Yes, I could not agree more. .It certainly is unproductive and juvenile.

I welcome & encourage questions, healthy discussions & alternative viewpoints in the comment sections. All opinions, including hitting the dislike button for a legitimate reason, are welcome here, but this seems to be something else, with nearly every question or comment in this thread disliked today.

I haven’t seen this kind of apparently indiscriminate disliking of comments before, so please LMK if you have a grievance you want to air out & we can discuss it. Let’s keep this a productive, value-added, & civil place to ask questions & share our thoughts, trade ideas, strategies, & trading plans while respecting all viewpoints, even those that might not align with our own.

Thx- Randy Phinney

Here’s that June 2025 trade setup on REMX.

Glad you asked (and for the life of me, can’t understand why someone thumbed down your question, but I just liked it, so that negated the down vote).

REMX rallied 160% from the long entry I posted (as a setup, just before the buy signal/breakout triggered) back in July. All 6 of my targets were hit & exceeded, but REMX appears to have come full circle now & I’m about ready to run it the other way (short). REMX sell signal to come on a solid break and/or daily close below the uptrend line on this daily chart, while one could also wait for a close above the comparable uptrend line on the weekly chart that I’ve also included below. For reference, I also included that long setup I posted back on June 10th, shortly before the breakout & 84% profit to T6.

Again, thx for bringing it up as the rare earths had fallen off my radar recently & now looked primed as a short setup.

Cool…agreed

https://www.tradingview.com/x/MQo7jSwz/

Just checked out PDBA-says 2 holdings – one is US Govt bonds? Other not sure-starts with Cayman? It’s definitely not showing agricultural comms- if someone can check this out too? Thx

Thx for pointing PDBA out, I wasn’t aware of it. I’ve had DBA as a core investment (long-term trend position) for the past several yrs now, but I use it (as with most ETNs that kick out K1’s) in my IRAs & kids Coverdell ESA vs. the taxable accounts, where K1s are a royal PITA.

I did just glance at the chart & noticed that PDBA significantly outperformed DBA off that major reaction low at the start of 2024 (+40% to the Feb ’25 highs in DBA & + 31% to where it is now from that same point vs. $37% & + 21% over the same periods for PDBA).

As such, I’m going to add it to my commodities ETF/ETN watch-list & I’ll try to keep an eye on the performance going forward to see if it starts to close that gap of underperformance. Might also have to do with the specific holdings between the two (most likely, unless they track the same index…need to do some DD on both). Thx again.

No, I’ve spoken to that in recent videos but glad to reiterate: With the situation in the Middle East, crude oil & nat gas are just too volatile & more importantly, unpredictable right now. The technicals (chart) can & often do get plowed right over with the constantly changing fundamentals such as random & unpredictable (SPR) strategic petroleum reverse releases, opening or closing of the Strait of Hormuz or any of the other key shipping lanes, escalation/de-escalation of the situation (war), etc..

Pure gambling without favorable & well-defined odds, IMO, at least at this time. If & when that changes, I will LYK.

Better fish to fry elsewhere right now, such as adding to index & sector shorts/$VIX longs on today’s bounce, with the dumbass market rallying on bad GDP & PCE prints because participants probably think that means a higher chance of rate cuts, which only further plays into the stagflation scenario, IMO. (G-luck cutting rates much more with $100+ crude).

I also added to swing shorts on the miners & a bit more on silver (short) as the $USD continues to look bullish to me (and the metals, esp. silver & GDX, bearish).

Like i said earlier… my playbook is for a good size move up tomorrow imo…

Yes maybe the day but don’t take the bull trap.

Homebuilders look like $h!t, like just about every other economically sensitive sector right now. However, ITB is a more concentrated bet on the builders, with XHB more diversified with peripheral companies such as paint, HVAC, furniture, Home Depot, & Lowes, etc.. Their website will show you the holdings & I added the top 5 to these charts below, along with the recent & next (pending) sell signals & price targets.

Geo…Any chance you could post your thoughts on next days market before 4pm ?