12pm update – lunchtime chop

US equities remain in minor chop mode, with most indexes fractionally higher. USD is +0.1% at 100.73, which isn’t helping Gold.

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VIX’60min

Summary

The micro chop is increasingly painfully tedious.
I don’t even have a bottle of Chardonnay on ’emergency standby’.
Tea and biscuits will have to suffice.


notable gold ETF: GLD, 60min

Choppy, if leaning a little weak, with hourly momentum turning negative. Chatter from the ‘kooks’ is curious to read, but this market appears set for churn into year end.

notable Dow component: BA

Boeing just cooling back, after one of the most insane multi-month ascents I’ve ever seen in a Dow component. Today’s break of the 10MA is significant, and the cautious will have been stopped out.

notable strength: PENN

S/t hysteria on news some hedge fund might get a director or two appointed.

notable miner: GOLD

Miners increasingly weak.
The more cautious will merely look to buy on the flip side of New Years Eve.