12/22 Morningline

A signal free day. No news is good news?

No new signals on the indicators:

• Blue chips (SPY) open at 111.57, within yesterday's trading range, entered bear mode at close on Dec. 8 (at 109.61)
• Fear index (VIX) 20.39, also within yesterday's range, bull, Dec. 17 (22.51)
• Treasury long bonds (TLT) 90.80 on a 0.40% gap down, bear, Dec. 21 (91.14)
• Gold (GLD) 106.79, bear, Dec. 17 (108.00)
• Oil (USO) 36.25, within yesterday's range, bull, Dec. 16, (36.74)

Currency pairs, no new signals:

• Dollars per euro (EUR/USD) 1.4275 and rising, bear, Dec. 4 (1.49)
• Yen per dollar (USD/JPY) 91.16 and rising, bull, Dec. 15 (89.60)

Holdings, January expiry, no new signals:

• KO, iron condor (p50/-p52.5/-c57.5/c60) 57.15 and rising, bull, Dec. 1 (58.08)
• LVS, covered call (-c16) 15.65 and steady, bull, Dec. 14 (16.31)
  
• SBUX, bull put spread (p22.5/-p24) 23.34 and rising but within yesterday's range, bull, Dec. 18 (23.68)
  
• SMH, bull put spread (p27.5/-p29) 27.71 at the top of yesterday's range and rising, bull, Dec. 21 (27.62)

Apropos nothing serious, Investopedia this morning sent around an email with the subject line, "Enhance your trading experience with The Golden Secret". At first glance, I thought it was viagra spam.

Well, no golden secrets here. Jest plain tradin'.