Market On Open - Monday 13 November

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Animal Spirits vs. Moody's

Friday was quite the day. Personally I started the day fully hedged the indices, having applied the short hedges late Thursday in the light of the Powell speech hitting the market. I sold the short hedges (we use the 3x short index ETFs for hedging) for a modest but worthwhile gain early Friday, than sat back whilst the market ripped upwards and didn't look back. It's not every day one gets both the short and the long side right on all four indices (!) in the same day - so when it happens, time to celebrate, or at least be amused. Right after the close, along comes Moody's with a US debt downgrade, and it remains to be seen how this impacts markets today. Futures have barely reacted overnight - NQ futures are down barely a third of a percent - but New York equity trading hours will tell us the full story.

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