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The markets rebounded today, as though Greece's problems have been solved - happy days are here again. SPX gained $9 to close at $1353 while RUT closed up $9 at $796. Trading volume fell off with 2.6 billion shares of the S&P 500 stocks trading; trading volume dropped 16% on both the NYSE and NASDAQ. The key areas to watch on SPX are $1340 and $1375. If SPX breaks through $1340, we could see a serious correction; on the other hand, if SPX breaks the recent highs at $1375, then the bullish trend has resumed. If we compare RUT and SPX, the damage on RUT is far from erased and RUT has lagged behind SPX of late. RUT will have to trade back to $810 before it is even back in the trading range it occupied for most of February.

ADP's employment report moved up once again to 216k new jobs for February, up from the previous report of +173k. Could this be a prediction of an improved jobs report Friday?

My Mar RUT iron condor at 730/740 and 860/870 stands at a P/L of +$3,150 with delta = +$27 and theta = +$116. The Apr condor stands at a P/L of +580 with delta = +$30 and theta = +$50. On Friday, we will apply the Two Sigma Rule to our Mar position. As it now stands, we may have a rare event where both spreads are over two standard deviations OTM. Has this market resumed a sideways trading range pattern as it had late last year? Or is a nasty correction about to begin? Or will the bulls take charge once again? Who knows? All I can do is trade what the market gives me.