Thursday, January 28, 2016

Japan has lit the futures

News of negative interest rates in Japan has launched the futures on the major indexes higher. However, US GDP data is due tomorrow which could put a damper on the move after the open.

Volatility indexes and Put/Call ratios still are problematic and the SKEW remains high. We wait for confirmation before getting more bullish. Today's TRIN closed at 1.78 which is quite high considering we had a decent move up on the day. This bodes well for bullishness tomorrow.

The 1815/1805 put spread is worth about 5 cents now, so it should close out tomorrow at max gain. I will look to open another short put spread for next week on intraday weakness tomorrow.