Neutral. Holding longs and shorts.
My summation signal is neutral. It could turn down today.
My composite trend signal turned down on Friday.
I failed to honor some stops on Friday and should be short now. My bad.
I have short setups in play but they need some rally to trigger.
I feel like a batter that watched as the fastball came right over the plate.
As a turtle with slow moving signals, days like Friday will leave me behind.
My setups will sell rallies.
There is a chance I'll get left behind.
I have some tools to deal with that, but until things develop further, the reward to risk profile says wait.
Even if the setups trigger, I can't rule out a whipsaw or even some prolonged consolidation or even a reversal of the reversal.
That said the trend is now down in my book, though I would have more confidence in that view if the NASDAQ and R2K joined the Dow and SPX by braking down more acutely.
A lot of long only managers don't like to cash up in January. It has been a bad idea historically. So, they'll assess and make decisions following the monthly close (and I think I am slow...).
So, February could be even more interesting than January is turning out to be.