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Since last update in March 2011, quite a lot has happened. The global news empire is in trouble, Euro zone problems escalated, US Debt ceiling issues are still on the table and generally the earnings have surprised on the upside. With all of these grey swans and uncertainty, the markets have responded quite well to the price levels charted earlier in March 2011 issue. Regardless of how the news on TV may appear to be, market sentiment is not at extremes, as can be seen via AAII sentiment readings.

A number of Black Swan events have been ignored / killed by the markets (for the time being). Apart from Nikkei, there was no signficant follow through of selling in other markets, and dips have been bought hand over fists. Also, there have been news of significant buying of Japanese equities by western investments. Perhaps, this was among the the main reason for strong buying of Yen on 16 March 2011, rather than pure speculation or repatriation (Yen surge was later fought by G7 intervention).

Several trades were triggered based on previous analysis of January newsletter, details can be found below.

HO HO HO! Santa Claus rally did happen (again!!!). Perhaps, this seasonal phenomenon is really worth playing. Following the previous analysis in November, technically the markets were carving out bullish structure across the board with the fundamental backdrop of QE2 – therefore a few conditional (bullish/reversal candles at key levels) calls were made, which went down successfully. However, at this juncture probability increases for sizeable pullbacks and corrections in risk assets.

Risk is rising higher and higher, owing to mid term elections and Quantitative Easing (QE) resulting in breakouts across
the board. Even the late coming financials have broken the pattern and now pulling back to retrace some gains. The
overall outlook is bullish – however, in the short-term, the market is aggressively overbought and a setback albeit milder
one is on cards.

What a rally, the RISK is ON – I got two words: SHORT SQUEEZE! As mentioned in previous June analysis that a close above 10288 on Dow will open room for further rally. There is still a 2% to 5% more room for risk to go up, before stopping for a breath and then to reverse.