Jobless Claims Rise, Sending Futures Spiraling Down

June 25th, 2009

When the futures markets kicked off the morning they were rallying hard. The /ES was up to 908 literally in the blink of an eye. Now however, following some very weak jobs numbers, they have fallen out of bed – the /ES is now trading at 892! Talk about a huge reversal in sentiment within a couple of hours.

 

As I have continuously said over and over, jobs is the key to this whole thing. Regardless of how people “feel” about the outlook of the economy, if they do not have a job to pay bills and buy “things” then we are headed lower – point blank. Fortunately for Members and I, we are positioned wonderfully for the run at 880. Who said you couldn’t make money shorting?

 

Here is the chart of the /ES since yesterday’s close. Know you can visually see what happened this morning. Amazing turn around. Look for 890 then 880 as likely support areas today.

 

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