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SP Daily Chart Into End of Second Quarter: Not With a Bang But a Whimper

SP Daily Chart Into End of Second Quarter: Not With a Bang But a Whimper

Courtesy of JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN

US equities went out of the second quarter on new lows. 

There was a surprising amount of tape painting in individual stocks, that was almost funny at times. It is hard to hide behind the tape in these thin markets. I suppose that if I were fund manager carrying a large short position, I might want to artificially drive the price down to make things look better as I closed my books on the quarter. 

The junior miners in particular are a real hoot to watch with their wide spreads, large short interests, openly aggressive naked short selling, and thin volumes. It takes a special kind of masochism to trade anything on the pink sheets, much less Canadian listed stocks. 

The Non-Farm Payrolls report will be out on Friday, July 2. The consensus is for a loss of 100,000 jobs. The ADP report came in this week with a gain of 13,000 jobs, which was well below expectations of 61,000. A recovery in the US economy is an illusion.

It is typical Wall Street arrogance when they say that ‘no one will be there to even hear the number, much less trade it.’ As I recall, Asia and Europe will be open for business on Friday and Monday. But some might imagine them to be junior traders, taking their orders and queues from New York and London as well.

I am still running the long gold / short stocks hedge, with the additon of a slight short in the long Bond which is probably anticapatory of a decline in July unless we get another leg down in equities that has legs.

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