warm back up to the miners after being cold on them for a while (since they tend to get sold down with stock market during strong sell-offs as they are, in fact, stocks, not gold or commodities). That, plus the fact the charts of gold weren’t so hot recently with those divergent highs but now that I’m bullish on gold again plus leaning towards a potentially explosive rally in the stock market this week, the miners could be poised to run. I’ll post some analysis on GDX & some of the big miners like NEM tomorrow but as of now, I can say that I’d rather be long than short NEM for the foreseeable future unless the charts change.

People here are in super panic mode after SF Mayor’s announcement that SF will require people to stay home except for essential needs effective midnight today.

If the market takes another major leg down, can you share some of the companies that are good for long term investment or what you usually look for when you search for these companies?

Thanks again Randy.

I don’t know. If I had or get the time, I would/will try to read up on some of the proposals floating around but I’m not sure if a short-selling ban would included the inverse/short ETFs or only shorting individual stocks & ETFs direction (via short-selling, not buying/gong long inverse ETFs).
Regardless of the technicalities of exactly how a short-selling ban would work, I think the bigger impact would be the psychological impact that it would have as it would most likely spark at least an initial strong rally in the market and if that proves to be the case, it obviously wouldn’t be good for SQQQ.

Yes, I did my best to differentiate between my very near-term outlook & positioning (long/bullish) vs. my intermediate to longer-term outlook (bearish, more downside to at least those QQQ 143.50ish & SPY 212.50ish targets.
Never in history has any bull or bear market gone straight up or down from start to finish. There always have been & always will be very sharp & powerful counter-trend moves along the way, even more so in bear markets than bull markets (very swift & strong bear market rallies due to various factors including but not limited to short-covering).
I decided to close out the QQQ short trade as after extensive review of the charts, I came to the conclusion that the risk of a potentially strong & swift oversold/bear market rally, including the potential for being caught positioned short with an increased chance of a very large gap up against the position, was just too high to warrant remaining short to try and capture what I think is only about another 5-8% downside potential before a significant rally.
That analysis may prove to be completely wrong tomorrow but as an ETF, there is no way to limit the potential give-back in profits should the market gap up very strong tomorrow. Not only do I factor in the risk vs. reward potential on every new trade that I take but I am also continually evaluating the continually changing R/R on every existing position that I am in & in the case of QQQ, I believe we reached the point today where the risk of being caught in a sudden & large move against the trade just wasn’t worth holding onto the position for the potential gains in the near-term (i.e.- the remainder of this week). I will most likely be looking to reposition for another swing/trend short in QQQ if & when the time is right.