Market On Open - Friday 11 August

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CPI Digestion

Yesterday at 0830 Eastern the latest CPI print hit the wires.  As is common on 'event' days, volatility was huge in the equity indices, a function of stop-hunting by large account players.  If you had proximate stops a little below or a little above Wednesday's close, there's a good chance those stops were taken out Thursday only for the index to then move past them anyway - on both sides!  It was a good day to be hedged.

In staff personal accounts we opened new long TZA and long SPXU positions early in the day to hedge our long Russell and long S&P500 positions - we alerted our paying Inner Circle subscribers in Slack before the trades were placed, as always.  

We then cashed gains on the short positions late in post-market Thursday, again disclosing beforehand.

This was the logic:

Today at the time of writing (a little after 0600 Eastern) the 10-year yield is down a touch, but not meaningfully so.  At the present time futures are more or less flat.

In staff personal accounts we remain hedged in the Nasdaq and the Dow but unhedged long the Russell and the S&P.  If those two indices start to slip this morning we intend to re-hedge, wait and see what happens.

So, as always, for our paying members only let's now walk through the shorter- and longer-term outlooks for the S&P500, the Nasdaq, the Dow and the Russell.

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