Monday, October 13, 2014

Selloff

Markets acting scared.   Big volume, big enough volatility, and late sell off action are classic signs active participants know how to get paid.   Investors online statements starting to show decent losses with lots of October left.  As posted before,  volatility was due to appear without necessarily changing the long term trend.  But now that it has picked up, you have to rely on either deep positive trading performances, such as CoverRisk models have provided, or consider what you can tolerate.

Here is the Q8 on today's close.



AAPL BAC GOOG GS IBM MSFT F PFE
Last 99.81 16.40 533.21 178.77 183.52 43.65 13.54 28.47
Change -0.92 -0.08 -11.28 -1.61 -2.41 -0.38 -0.25 -0.66
YTD 19.66 0.83 -27.15 1.51 -4.05 6.24 -1.89 -2.16
%YTD 24.54% 5.33% -4.84% 0.85% -2.16% 16.68% -12.25% -7.05%