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Our focus is on the development of proprietary geodesic models that characterize the behavior of leveraged long/short ETFs in pairs trades using first principles of Hamilton-Lagrange-Euler mechanics. Because of tracking errors & daily compounding phenomena, equal weightings of leveraged ETFs in a pairs trade are virtually never 50-50. Daily data & graphics will show subscribers where neutral pair weightings have moved along the path of the pairs geodesic thereby providing multiple market direction & re-balance indicators.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

SDS-SSO Model Update - July 15, 2009

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Today's Commentary

as expected with the explosive move up of the S&P 500 index, the model now indicates a mild bullish bias. the erratic behavior of the index over the last 10 trading days or so has been mirrored by the model with several flip-flop market direction change indications. this is usually a sign of indecisive interest in the market. are we going up or down? that kind of thing. though the market exploded higher today, it's still unclear to me how many legs this upswing has. but for now, the trend is certainly upward.

the yellow square dots in the geodesic charts represents parameter coordinate movement during this upward motion in the index. the direction of movement is away from the apex out to the end of the lower portion of the path. the scatter plot of the parameters 1st order time rate of change shows a coordinate move into the 4th quandrant which means the amplitude of the wave change is positive but angular velocity is negative. the full implication of this is not clear other than the run up in the index has slightly different characteristics. apparently there are forces pulling the index to equilbrium (back toward the apex) or this is a transient effect of the change in market direction change. it's more like the latter i fell but we'll see.

hopefully readers have some cash to put to work incase this optimism becomes euphoric. it's not clear if the index will pop tomorrow as high as it did today or at all. but more key earnings reports in the next few days are likely to beat wall street forecasts.
best regards,
mike james

Managing Member
Equity Informatics, LLC
phone:302-220-3864

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