One for the Road

GS seems to have broken out convincingly out of the short-term consolidation pattern. Just int time for the earnings season shenanigans. I've bought a sizeable Bullish call spread.

A Tie that doesn't Bind

I've closed out my moderate position in TIE. The stock is struggling to break out after forming a nice round trip from early June, and has been forming evening stars.

Citi-scrapers

My real work got unseasonably busy (not that I'm complaining), and I had to pretty much stay away from trading for the past few weeks.

I got an alert earlier today that a gap-fill trade I had placed on C (a while ago) had been executed. When I pull up the chart for C, there was this totally eery coincidence.

In the 41 year trading history of Citi & its predecessors, the 2 highest volume (2.1 billion+ shares) days were 5-Aug-2009 & 17-Dec-2009 (today). Now, what are the odds that the trading volumes would be the same? Not approximately same, but EXACTLY same!



I don't know what to make of it, but it definitely makes the hair on my neck stand up!