Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Big, Fat Greek Rally?

Nothing massive, but the negative effect of showing riotous Greeks in the streets over CNBC and Bloomberg seems to be ... waning?

NBG has lifted off its low of 2.67 and fought back like Rocky Balboa (sorry I don't know of any great Greek boxers, real or fictional) and is now at 2.79. Even Citigroup has bounced off its low of 4.04 and is now at 4.16. Goldman Sachs is one of the few stocks in the green, holding its ground at 149.

Meanwhile, FAZ can't seem to get back over 13 and UUP can't seem to get over its earlier intraday high. FAZ, GS and UUP are all up, but the Dow has cut its loss in half.

I unloaded my small position in BIDU at 678 for a sizable, foolishly incurred loss. I should've stuck to my stop loss of 690. Break the rules and the rules break you.

ABK was interesting a few days ago after being brought back into good standing by the NYSE, running from 1.31 to 1.78 (intraday). The Fibonacci retraces were at 1.60, 1.54 and 1.49, if I remember correctly. ABK got down to 1.39 today and is now at 1.44. Attractive, but I'll wait this storm out.

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