Apparently, Dear Carl Icahn Is An Options Player...

At least according to Dr. J's article right here.

So I suppose he is the one selling my AAPL calls.  If we don't bounce back tomorrow, some of my AAPLs will have to go into the bin.  

I want part of the pie!  

Note that the Nasdaq was the biggest loser out of all the US market indices, so a shift in sentiment appears evident.  Over the past two days, people seem to have been moving money out of the US markets and into Shanghai and Hong Kong too.  I wonder if I should do anything unilateral there?

We closed below the SPY 25 SMA of 1681.54 and the SPY 50 SMA of 1680.18 today and a close below that tomorrow could portend to more bearishness ahead with the -1.05% drop in the DJT confirming this...


-0.12% SBA
-1.50% Roth IRA

-0.90% DJIA
-1.07% Nasdaq
-0.90% S&P 

+0.18% FTSE
-0.40% Eurofirst
-0.09% Nikkei
+0.68% Shanghai
+1.00% Hang Seng

-1.03% WTI
-0.43% Brent
-0.31% Gold
-1.33% Copper

+0.32% EUR/USD
-0.39% GBP/USD
-0.68% EUR/GBP
-0.39% USD/CHF

0.96 Put / Call Ratio

-1.05% DJT
+6.27% VIX

-1.87% 5-Year US Treasury Notes
-0.76% 10-Year US Treasury Notes

21% Advancing Issues on NYSE                     |   20% Up Volume
76% Declining Issues on NYSE                      |   78% Down Volume
3% Unchanged                                           |   2% Unchanged
103 New Highs   |   50 New Lows 


25% Advancing Issues on Nasdaq                  |   22% Up Volume
72% Declining Issues on Nasdaq                   |   77% Down Volume
3% Unchanged                                           |   1% Unchanged
131 New Highs   |   23 New Lows 
  

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